Germain SIGETY

Germain SIGETY

Head of Engineering

Personal Profile

Building IT applications for 20 years, I lead product squads to deliver efficient, reliable and maintainable products. Using open source and cloud components to release quickly and simply. Domain Driven Design is my vision. Micro services are my motivation. Agility is my rhythm. Unleash people do well their work is my credo.

Step by step; we solve problems one after another : focused.

collective intelligence; the only good reason to go to work.

Work Experience

Head of engineering at Figaro Classifieds

Aug. 2019 - present

Managing 5 development teams (25 people) that release features for 3 real estate marketplaces :
- https://immobilier.lefigaro.fr (7M visits /month)
- https://proprietes.lefigaro.fr (french leader in luxury)
- https://www.explorimmoneuf.com (promoters)

From stock imports to frontends, with analytics and backoffice, I'm servant leader and organizer of IT delivery, for sales, B2B and products teams :
- HR / managment
- architecture
- reporting to CEO
- technical roadmap

By a very close work with product staff, our agile teams release features every days. We advocate a lean culture across the company.

key points
  • 25 people
  • 700k classifieds
  • 5M pages displayed per day
  • 1.5M mails per day

Tech lead at Rakuten France

Jan. 2015 - july 2019

I led two redoubtable scrum teams to build and maintain functionalities dedicated to sellers : product creation and catalog, sales and shipping management, sellers payments, etc. For the sake of performance and maintainability, I drive teams to implement elegant software architecture and clean code, and use state-of-art technology. I struggle to make IT embrace micro services and cloud architecture, in order to boost our delivery capabilities. I spread DDD practices to struggle complexity of the marketplace.

key points
  • 4 developers, 2 product owners and QA team
  • 200 millions product catalog
  • 40 000 sales per day
  • 300 millions pages per month

audiencepay.com

Jan. - Apr. 2019

Side projet : Development of cashless payment native mobile application for merchants, with CRM and fidelisation.

docwin.fr

Jan - Dec. 2018

Side projet :Technical conception, development and functional guidance for a native mobile application providing medical pre-diagnostic for patients, and direct dialog between patients and doctors: live chat, document upload.

prelevement-source.fr

Jul. - Oct. 2018

Personal projet : release a website for french ratepayers in order to help them to understand a achieve their transition of income tax payment directly from their wages.

BI consultant at Smile

Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2014

Analyzing customers needs and handling BI projects : building and feeding reliable data warehouse, deploying and customizing Java/J2EE reporting tools for analysis.

Project manager at Smile

Nov. 2009 - Jul. 2013

I worked as project manager in Smile J2EE business unit. I led the development of a large variety of websites; from intranets/portals to e-commerce websites. I was responsible for analysis of needs, choice of solutions, scheduling, reporting to customers and managing the development teams.

Java engineer at INRIA (Institut national de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

Sept. 2007 - Oct. 2009

Hired by my master director, I participated in the development of Proactive framework: an open source library that builds and deploys distributed applications. I especially worked on the scheduler of this software suite.

Software developer at Capgemini

Sept. 2005 - Aug. 2007

Software developer for GSIT infrastructure ; the french banks exchange network.

Key Skills

  • Team leading / Agility
  • Architecure / Microservices
  • Angular / React / Rxjs
  • Java / Node / Golang
  • MySQL / Postgres / Oracle
  • Couchbase
  • GCP / Amazon Beanstalk / Heroku

older projects

www.belambra.fr

Belambra

project manager 2012-2013

I led the development of a new e-commerce website for the company Belambra : In 2012 Belambra entrusted my team with the development of its new Website. I was responsable for the specification, planification, team leading (5 pers), and customer reporting. BtoC and BtoB features (companies, travel agencies). The new website increased its sales by 20%.

key points
  • 700 man-days project
  • 30% of sales done online
  • 10 000 users accounts
  • up to 60 000 visits per day

Luz group

project manager / BI consultant 2013-2014

In 2013 I took on the managment and development of Luz group BI project. Luz is a buying group for opticians. We have developped BI Infrastructure and tools for the reporting and analysis of the whole activity of Luz company ; sales, customer assets, customers relationship, services subscription.

www.regioncentre.fr

Region Centre

project manager 2011-2012

I led redesign of Region centre's main websites. My team was in charge of revamping 12 websites ; regional main portal, intranet for secondary schools... The challenge was to build a common set for multiple websites, renew the design of the Region centre's digital presence, by giving a strong input for the integration of photos, media, social networks links, all the while being compliant to french web content accessibility laws (RGAA silver).

www.promo-land.com

Promoland (extra project)

architect, POC developer

In automn 2011, I was put in charge of the development of the backend part of a prototype for the startup company Promoland. Promoland is an Iphone application that offers discounts for snapshots of supermarket receipts. I defined the IT architecture, developed the backend, specified exchanges with mobile phones.

Education

University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis

Masters degree in computer sciences and telecommunications

University of Versailles Saint Quentin

Bachelor in computer science

Hobbies

Running, music (saxophone, flute and piano player) ... raising two kids ...