Performing Remote

Founder

PixMob

Director of Engineering

Nicolas Cava

I'm looking for a long-term relationship with a distributed SaaS business. I'm available right now for full-time permanent employment.

I can speak English or French and work from anywhere.

My expertise:

- Engineering management
- People management
- Strategic planning
- Project execution
- Systems and processes
- Distributed work
- Culture building
- Incident management
- Hiring and onboarding talents

Please connect with me and discuss how we can win together.

Engineering Manager

Zendesk

Zendesk is a large public enterprise with 5500+ employees distributed worldwide. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, US.

Industry: customer experience and instant messaging tech.

Responsible for:

→ Lead distributed software teams of up to 14 people.
→ Build core messaging capabilities for Zendesk products.
→ Contribute to the high-end conversational CX strategy.
→ Provide the API, conversation store, message routing, and orchestration pipeline.
→ Provide all the logic and integrations to operate in social channels.
→ Lead weekly tech talks.

Tech stack:

→ React
→ Node.js, Express, Ruby
→ MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka
→ Terraform, Istio, AWS
→ Spinnaker

PixMob was a bootstrapped company with 80+ employees distributed worldwide in the event industry. The company was headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Industry: event management tech.

Responsible for:

→ Led the software engineering department composed of 10 employees across two continents.
→ Contributed to human-centric experiences, light shows, and corporate event activities.
→ Built edge computing, cloud computing, and high-availability data processing.
→ Built products on top of cutting-edge hardware infrastructure.
→ Supported decentralized authority and execution freedom.
→ Built an async-first culture with an emphasis on writing communication and documentation.
→ Organized 4-week development cycles with shaping, betting, and execution.
→ Provided individual development, coaching, and connections building.
→ Co-led a successful M&A by Bizzabo.

Tech stack:

→ React, React Native, Swift, Kotlin
→ Python
→ MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch
→ Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Google Cloud
→ GitLab CI/CD

Swile

Swile was a VC-funded fintech startup (30M Series A, 70M Series B) with 300 employees distributed in France. The company was headquartered in Montpellier, France.

Industry: fintech.

Responsible for:

→ Led a distributed software team of 10 employees.
→ Built a B2B2C product with banking features, mobile, and web payments.
→ Built bank accounts, transfers, credit card management, and P2P payments.
→ Also built money pots, KYC and compliance, and charity donations.
→ Provided autonomy, ownership, decentralized authority, and execution freedom.
→ Built an async-first culture with a focus on written communication and documentation.
→ Provided individual development, coaching, and connections building.

Tech stack:

→ React, TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift
→ Ruby on Rails, Node.js, GraphQL
→ PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis
→ AWS, Confluent
→ CircleCI, Bitrise

Swile was a VC-funded fintech startup (30M Series A, 70M Series B) with 300 employees distributed in France. The company was headquartered in Montpellier, France.

Industry: fintech.

Responsible for:

→ Member of a cross-functional and distributed software team.
→ Led a distributed team of 10 employees part-time.
→ Built a B2B2C product for employees and administrators in SMB and mid-market.
→ Built meal voucher credits, credit card orders, and employee management.
→ Also built onboarding, off-boarding, bank accounts, and credit card payments.

Tech stack:

→ React, JavaScript, TypeScript
→ Ruby on Rails
→ PostgreSQL, Redis
→ Heroku, AWS
→ Semaphore

Senior Software Engineer

Maple Inside

Maple Inside was a funded startup studio (2M seed) with 20 employees distributed worldwide. The company was headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Industry: fintech and adtech.

Responsible for:

→ Co-founded the company with former colleagues.
→ Led a distributed team of 10 employees as head of product development.
→ Bootstrapped business ideas by building MVPs quickly to reach market pull.
→ Profitable products were incorporated into companies with hired founders.
→ Built products in the adtech, sharing economy, and fintech industries.
→ We grew the business to 1M ARR.
→ Had to close operations in 2018 as we consumed our runway.
→ A few companies emerged from the studio and are still in business.

Tech stack:

→ React, React Native, TypeScript
→ Node.js, GraphQL, Python
→ MySQL, Redis
→ AWS, Google Cloud
→ CircleCI

Co-Founder & CTO

PetalMD

PetalMD was a VC-funded healthtech startup with 100 employees distributed in Canada. The company was headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Industry: healthtech.

Responsible for:

→ Member of a cross-functional software team.
→ Built a B2B product for physicians and healthcare facilities.
→ Also built online management, communication, and planning tools for physicians.

Tech stack:

→ JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Angular
→ Ruby on Rails
→ PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Pusher
→ Heroku
→ Jenkins

Crakmedia

Crakmedia was a bootstrapped adtech startup with 250 employees distributed in Canada. The company was headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Industry: adtech.

Responsible for:

→ Led a front-end team of 10 employees.
→ Built an affiliate marketing platform supporting billions of daily hits.
→ Also built media buying, advertising platforms, traffic analytics, and offer management.
→ Also built big data processing and data science software.
→ Refactored a huge monolithic to a microservices architecture.
→ Provided individual development, coaching, and connections building.
→ Designed software architecture and technology strategies.
→ Led product analytics and application performance initiatives.

Tech stack:

→ JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux
→ Node.js, PHP, Symfony, Express
→ MySQL, Redis, Vertica
→ AWS
→ Bamboo

Front-end Technical Lead

I help remote leaders who are overwhelmed by their workload leave chaos by empowering people and improving self-discipline through the Performing Remote OS. | Fractional Engineering Leader, Coach

I'm a passionate people-first Engineering Manager with 12y+ of experience leading distributed teams for renowned SaaS businesses like Zendesk and Swile in AMER and EMEA.

I'm also a social entrepreneur who cares about positively impacting people and society. My personality type is ESTJ-A, and I'm a systems thinker with strong organizational and self-discipline skills.

My core values are contribution, growth, discipline, justice, transparency, and resilience. I'm also a father, gamer, remote work advocate, traveler, content creator, and developer, which I consider my identity stack.

My backstory is that I burned out in 2018, and remote work saved my life. Since then, I have strived to become the best remote leader I can be for my people and show that we can build exceptional distributed businesses by putting people first and providing opportunities for anyone from anywhere. I also share my journey in public with vulnerability and authenticity to help as many people as possible.

I post daily about remote leadership and personal development. I'm also building the Performing Remote OS, a system I use as a remote leader.

My credentials:

- 12+ years in distributed SaaS businesses in AMER and EMEA
- 10+ years as a successful leader of distributed engineering teams
- Dealt with 525% employee growth over 2 years
- Supervised 76 talents across 4 continents
- Co-founded and scaled a startup studio to 80K+ MRR in 3 years
- 94K+ paying customers in a B2B product
- Led a technical due diligence for a $13.5M M&A
- 6000+ workers supported in the Digital First Crew at Zendesk
- Led competitive virtual gaming teams of up to 40 individuals for 5 years
- 12+ years as a remote worker

Where to start:

- Follow me to receive my daily content
- Connect and DM me for more
- Book a free discovery call: https://www.nicolascava.com/discovery
- Send me an email: hello@nicolascava.com

Amaury de Thibault

Stakha

Connecting talents with early-stages & scale-up companies

Founder 

Streamroot

At Streamroot, we’re working to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing the internet today: the explosion of video traffic. Our goal is to redesign the way we deliver video online, to create more robust, cost-effective infrastructures, and to touch millions of internet users by bringing quality video to every corner of the world.

We need you! 
Software Engineer P2P & SDK (C++)
Lead Software Engineer Dashboard (ReactJS)
Product Manager Dashboard
Technical Product Manager

https://streamroot.io/careers/


Mail : amaury@streamroot.io
Phone : +33 7 61 75 40 66

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager (Freelance)

Ledger

Ledger is a security company that provides to its clients' hardware & software products for protecting their cryptocurrencies asset. Thanks to our expertise in security & blockchain, we also offer IoT solutions to our clients.

As a Consultant, my two missions at Ledger were:
- Helping the internal HR teams on recruitment process’ optimizations in collaboration with the engineering leads.
- Sourcing new talents for our engineering teams:
Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Engineering Programs Manager, etc.

- Ledger n°1 des entreprises qui offrent le meilleur équilibre vie pro/perso en France -

Ametix

Ametix is a consultancy company specialized in building IT & Digital teams for its clients.

My purpose was to build consulting teams for Corporates and high-growth tech environments and also, help them to find great executive profiles for permanent positions. 

Scope of actions :

Back-End Dev - Front-End Dev - Scrum Master - DevOps - SRE - Ops - QA - Product Owner - Business Analyst - UX Researcher - UX Design - UI Design - Data Scientist - VP Engineering - CTO - Dev Evangelist -  

Ametix also organizes the biggest hackathon in Europe  - MDF

 Digital Headhunter / Manager Business Development 

Fed IT

As head of the FED IT, my teams and I support our clients in all their IT recruitment (permanent and contract roles). 

- Creation of the IT Business Line for Groupe Fed
- Developing business with current and new clients
- Managing a team of two senior consultants by organizing their daily activities, following their activities, setting their targets, etc.

http://www.fedit.fr/ 

"Bénéficiant de l'excellente réputation du groupe FED sur l'ensemble de ses marques et de son expertise à exceller dans le recrutement , FED IT a la volonté de devenir un acteur incontournable du recrutement IT."

Head of Team - Fed IT

Allegis Group

In a candidate oriented world quick learner and fast doer, during more than three years, I succeed in improving and accelerate our relationships with our candidates and clients for the two major brands of Allegis.

Build relationships with candidates for internal or contracting roles and understand their objectives and mindset
Understand clients’needs (Corporate and Consultancy Companies) and find the right people for the right plans to meet their business objectives
Lead junior consultant to their total autonomy

Aston Carter
Dec 2015 - Avril 2017
As a Senior Consultant, I was responsible for the development of Risk & Compliance practice.

TEKsystems 
Jan 2014 - Nov 2015
From Recruiter to Senior Consultant, my role was to expand the Infrastructure practice

Recruitment Consultant

Belgian Sweets Design

Sales Representative

SMT Group

Shipping & Export Trainee

British and Sportcars

Sales Assistant & Maintenance

We work with startups, scale-up and corporates 💪 (few examples below):
Defacto
Waldo
Datadog
Folk
Ankorstore
Jellysmack
Alkemics
Kpler
Qonto
Dashlane
Ledger
Chance
Streamroot

We help companies to hire faster senior & highly qualified candidates.

+ We offer people the career they want without compromise, no matter where they live and who they are.

Our Services:
1️⃣ GROWTH
Work with our agency team of seasoned experts to find the perfect candidates across product, design, software engineering & data; from 1 to 6 roles

2️⃣ BUILD
Secure more hiring at a lower cost as we bring our expertise directly to your teams with personal, embedded recruiting services for three or 6-month sprints; from 6+ roles

3️⃣ SCALE
Hire executive or niche talent capable of redefining your business trajectory. Gain unparalleled access to industry-leading figures in Innovation, Growth, Strategy, Engineering, Design, and Product.

4️⃣ FASTER
Have a product that needs fast-tracking and lacks the team to do it? Engage skilled contractors for your tech and product teams on short or long-term projects.

STAKHA
https://stakha.io

Ping me an email to amaury@stakha.io
Phone/WhatsApp : +33 7 61 75 40 66

Founder | Shaping the future of work

Distributed work ==> better inclusivity, better work-life balance, better productivity

Stakha.io is a tech-recruiting company strongly focused on remote & hybrid work.

Our mission is to build a more talented and diversified working environment by connecting talents & companies around the EU.

From December 2022, the same as before but strong focus on outbound sales
Between July 2020 til now, orchestrated Product, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and HR
Created the first CRM system and a no-code recruitment platform, transforming operations and talent acquisition. 
Amplified revenue by 30% (a surge of 300k€ in 2022) via strategic inbound initiatives. 
Streamlined operations, accelerating deal closure processes
Nurtured a culture of autonomy and self-learning, fostering a team of 10 professionals. 
Established rigorous standards for processes and hiring, distinguishing our brand in the competitive landscape. 
Championed a 200k€ non-dilutive fundraising campaign, safeguarding founder equity. 
Initiated an influential webinar series with industry giants, enhancing brand visibility and networking. 
Optimized profitability in tech and marketing divisions. 
Navigated critical decisions, fortifying long-term business resilience

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