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

Dialectica

I provide Technical Consultation & also act as a Technical Advisor independently for many clients around the world.

Independent Consultant

Guidepoint

I provide independent technical guidance on different projects for many clients depending on the assignment allocated to me.

Software Engineering Advisor

Monjin

I take interviews in the area of Project Management as an Empanelled Interviewer

Empanelled Interviewer

ValueLabs

●	Close interaction with Incident Management, Problem Management, Release Management and Configuration Management teams on daily basis across multiple time zones
●	Worked on process, policy and metric development as part of Project Planning & reporting
●	IT Release Management which includes managing infra software delivery. Have good experience on JIRA & ServiceNow.
●	Planning all weekday/weekend changes and manage the escalations & infra validations
●	Part of all P1 and P2 calls and doing proper risk/problem management by complying with the client policies.

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Mentor

Dell Technologies

•	Responsible for full lifecycle of software engineering project (planning, execution, monitoring, risk management, resolution of issues, and achievement of the targets) within agreed quality, time, budget, and other agreed KPIs/SLAs as part of Project Management for almost 6 months.

•	Responsible to create plans for software package delivery for builds and releases and ensure its smooth deployment to non-production and production.

•	Responsible in creating release and build plans with customer also ensuring development teams have appropriate pipeline as per the defined budgets.

•	As a RM responsible for prioritizing defects closure and meeting relevant gates while providing closer plan, reports and trend analysis.

•	Responsible in managing multiple scrum teams across multiple iterations for a release.Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps terminology, storyboards, reporting for 6 months.

•	Responsible for promoting a culture of continuous improvement and efficiency to the software/business processes through out-of-the-box thinking on product and processes by utilizing or creating new software engineering tools and different innovation techniques.

•	Responsible for managing multiple interfaces (internal and external), relationships and communication to ensure software delivery is aligned to meet not only the customer requirements, but also adds value to their business.

Technical Project Manager

Coforge

⦁	Managing a team of 14 resources for US based Investment Banking client.

⦁	Expertise in consulting and Engineering teams (multiple stake holders) in DevOps to make them involve effectively.

⦁	Coordinating ongoing technical training and personal development classes for staff members.

⦁	Seamless implementation of changes and system releases through strong release planning, change coordination, system and user acceptance testing, release and deployment management in order to assert that a product or service is robust and capable of being released into the live environment without causing a disruption to service.

⦁	Analyzing architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project requirements.

⦁	Roadmaps and maturity plans are in place to enhance and evolve the processes and tooling.

IT Manager

Accenture

⦁	Led team of 15 members as part of technical infrastructure support for test environments as part of current role for one of major UK Telecom client.

⦁	Develop and maintain a DevOps roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for DevOp in support of business strategies.

⦁	Bagged the ACE Award in the Individual Category at Accenture during June and August 2019 for outstanding contribution to client's business delivery and profitability.

⦁	Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams in order to help bridge the functional gap and determine the DevOps feature/function set in order to optimize the technical environment.

⦁	Successfully setup entire E2E environments from Dev to Prod with team effort.

Application Development Team Lead

⦁	Troubleshooted Test infrastructure WebLogic issues.

⦁	Ensured problem management post every issue for identifying root cause and update the Knowledge Bank.

⦁	Provided support for all stages of WebLogic implementation, triaging and remediating presented issues with timely responses.

⦁	Managed over 50 Middleware applications and provided 24/7 resilience support.

WebLogic Admin

Trigent Software Limited

⦁	Extended Weblogic support for all environments starting from development to production.

⦁	Implemented high availability and fault-tolerant administration strategies to load balancing tasks.

⦁	Raised uptime of application availability to 99%.

⦁	Installed and maintained 1000+ servers with 100% pro-active monitoring approach.

Senior System Analyst

Technical Project Manager | Prompt Engineer | Async Work Patron | Believes In Lying Flat

As a seasoned technical consultant and advisor, I leverage my 12+ years of experience in providing independent technical guidance on various projects for clients worldwide. I hold an MTech degree from Anna University and certifications in ITIL, Prince 2 & cloud. My skills include operations management, client delivery, and technical consultation. I am passionate about delivering high-quality solutions that meet the needs of my clients and contribute to their success.

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