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

Ultimate Beauty

Ultimate Beauty is a fast-growing, people-first, fully remote organization. Our purpose is to enable our team members to live their best life, while doing this "business thing" really really well.

As Chief People Officer, I'm responsible for developing a world-class culture as we 10x our business. This means I get to play with radical, leading-edge concepts such as Remote Work, Unique Ability, EOS, and Best life Coaching.

The bigger goal is to first prove we can have a couple hunded people live their best lives, while delivering outsized results.. -> And then share our learnings to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work.

Chief People Officer

Running Remote

Community Member

The Future is Remote

Ex-management consultant/entrepreneur/leader → turned Remote Evangelist. On a mission to inspire, educate & coach individuals, teams & organizations to succeed in a remote world.

20-30 minute conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and doers of Remote Work. 

Highlighted episodes
🎙 Humanizing Remote w/ Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist (https://spoti.fi/3U7N8b7)
🎙 The Benefits of Remote Work w/ Tony Jamous, Founder @ Oyster (https://spoti.fi/3hd1TL7)
🎙 Asynchronous Work w/ Nicolas Cava, Engineering Manager @ Zendesk (https://spoti.fi/3h36QWE)

Podcast Host / Remote Evangelist

Beleco

70% of companies are already hybrid (intentional or not). However most companies do not know how to realize the benefits (up to 50% reduced cost, while increasing productivity and engagement)

Beleco helps companies with the transition to Hybrid, through subscription based furniture for Offices and Home Offices. 

As Head of Hybrid I lead our internal Hybrid Transformation, and act as a thought leader with the wider community. 

As VP of Sales, I am  building a World Class Sales Organisation, to help our customers with their Hybrid Transformation, and create great workplaces for their employees - wherever they are.

Head of Hybrid / VP of Sales

NetSuite

Sales Manager, Nordic Startup & Scale-up segment. 
Led the turnaround of an underperfoming sales team of 11 remote account executives.

Sales Manager, Nordics

Google

Leading Google's engagement with startups across Northern Europe (Nordics & Benelux) 
- Grew function by >120% to 42M ARR
- Managed Google's portfolio of top 10 Scaleups to help drive hypergrowth (~200% YoY)
- Engaged with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem to support top 100 startups at scale

🚀 Head of Startups, Northern Europe

- Account Executive for Spotify, one of Google Cloud's top 3 customers globally (>300M ARR)
- Grew product adoption -> account revenue by 57%
- Led team of 16 cross-functional Googlers (Stockholm, New York, Dublin)

Account Executive, Top Account, Google Cloud

Business developer responsible for larger technology partners in Northern Europe and FRITES. Worked with two of Sweden's most exciting startups, helping them develop world class ad-tech products. 

Responsible for progressing and closing the largest deal in Channel Sales EMEA history.

Strategic Partner Developer, Channel Sales

- Helped Secure 50M SEK investment form Norrsken Foundation
- Hired and managed product and tech team
- Responsible for product strategy and development

Head of Product

Kugghuset AB

- Responsible for Future Labs (Product development hub)
- Managed design and development of a sales competition tool for Bambora
- Implemented internal sales pipeline & dashboards
- Trained colleagues in relationship driven sales

Product Developer

Seed Nordic

Startup Accelerator / Startup Factory

- Invested in 3 startups and led them through a 4 month program (1 exit) 
- Delivered startup-as-a-service innovation projects (6 weeks from idea to first paying customer)

Sample projects:
- Bambora Growth Capital
- Butlr
- Pimobo
- Frameworks
- NYFoodBox
- GetSocial

CEO / Product Developer

Serendipity

Serendipity Innovations was a management company with specialist expertise in innovation processes and early corporate development. 

- As a business developer I supported clients with their innovation needs, while continuously identifying establishing and growing new businesses.
- I was the initiator of S:Growth Accelerator, which we spun off and renamed Seed Nordic.

Business Developer

Head of Hybrid @ Beleco 🏡👨‍💻 Subscription based furniture for office and home office 📢 Remote Evangelist 🌟

🚀 On a mission to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work
🌟 Strategic thinker with 19 years experience across consulting, technology, commercial & people roles. 

Chief People Officer at Ultimate Beauty, ensuring that our people are happy, healthy engaged and able to do great work remotely.

🎙️ Podcast Host for "The Future is Remote", I engage in insightful conversations with industry leaders and thinkers in the remote work landscape.

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