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

FX Innovation

Nous réinventons l’expérience informatique avec la plateforme FX, alimentée par ServiceNow, qui offre à nos clients du libre-service, une visibilité basée sur les rôles et un contrôle sur ce qui compte le plus pour l’informatique : la gestion des coûts, la santé opérationnelle, la sécurité et la conformité. 
 
Fondée en 2002, FX Innovation investit dans les personnes, la technologie, l’éducation et la durabilité pour aider nos clients à atteindre leurs objectifs commerciaux et concurrentiels. 
FX Innovation est une entreprise indépendante de Bell Canada Business Markets. 


En tant que Spécialiste Acquisition de Talents chez FXi je joue un rôle pivot dans la définition du futur de la transformation digitale. 
J'agis comme un pont entre les talents et nos opportunités chez FX ! 

Mon travail consiste à identifier et communiquer avec les personnes qui seront les catalystes de l'innovation chez FX. J'interviens également sur les projets spéciaux de la compagnie liés à nos processus RH, l'expérience candidat, ...

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Special Projects 

Technical Recruiter (Canada - US) for positions in Software Dev, Design, Product Management

- Owner of the end-to-end recruitment process, from need gathering to the offer's signature. 

- Sourcing

Technical Recruiter

GSoft

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist and Sourcer, I am responsible for the entire recruiting process.

This role covers the day-to-day operations needed to attract talents and help the company grow, but also involves a broader scope on projects and improvements. 

Recruitment and sourcing operations in direct collaboration with hiring managers : 
- Need gathering, market analysis, sourcing, resume screening, phone screening, interview with the hiring manager, coordination of the technical assessment, offer extending, hiring manager counseling and advising 

Process improvements – projects : 
I had the chance to work on a various set of projects at GSoft, covering different aspects related to recruitment : 
-	Employer brand (benchmark and research, creation of various supports to convey the brand philosophy)  
-	Data and insights (worked on the data dashboard for the recruitment, collaboration with the stakeholders on their needs and with the BI team for the execution)  
-	Tools & process (helped to bring new steps to analyze our recruitment processes and to identify opportunities to learn)

Recruitment Advisor - Sourcing @ GSoft (Sharegate and Officevibe) 

Meritek Conseil

- sourcing of passive talents
- pre-screening phone interviews
- interviews
- writing of reports 
- update of the database
- benchmark

IT Recruitment Consultant

BARAN RECRUTEMENT

- Management of recruitment on the behalf of our clients, (End-to-end process) 
- Analysis of the need, (environment, profile of the applicant)
· Creating and developing an effective sourcing strategy to find top talent for client opportunities as efficiently as possible (jobboards, social networks, creating partnerships with schools providing profiles in the target...) ;

· Conduct comprehensive interviews with potential candidates to assess their suitability for opportunities, company fit, their motivations; and to better understand their personnality at work giving then insights to our clients on how to collaborate efficently with them ;

Work Psychologist - Recruitment

NEW ZEALAND

Almost one year in New-Zealand with a special work visa entitled WHV allowing me to work and travel in the country. 

I had the opportunity to have various jobs : 
- Hotel cleaner in Queenstown ;
- Kiwi-tree grafting around the Bay-Of-Plenty ; 
- Apples and Pears picking ;
- Kiwi-tree pruning ; planting ; thinning
And various other tasks during my WWOOF (Willing Workers On Organic Farm) stays : gardening (weeding, planting, fruit picking...), construction (demolition of an old shed, building of a sheep fence, exterior painting on a sleepout)... 

Not only did I meet some extraordinary people, see the most exquisite landscape, I had also the opportunity to get acquainted with an other culture, practice my English..

Working Holiday Visa

CABINET BLIQUE ACTIMUM - recruitment agency

At this position my principal mission is to assess the applicant regarding a job opportunity for one of our client. 
This assessment includes : 
- a structured and detailed interview, 
- administration, analysis of a personality questionnaire, reasoning questionnaire, 
- a written synthesis about the applicant regarding the role to fulfill, 
- if asked for, a restitution of the whole process to the applicant, 
- all the administrative around the applicant (updating of the database, printing of the folders, ...)

Depending on the activity, I can also help my colleagues with sourcing, or manage some recruitment processes for a colleague during the holidays, 
Occasionaly, I handle other tasks : 
- interview of employees to redefine their job description, 
- assessment of employees to give insight to the client about motivations, career wish, training wish of their employees.

During this internship I have the opportunity to learn the role of a Work Psychologist  in a recruitment agency. 
More precisely, I learn how : 
-  to conduct structured and detailed interviews regarding a specific position, 
-  to give standardized instructions for the administration of assessment instrument,
-  to analyze the results of such instrument and their limits, 
-  to write a synthesis about the application 
- ...

Work Psychologist Internship - Recruitment

Recruiting Digital Transformation Enablers, Groundbreakers & Visionnaries @ FX Innovation

As a Technical Recruiter for SaaS and agencies, I am responsible for the end-to-end recruitment process of in-demand technical profiles in Canada and the USA. I have over 10 years of experience in recruiting, sourcing, and evaluating candidates for various roles and 6+ years in the SaaS industry.

I am passionate about industrial and organizational psychology, human relations, and their implications for recruitment activities. I hold a master's degree in this field and a certification in inclusive recruiting from Textio. I am also skilled in creating and using recruitment dashboards, employer branding tools, and post-mortem sessions to improve the recruitment practices and outcomes.

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