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

Infocorp 

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Skyline Codeworks

• Founded Skyline Codeworks, a micro consulting boutique specializing in AI, Cloud, Fintech, and Blockchain.  
• Led the development of innovative solutions that improved operational efficiency for clients in the tech industry.  
• Cultivated partnerships with key stakeholders, enhancing service offerings and expanding market reach.  
• Achieved a significant increase in client satisfaction through tailored consulting services and strategic insights.

Founder & CTO

Valere Realms

Directed advanced projects spanning AI, VR, AR, web and mobile technologies, overseeing full project life cycle and aligning technical strategy with client needs.

- Orquested end-to-end delivery of five immersive AI/VR/AR proofs-of-concept for clients in retail and media, achieving an average stakeholder satisfaction score of 4.7/5.
- Defined and rolled out a scalable microservices architecture on AWS, reducing new-feature time-to-market by 30% across web and mobile product lines.
- Established a technical partnership program with two major GPU-accelerator vendors, cutting model-training times by 40% and positioning Valere Realms as a preferred innovation partner.

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Developed an insurtech platform based on JVM/Kotlin microservices, integrating AI‑powered features with MongoDB and PostgreSQL back‑ends while maintaining a streamlined user experience.

- Led the design and launch of a Kotlin-based microservices insurance-platform that processed 1,200+ policy quotes per hour at launch, exceeding performance SLAs by 25%.
- Integrated a PyTorch-driven claims-prediction engine into MongoDB, improving fraud-detection accuracy by 18% and saving an estimated $200K in false payouts in the first six months.
- Introduced automated CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and Docker, slashing deployment errors by 70% and accelerating release cadence from monthly to bi-weekly.

Wabi Project

Led the engineering team, managed recruitment and budgets, established quality standards and drove technical improvements to deliver scalable, customer‑focused solutions.

- Scaled the engineering team to 42, reducing average hiring time from 60 to 32 days while maintaining a <5% attrition rate.
- Championed the adoption of Terraform-driven infrastructure, cutting cloud costs by 22% YoY and enabling zero-downtime feature releases across global markets.
- Standardized code-quality and testing guidelines (Sonarqube, Jest), raising code-coverage from 48% to 85% and cutting production incidents by half.

VP of Engineering

Wenance

Oversaw multiple development teams, defined strategic roadmaps and budgets, ensured high‑quality SDLC execution and collaborated with cross‑functional departments.

- Oversaw concurrent delivery of four major fintech integrations (payment gateways, KYC flows) that collectively handled $150 M+ in annual transaction volume.
- Designed and enforced a company-wide SDLC governance model, reducing release-calendar deviations by 60% and improving cross-team delivery predictability.
- Launched a biweekly “Innovation Hour” hackathon, generating 3 internal-incubation ideas three of which evolved into production features driving 8% revenue growth.

Senior Technical Manager

Prudential Financial

Managed teams, defined technical roadmaps and solutions, analysed business challenges, identified areas for improvement, and produced key documentation such as BRDs and FSDs.

- Led a 10-engineer team to deliver a new BRD/FSD-driven policy-management module three weeks ahead of schedule, enabling a $5 M product launch.
- Implemented Agile/Kanban workflows, cutting average lead time from requirements to deployment by 35% and boosting team throughput by 25%.
- Authored core domain documentation (API specs, integration guides) that reduced onboarding time for new partner banks by 40%

Software Engineering Manager

Accenture

Led software and process‑improvement projects across utilities, supply‑chain and web platforms, focusing on BPM, system integration and global deployments.

- Directed global roll-outs of BPM and system‐integration solutions for two Fortune 500 utilities, achieving 99.9% uptime post-go-live.
- Managed cross-geography teams (India, Spain, Argentina) of 25+ developers, delivering multi-million-dollar projects on average 8% under budget.

Associate Manager

Early Career Highlights

Held senior developer roles at Metro/Makro, Bergé, Capgemini, IT Deusto and Nextret, delivering software solutions for clients in retail, logistics, banking, telecom and media.

Software Developer

I bring 25 years of experience turning complex tech into clear, engaging solutions combining deep industry insight and leadership:

· Business Strategy and Direction.
· Technical Direction, Operational Direction, Team Leadership, Hiring & Mentoring
· AI & Machine Learning (PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM fine‑tuning, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation)
· Cloud & DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)
· Software Architecture & SDLC governance
· Enterprise Integration & Data Engineering (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, microservices, Java, Kotlin, Python, AWS, GCP)
· Github repositories (AI & CMS projects): https://github.com/orgs/skylinecodeworks/repositories

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