Adam Rousseau

Overview

Based in Paris. I lead API platforms at Allegro. Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with REST and Elasticsearch. Collector of fountain pens.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jun 2024 - Present
   Allegro · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 45% in two quarters.
   • Led the migration of 42 services to Redis.
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 402ms to 70ms.
2. Senior Backend Engineer

   Apr 2021 - Jun 2024
   Feedzai · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Grew the public API team from 5 to 40 engineers.
   • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 17 million requests a day.
3. Backend Engineer

   May 2018 - Apr 2021
   Volvo Cars · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 31 a week to 1.
4. Backend Engineer

   Jun 2016 - May 2018
   Amazon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 784ms to 139ms.
   • Wrote the Django service that now handles 80 million requests a day.
5. Backend Engineer

   Jan 2014 - Jun 2016
   Revolut · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 28% in two quarters.

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Education

1. École Polytechnique

   Ingénieur, Information Technology
   2009 - 2013