Marie Richard

Overview

Based in Paris. I work on search and ranking at Dune Logistics. Moved 81% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Grew the search team from 6 to 37 engineers. Before that: Personio and Delivery Hero.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Dune Logistics · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Backed 23 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 17 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2021 - Jan 2025
   Personio · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 17 million requests a day.
3. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2017 - May 2021
   Delivery Hero · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 768ms to 79ms.
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 32 a week to 3.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
   Klarna · 2 yr · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 33 a week to 3.
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 31% in two quarters.
5. Software Engineer

   Nov 2011 - Sep 2015
   Volkswagen Group · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 12 a week to 3.
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 19% in two quarters.

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Education

1. Bocconi University

   BSc, Computer Science
   2002 - 2005