Olivier Bertrand

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VP of Engineering at Kite Commerce · Platform engineering · Backstage, service mesh

Kite Commerce
Paris, France · CET (UTC+1)
12+ years experience
Bocconi University
English, French
Co-founder
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Overview

15 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Kite Commerce, where I lead the developer platform team. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 391ms to 176ms. Led the migration of 25 services to Kubernetes. Most at home with observability and Backstage. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
service meshBazelBackstageobservabilityGoKubernetes
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for price monitoring for restaurant chains

The idea
Price monitoring for restaurant chains
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
11 years in platform engineering
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Paris or remote

I bring 15 years of platform engineering (currently Kite Commerce). Ideally you've run operations in India and SEA. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Paris, Francebackstagekubernetesbazel
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Kite Commerce · 4 yr · Full-time · Paris, France
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 75% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Senior Platform Engineer
    Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
    Celonis · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
    • Moved 91% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
    Maersk · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 6.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
    Adyen · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
    • Moved 79% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 5.
  5. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jul 2014 - Sep 2016
    Mollie · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
    • Built the experimentation framework 26 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with Go and Kubernetes. 3474 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Bocconi University
    BSc, Information Technology
    2008 - 2011

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