Paul Chevalier

Overview

Currently at Orchard Energy, where I lead API platforms with a team of 24. Grew the public API team from 5 to 17 engineers. Collector of fountain pens.

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Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2023 - Present
   Orchard Energy · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Grew the public API team from 5 to 20 engineers.
   • Wrote the OpenAPI service that now handles 38 million requests a day.
   • Moved 85% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Backend Engineer

   Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
   LVMH · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 27 a week to 1.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 2.
3. Senior Backend Engineer

   Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
   Capgemini · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Built the experimentation framework 23 product teams use to ship changes safely.
4. Senior Backend Engineer

   Sep 2017 - Nov 2019
   Novo Nordisk · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Moved 70% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 38% in two quarters.
5. Backend Engineer

   Jun 2015 - Sep 2017
   Volkswagen Group · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Paris, France
   • Wrote the REST service that now handles 71 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Erasmus University Rotterdam

   MSc, Information Technology
   2015 - 2017
2. Bocconi University

   BSc, Information Technology
   2010 - 2013