Pierre Bernard - Director Engineering & Technology

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Nov 2023 - Present

2 years 3 months

Berlin, Germany

Lead the technology & engineering department
Collaborate with Digital Product Lead to develop and implement digital strategy
OKR definition with the executive team
System Design
Manage and mentor engineering teams
Adapt engineering teams structure to serve efficiently the company
Supervise the development and maintenance of the ERP and integrations
Develop and implement efficiency frameworks
GDPR compliance and data privacy
Cybersecurity
Guarantee the uptime of our services
Reduce our infrastructure costs in AWS by 20% without sacrificing end user performance and engineer experience
Led the Technology & Engineering department of 20 persons, from 12 different countries, including team leads, Digital Product team, engineers, QA and DevOps
Department with the lowest turn over, 4% in two years
Built strong relationship with our vendors, leading to smoother discussion, cost efficient contracts and long lasting relationships
Rebuilt technology & engineering organisation to support the new engineering strategy and productivity
Reduced the technical debt in our ERP improving efficiency of our Stakeholders and reducing maintenance costs by 50%
Reduced response time, for users GDPR related requests, from 3 days to 5 minutes by implementing automations.

May 2022 - Nov 2023

1 year 7 months

Berlin, Germany

Lead the eCommerce engineering team reporting into the CIO
Support the CIO in architectural and infrastructural decisions
System Design
Lead the re-platforming of our eCommerce platform
Collaborate with Digital Product teams to implement digital strategy
Improve engineering efficiency and deliverable quality
Manage and mentor engineering teams
Led engineering teams of 12 persons, from 6 different countries, building customer facing applications such as our eCommerce platform and our Magazine
Conceptualised and led the development of a new Customer Data Platform application
Re-platforming of both our eCommerce platform from a legacy system to a modern application as well as our Magazine
Implemented and improved software delivery operation to speed up release processes and improve quality through CI/CD and automation testing pipelines
Built a migration middleware to transfer millions of records from our legacy platform to our new eCommerce application while ensuring GDPR compliance with legacy data

Dec 2019 - May 2022

2 years 6 months

Berlin, Germany

Define and implement coding best-practices
Support the CTO in architectural and infrastructural decisions
System Design
Manage and mentor the engineering team
Hands-on backend development for our eCommerce platform built on Magento 1 while managing the team
Hands-on continuous improvement and maintenance of our infrastructure built in AWS

Apr 2016 - Dec 2019

3 years 9 months

Berlin, Germany

Built highly-scalable eCommerce infrastructure in AWS with no prior AWS knowledge. The infrastructure has been the foundation of the eCommerce channel and used for 8 years
Development for our eCommerce platform built on Magento 1
Sparing partner for our CTO for application architecture and infrastructure design
Collaboration with our CPO to quickly build and implement new features

Feb 2015 - Mar 2016

1 year 2 months

Berlin, Germany