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Antoine Picolet

Antoine Picolet


Paris, FR
+33 6 28 57 69 57

Background


About

About

Engineering Executive with extensive experience in global software development, product delivery, and DevOps. Proven leadership across scale-ups and large enterprise environments.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • VP of Engineering, Brevo

    Jan, 2023 - Present

    Overseeing product delivery, platform operations, and security.

    • Introduced strong engineering mindsets and industrial-grade frameworks

    • Reinforced cross-functional leadership and structured incident/change management

    • Supported scaling through solid microservice-based product frameworks

  • Senior Director of Engineering, SYMPHONY

    Jan, 2020 - Present

    Head of a 60-people development group in charge of Symphony’s main Financial collaboration product, and its external extensibility/platform model

    • Scale-up from startup-mode, product delivery industrialisation

    • Quality Assurance leadership

    • Developer Ecosystem management

  • Department Manager, Airline IT, Digital Platform, AMADEUS

    Jan, 2018 - Jan, 20202 years

    Head of a 40-people development and architecture group and of a 80-people development Tribe, defining and delivering the new Amadeus Airline Digital Platform technical foundations

    • State-of-the-art Web technologies

    • Advanced B2C Digital Techniques

    • Enterprise-Scaled, End-to-End Agility with SAFE

  • Department Manager, Airline IT, Digital Production, AMADEUS

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

    Head of a 50-people DevOps automation and SRE/production support group, driving technology stack refactoring and migration to private cloud

    • SRE / Production Support domain, IT Service Management (ITIL®)

    • Containerisation, Cloud technologies, DevOps automation

    • Website technical infrastructure

  • Department Manager, Airline IT, Digital business London, AMADEUS

    Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20151 year

    Creator and leader for a 30-people development group in London, part of Airline Digital business line, delivering B2C Airline website and mobile

    • Agile team organization – Scrum, Kanban

    • Development Group logistics

    • Cross-site work organization (UK/France/India)

    • Web e-commerce business and technology

  • Team Manager, Airline IT, Flight Departure Control, AMADEUS

    Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20132 years

    Line Manager for an 8-people development team for Airline Flight Load Controller agents Front-End (Java Swing)

    • Mission-critical application management

    • Distributed Backend/Microservice architecture

  • Project Manager, Airline IT, Contact Centre Front-Office, AMADEUS

    Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20101 year

    Project Manager for first airline pilots of new Airline Agent Front-End (Web)

    • Customer management in project-mode

    • Project management (PMP®)

  • Team Manager, Travel Distribution, Travel Agent Front-Office, AMADEUS

    Jan, 2007 - Jan, 20081 year

    Line Manager for an 8-people development team for Travel Agents Front-End (Fat client)

    • People and Team management

    • Web development

  • Software developer, Airbus a380 onboard IT system, Safran Defense & Security

    Jan, 2003 - Jan, 20063 years

    Lead developer for pilot- and maintainer-oriented graphical system onboard Airbus A380 cockpit.

    • Passion for IT

    • Software Development Cycle

    • Systems Administration Fundamentals

Skills

Skills

  • People leadership of international IT Engineering groups
  • Project Management

    Agile methodologies

    PMP®

  • Service Management of mission-critical Production applications
  • Product Development

    HTML

    Typescript/JavaScript

    Java

    Python

  • Web infrastructure

    network topology

    CDN

    anti-bot/WAF

    Web hosting

  • Digital Marketing

    Adobe Experience Manager

    A/B testing

    analytics

  • DevOps automation

    docker

    k8s

    AWS

    GCP

    Jenkins

    CI/CD toolchain

  • Languages

    French native

    English fluent

Education

Education

  • Engineering and aeronautics, MSc in Engineering - Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Supaéro)

    Jan, 2000 - Jan, 2002

  • General scientific studies, MSc in Engineering - Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ecole Polytechnique

    Jan, 1997 - Jan, 2000