Fabrice Laporte

Yescapa (100 employees, 15 when I joined) is the European leader in peer to peer motorhome and campervan hire.

• define the back-end recruitment strategy
• lead the effort to constantly adapt the organisation/methodology/tools to support team growth
• get things done via coding, communicating or delegating
• explain and illustrate the company strategic goals to the managers and ensure the message is properly communicated to the whole team

• code strategic features with high impact on the business in the context of cancellations due to the covid crisis
• coordinate continuous integration effort and enforce a culture of deploy early and often (multiple times a day when necessary)
• work in close collaboration with product owner to shape the future roadmap

coog by Coopengo (40 empl, 5 when I joined) is an open-source dedicated insurance software based on Tryton ORM. A personal milestone as I incorporated python and opensource, hitherto hobbies, into my daily work.

• sole developer on a strategic project to migrate a portfolio of +1 million insurance contracts

Balyo (200 empl., 3 when I joined) makes autonomous robots for load movements.

• release manager and automation of build system (CMake, CDash)
• lead source code management migration effort from SVN to Git

MKT (120 empl., 15 when I joined) is the inventor of Cellvizio device that performs real-time in vivo cellular imaging. I joined a team of 8 C++/Qt developers working on an ISO 14971 (risk management) compliant medical software codebase that had significant performance constraints to satisfy. Incredible experience that ignited my *thing* for startups.