Laurent Paris's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Software Architect @ Hewlett-Packard • Led architecture definition and development of e-commerce and mobile portal solutions for HP customers (web services, J2EE, J2ME, WAP) with a strong focus on high-availability and performance aspects. From July 2000 to May 2002 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard • Development of drivers and SNMP agents for HP ATM network cards. Multi-threaded design in Unix kernel with strong performance requirements. From December 1993 to June 1996 (2 years 7 months) FranceCTO @ WeWork • Helped scale the WeWork Technology team from 150 to 800 in 2 years.• Directly managed all software engineers and data scientists supporting all aspects of WeWork business (real-estate & construction, sales & marketing, member experience, financial systems, ...).• Led the definition and execution of the data strategy for WeWork (data infrastructure, information model, business analysis and reporting, ...).• Invested in platforms and technologies to automate the operation of a fleet of 400+ buildings (IoT, computer vision, robotics). From May 2017 to April 2019 (2 years) Greater New York City AreaVP of Engineering @ Spotify • Advocated for and executed the acquisition of The Echo Nest, and in 3 years grew from 20 to 200 the team that delivered all Spotify's music recommendations. The activities of that team included building a comprehensive music knowledge graph, developing playlist programming tools for the editorial team, and innovating on personalized music experiences (Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, Home Page, …).• Helped scale the Spotify NYC office from 50 to several hundred engineers• Restructured the platform team at Spotify for better serving the various engineering teams, and articulated the long-term strategy in term of development/operations tools and data infrastructure From January 2012 to April 2017 (5 years 4 months) Greater New York City AreaDirector of Engineering, Y! Local & Y! Maps @ Yahoo! • Managed teams (US, EU, India) responsible for the back-end infrastructures for Y! Local and Y! Maps (content acquisition and processing, search, monetization).• Led project to improve relevance of Local search results using machine-learning ranking.• Led a project to transition Y! Local from legacy technologies to a new architecture based on Hadoop. From January 2008 to August 2010 (2 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Engineering Manager @ Yahoo! • Led the development of merchants and affiliates tools, financial and business intelligence systems, and traffic acquisition for Kelkoo (Y! shopping comparison acquisition in EU generating more than 100 M$ yearly revenue). • Led the European side of a worldwide program involving several EU and US teams to integrate Kelkoo systems into Y! advertising platform (Panama).• Managed the transition from a waterfall to an agile development methodology and setup of continuous integration for over 70 engineers. From November 2004 to January 2008 (3 years 3 months) FranceR&D Project Manager @ Eloquant • Led a team of engineers developing a next-generation telephony platform (Java, VoIP, VXML, ASR, TTS) with strong requirements in term of availability and performance. • Contributed to Parlay X standard. From June 2002 to November 2004 (2 years 6 months) FranceSenior Operations Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard • Member of the HP Operations team providing web infrastructure (servers, network, web proxies, ...) to HP business units (www.hp.com, shopping.hp.com, ...).• Led several projects to improve high-availability of HP web sites to 99.9%.• Led an ISP selection project to outsource hosting of HP web sites. From July 1996 to June 2000 (4 years) France & San Francisco Bay AreaCEO & Co-Founder @ Datakin Working to make your data reliable. San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Engineering, Content Agility @ Yahoo! • Responsible for the development and operation of a set of new platforms used to acquire, enrich and serve all content powering Y! Media experiences (News, Sports, Finance, …). These platforms included a proprietary key-value store serving 5,000 req/s in less than 10ms and a 1,000 nodes Hadoop cluster for ML-based content enrichment. More than 100 sites were successfully migrated from legacy architectures to these new platforms in less than 1 year.• Managed some of the remaining Y! Search infrastructure after the transition to Microsoft Bing. This included a 1,000 nodes HBase cluster used by Y! scientists to store and mine a copy of the web crawl provided by Microsoft Bing. From August 2010 to January 2012 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay Area