Leopold Dauvergne

Experience

Senior Solution Architect – Thales, Munich, Germany — Current (since January 2020)

Lead Principal EMEA Solution Architect for Thales Software Monetization platform integration into customer ecosystems. Partnered with technical management teams, providing guidance and support to software development teams, ensuring in-time, in-scope, and in-budget project delivery. Achievements:

Enhanced project delivery acceptance through effective team leadership
Improved architecture documents by establishing content guidelines and best practices
Enhanced development status tracking and reporting
Improved internal usage of Confluence and JIRA by delivering internal coaching and how-to guides

Key Leadership Aspects:

Led cross-functional teams to deliver successful projects
Provided coaching and support to software development teams
Played a pivotal role in shaping architectural best practices

Techs and Concepts:

Solution Architecture, Software development according to Agile principles
ERP's & Third parties systems integration
Jira, Gitlab
AWS & GCP, Docker, Python, NodeJS, JavaEE, Springboot / Springcloud

Solution Architect – Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany — 2018-2020 (2 years)

Steered product management towards software innovation and customer-centric solutions, focusing on Defense and Government systems. Guided development teams on solution architecture and software development as-well-as Agile processes. Achievements:

Led technical teams, both locally in Munich and remotely in Singapore
Adapted software development processes to prioritize customer needs
Micro-service oriented proof of concepts

Techs and Concepts:

Solution Architecture, Software development, Agile Principles, event-driven architectures
Large Scale Mobile Network Testing System
Jira, Gitlab, Enterprise Architect, Gradle
Python, JavaEE, RabbitMQ, C#, Springboot / Springcloud, AMQP, .NET, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, JSON, Docker

Technical Project Manager – Fidor Solutions (BPCE Group), Munich, Germany — 2016-2018 (2 years)

Shaped the product vision by collecting customer demands and considering project boundaries, focusing on client-specific USPs based on the company's product portfolio. Bridged gaps between sales, marketing, engineering, and support teams, working as part of a project delivery team. Achievements:

Established processes to manage a vendor development team based in India
Created testing and reporting processes to validate vendor development outputs
Successfully led project ramp-up phases with key partners
Successfully driving a multicomponent project to offer new Digital Banking product in France - supervision of CMS, Community, Frontend, Backend and Testing teams

Techs and Concepts:

Solution Architecture, Core Banking Integration
Cards Processing, Next Gen Mobile banking (Apple Pay integration, Android Pay integration)
Jira, Github
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Docker

Solution Architect – Uniscon GmbH, Munich, Germany — 2015-2016 (2 years)

Contributed to a startup development team, providing architectural designs and PoCs to support long-term modularity. Enhanced continuous integration, test management and release management processes. Achievements:

Introduced new backend architecture improving long term scalability based on micro services, using Spring, Apache Kafka, Docker and Jetty
Optimized and redesigned REST API Implementation to optimise and ease frontend development
Wrote a Journaling system HBase implementation.
Front end developments improvements using Node.js, AngularJS and GWT.
Lead French translation project, improving french customers adoption.
CI/CD processes improvements, reducing overall build & testing time for frontend & backend

Techs:

JavaEE(8 & 7), Node.js, AngularJS, Javascript, GWT, Bash
HBase, Hadoop, MySQL
Maven, Jenkins, SVN, GIT
Apache Kafka, Docker, SOAP, Jetty
Cloud Architecture, REST architecture, Web technologies, CI/CD

Full Stack Engineer – Trustonic GmbH, Munich, Germany — 2013 – 2015 (2 yrs)

Worked on a Trusted Execution Environment framework. Lead Full Stack Engineer within a team of 4 people. In charge of managing the continuous integration, testing and release management infrastructure. Took part in the Asian partners technical account management team. Achievements:

Deployed and maintained an Android System app used by all Samsung Galaxy smartphones and several other vendors (still in use in 2020).
Implemented TSM (Trusted Service Manager) blueprints, including implementation of a network security stack within time critical deadline.
Successfully migrated projects with more than 10 years of legacy to new continuous integration infrastructure.
Defined quality improvements, features specifications, taking in account tight schedule on projects with up to 10 years of legacy. Got approval from product management head, followed up the realization.
Part of the Asian technical account management team, including on-site partner(s) visits, joint meeting realization, SLA agreements and engineering support. In charge of Samsung and South Korea Telecom (SKT).

Techs:

JavaEE / Java (8, 7 & 6), Android, C, Python, Bash
Oracle SQL
Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, GIT, Jira, Arquillian
CMP (RFC4210), SOAP, JSF, JBoss, Junit, Web Security Services (WSS)
REST architecture, Web technologies, Network engineering, security (TEE) and architecture

R&D engineer – Dental Wings Inc, Montreal, Canada — 2013 (6 months)

Within a backend team of 4 engineers. In charge of analysing, documenting and improving REST APIs. Involved in the development of new features following TDD (Test Driven Development) principles, proofs of concept and demo projects. Achievements:

Wrote full API specifications and unit tests design.
API benchmarking and profiling with full report to high level management.
Tasks definition to improve performance and reliability. Very positive feedback from the team in charge of the realization.
Developed a Google Web Toolkit front end.

Techs:

JavaEE(6 & 7), Java (6+), Google Web Toolkit, RabbitMQ
mySQL
Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, GIT, Redmine
SOAP, JSF, JBoss, Junit, JMeter
REST architecture, Web technologies, Application Server Technologies

R&D engineer Intern – UBIqube Solutions, Grenoble, France — 2012 (3 months)

As part of a start-up team. Worked on a routers configuration automation software suite (SDN). In charge of defining and realizing proof of concepts for future developments. Achievements:

Wrote study on new ways for router configuration provisioning, positive feedback from management.
Realized a proof of concept of router configuration automation using TR-069 protocol instead of SSH.
Successfully integrated this proof of concept to the existing software suite for demonstration showcase.

Techs:

C, C++, PHP, HTML5
mySQL, SVN
Raw SOAP, JBoss, Cisco Networks CCNA 1-2-3 and CCNP 1
Application Server Technology, REST architectures, Web technologies, Network Monitoring Softwares (Nagios/Shinken)

Research Student – Metropolia University, Helsinki, Finland — 2009 (3 months)

Within the university laboratories. Worked on a standalone research project having for goal the study of client roaming between Cisco Wifi Access points. Achievements:

Realized the study of an unused optical fibre link between two university buildings in order to restore its full operational capability.
Successfully made a wifi coverage network map for optimizing building connectivity.
Optimized clients roaming between different access points for smooth VoIP calls handling.

Techs:

Bash, C, C++
Cisco Networks CCNA 1-2-3 and CCNP 1
Signal coding & processing, Signal transmission, GSM, UMTS, LTE, ADSL

Innovation & Personal Projects

Ski Webcams – Launched 2011

Easy way to consult your favourite resorts webcams and save your favourites for snap checking before having a ride. Available on Blackberry 10, Meego and Symbian. 40 K downloads.

Javascript, Qt, QML

Ground Control – 2013

Designing a welcome interface for users entering a building, such as a university hall. The user is then shown information such as: timetable, newsfeed, mails and twitter.

A unified login solution has been developed and tested with NFC, QrCode and RFID. Once the user is logged, a script is used to show timetable, mails and twitter feed. The image is displayed via a beamer on the floor and linked to a tracking system based on OpenCV. Servos motors and mirror are used to track the user, redirecting the image according to its position.

Javascript, HTML5, Ajax, Java, C

Proximity sensors for touch table – 2012

Creation of a data acquisition module, data management module and demo application for touch table with multiple proximity sensors embedded.

Demo application is showing a window that opens up when a user is getting close to the table. The window is following the user when moving around the table.

C#, C

Clock My World – 2012

Check your sunrise and sunset time depending of your location. Easily enjoy admiring sunset wherever you are. Available on Meego and Symbian. 10 K downloads.

Javascript, Qt, QML, Geolocation APIs

Business & Management

Certification : ITIL

Experience : Product Management, Technical Account Management, Quality Management, Project Management, International Business, Agile & Scrum Processes

Education

2010-2013 Master of Sciences – Engineer program (IT Networks and Telecommunications) in Polytech Engineering School (Grandes Ecoles), Grenoble, France.

2009-2010 Bachelor – ITCom (Information Technology and Communication) at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland.

2007-2009 Two years bachelor (DUT) – Networks and Communications at IUT1 of Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (France).

2007 French Scientific Baccalaureate – Engineering Sciences specialization.

Languages

Core :

French (Mother tongue)
English (Fluent, 950/990 TOIEC)
German (Average)

Additional :

Finnish (Basics)
Russian (Basics)