Nicolas Carenton

Led and managed a fully remote team of 6 engineers developing a security focused SaaS platform from the ground up:

- Shipped Asset Discovery and API Threat Detection from zero to GA: two of the company's core revenue-generating modules, built on distributed systems ingesting billions of events daily

- Cut cloud infrastructure costs by hundreds of thousands of euros per month. Diagnosed and resolved systemic performance bottlenecks across the stack

- Grew and retained a team of 6 engineers: zero attrition on the core team over 5 years, including full-cycle hiring, coaching, and internal promotion

- Owned the technical roadmap end-to-end: scoped with Product, sequenced for delivery, and consistently shipped on time

Tech Stack: Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Golang, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Redis, BigTable, MongoDB, Neo4j, ElasticSearch, Protobuf, gRPC, Datadog, Gitlab, BigQuery, Looker Studio

Core engineer on a B2C ride-sharing platform at scale; first engineer on the B2B pro offering.

- Extracted pricing and fee computation from a PHP monolith into Java microservices achieving 6,000 QPS: independent scaling, faster iteration

- Designed geo-based dynamic pricing feature end-to-end, from architecture to production

- Built the pro driver app from scratch, enabling professional drivers and bus companies to list trips on the platform

Tech Stack: Kubernetes, Java, Spring Boot, RxJava, Retrofit, Maven, Gradle, PHP, Symfony, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, Protobuf, gRPC, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, SonarQube

Developed and maintained an open source distributed application used for the access and analysis of peta-scale climate models output data (ESGF)

Tech Stack: ESX, CentOS, Docker, Lustre, Java, Apache Tomcat, Apache Solr, Nginx, Python, PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, Jenkins, Jupyterhub, PBS/Torque, MPI/OpenMP