About Olivier
🔹 Seasoned IT Leader | Agile Expert | Engineering Enabler 🔹
With 15 years of experience in IT and a decade in management, I specialize in driving teams and organizations toward success through a people-centric approach. My career journey spans roles like Software Engineer, Agile Coach, Engineering Manager, and Head of Engineering, providing me with a global understanding of tech organizations, from small start-ups to international organizations.
I’m dedicated to crafting exceptional work environments that empower software engineers and tech teams to excel. By blending engineering practices expertise, agile methodologies, and empathetic leadership, I help teams and organizations unlock their full potential and deliver impactful results.
🎤 Speaker at :
- 🇫🇷🥨 Agile Tour Strasbourg 2022, 2023 & 2025
- 🇱🇺 Agile Tour Luxembourg 2023
- 🇫🇷 Agile Tour Bordeaux 2025
- 🇫🇷 Codeurs en Seine 2025
- 🇨🇭 Agile Tour Genève 2025
- 🇧🇪 DevDay 2025
🚀 Core Strengths
- Transforming technical teams into high-performing, collaborative units
- Driving agile transformations for scalable and sustainable growth
- Building and fostering organizational cultures that inspire innovation
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Strasbourg (up to 50km)
Experience
- ClinFlowsAgile & Engineering CoachHEALTH AND WELLNESSJune 2025 - Today (1 year)Kehl, GermanyCoaching a feature team so their members adopt better agile and engineering practices to reduce the feedback loop, improve the code quality and the general capacity to collaborate inside teams and cross teams to increase the delivery quality and frequency.Organization and facilitation of workshops.Coaching of one Engineering Manager.
- OgurySenior Agile Coach | Engineering Program ManagerPRESS AND MEDIAApril 2025 - November 2025 (7 months)Strasbourg, FranceAt Ogury, I operated at the intersection of engineering, product, and organizational coaching to help teams deliver faster, collaborate better, and raise their standards of execution.Main highlights:
- Agile & delivery transformation: Introduced a structured Discovery to Delivery workflow, coached PMs/EMs on slicing, user stories, acceptance criteria, flow metrics, and predictable delivery. Helped teams adopt real MVP thinking and reduce rework and go-to-market time.
- Engineering excellence: Raised quality through coaching on pair programming, code review, progressive rollout, feature flags, observability, and data-driven decisions. Supported tech debt management and sustainable delivery practices.
- Product-engineering alignment: Improved collaboration across Product Data & Engineering departments, enabling smoother cross-team initiatives, clearer ownership, and more stable delivery pipelines.
- Bugs and unplanned business needs prioritization framework – Co-designed a company-wide scoring system for bugs and unplanned business needs prioritization to replace the “shouting effect” with transparent, predictable decision-making.
- Leadership & executive coaching: Coached managers and leaders on decision-making, communication, prioritization, and team health. Helped create psychologically safe, autonomous, high-performing teams.
- Operational & cultural improvements – Facilitated workshops around code reviews, retrospectives, dailies and sprint reviews to improve rituals, and facilitated deep-work practices.
My impact: faster and more reliable delivery, healthier teams, improved cross-team alignment, better business visibility, and a significant improvement in engineering and product practices. - ApidayHead of EngineeringPRIVATE EQUITYNovember 2024 - January 2025 (2 months)Paris, FranceDuring these 2 months, I actively took part in restructuring the Tech & Data department with the following achievements:- Improved the hiring process- Hired 3 new senior software engineers- Defined Product & Tech OKRs for Q1 2025- Designed an efficient bugs prioritization process- Reduced the number of open bugs from ~100 to 30 to improve global visibility and enable proper prioritization of the incoming ones- Reworked the bugs creation & prioritization process- Designed a career path for software engineers and engineering managers from scratch, including salary ranges, a skills matrix associated with key objectives for main categories (Delivery, Behavior, Technical mastery, Influence, Collaboration) for each seniority level and implemented a process to do half-yearly performance reviews including the related templates- Took over the role of DCISO reviewing access and security policy, supporting the successful renewal of ISO 27001 certification- Coached two product teams in their agile way of working, identified and fixed many anti-patterns, significantly improved cross-team visibility and internal communication- Implemented two heatmaps and session recording solutions to provide product leads with more insights about how our users use our platform
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Education
- Architecte et Manager des Systèmes d'Informations, Développement informatiqueCESI2010Architecte et Manager des Systèmes d'Informations, Développement informatique
Certifications
- Professional Scrum Master IIScrum.org2025