Experience

Omada Health

Full-time – 10+ years

Vice President of Engineering (Aug 2021 – Present)

  • Promoted from VP of Architecture and Infrastructure to lead the entire engineering organization
  • Oversee architecture, infrastructure, and cross-functional engineering initiatives aligned with company strategy
  • Drive adoption and integration of AI/ML technologies across the organization
  • Champion AI/ML initiatives, fostering collaboration between Applied AI, Engineering, and Product teams while navigating Legal, Compliance, and Cybersecurity

Distinguished Software Engineer & Engineering Leader (Nov 2015 – Aug 2021)

  • Trusted partner to the CTO, bridging technology and strategy
  • Advanced through Senior Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, and Distinguished Software Engineer roles
  • Partnered with executives and engineering leadership to align technology and architecture with strategic vision
  • Led the flagship end-user product team (Ruby/Rails, React/Redux, Postgres/ElasticSearch/Redis, AWS)
  • Designed, built, and maintained the in-house Experimentation Framework (“Omada Labs”), scaling to 3M+ events/day and hundreds of experiments
  • Designed the System Design interviews for Staff+ engineers

Berkeley SkyDeck

Advisor (Sep 2024 – Present)

  • Advise and mentor startup founders and leadership teams on strategic technology decisions, product development, and scaling operations
  • Provide guidance on aligning engineering practices with business goals and navigating early-stage challenges

Per Angusta

8+ years

Executive Engineering Mentor and Advisor (Oct 2015 – Aug 2023)

  • Advised the engineering organization with technical expertise and strategic insights
  • Mentored team to enhance technical capabilities and foster innovation

Chief Technology Officer / Senior Software Engineer (Apr 2015 – Nov 2015)

  • Spearheaded design and development of the flagship product in Ruby on Rails
  • Led a major rewrite of the main computational system

Earlier

  • Senior Software Engineer & Product Owner at Worldline (Jul 2013 - Apr 2015)
  • Bootstrapped evome, an agile agency specialized in Ruby and JavaScript/CoffeeScript
  • First employee at shazino, building products for biotech companies
  • Lead Architect/Developer at Leadformance, a dealer/PoS locator (now Yellow Pages/Solocal)

Open Source

Infrastructure & Distributed Systems

PostgreSQL

  • Holycorn: PostgreSQL multi-purpose Ruby Foreign Data Wrapper (C) – 165 stars
  • git_fdw: PostgreSQL Git Foreign Data Wrapper (C) – 49 stars

Ruby

Cryptography

  • blake2: BLAKE2 fast secure hashing for Ruby – 28 stars
  • tweetnacl: TweetNaCl Ruby C-extension

Systems & Security

  • EmulationResources: Collection of resources for emulator developers – 102 stars
  • isolate: Prevent processes from accessing unauthorized files (C)

Rust

  • ers: ERb-like templating engine for Rust
  • chrust: a Rust version manager based on chruby

Fun

  • fruby: A French version of Ruby, based on mruby (C) – 19 stars
  • arnoldc.rb: The Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language, in Ruby

Community

  • RuLu (Ruby Lugdunum, Lyon): Initiating founder and ongoing organizer (2010-2013) of one of the most renowned Ruby conferences in France (~120 attendees)
  • Code Retreat Lyon: initiating founder and occasional facilitator
  • Occasional lecturer and mentor
  • Conference speaker in English and French