Pierre – Kubernetes, Golang, experts in Lemon.io

Pierre

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Engineering Manager
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Pierre – Kubernetes, Golang

Pierre is a senior backend and infrastructure engineer with 14+ years of experience, specializing in Go, system design, and PostgreSQL. He has led architecture and implementation for AI/ML and platform systems, including recent work on autonomous agent deployments at Google PSO. His strengths include technical leadership, system design, and client communication, though his hand-written Go is currently rusty.

15 years of commercial experience in
AI
Disaster management
Gamedev
Healthtech
IoT
Machine learning
Marketing
Platforms
Gaming software
Digital asset management
Main technologies
Kubernetes
9 years
Golang
8.5 years
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Experience Highlights

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - AI
Nov 2025 - Ongoing9 months
Project Overview

Working as part of Google Delta Team working on some google's most challenging customer engagements.

Responsibilities:
  • Operate as a staff-level technical leader for strategic customer implementations on Google Cloud, aligning technical direction, delivery sequencing, and stakeholder expectations.
  • Lead complex cross-functional customer engagements in AI/ML, shaping solution approach and execution without formal line management responsibility.
  • Partner with customer engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders to drive implementation decisions, resolve delivery blockers, and keep high-impact programs moving.
  • Bring executive-level communication and hands-on technical depth to Google Cloud engagements, helping customers convert ambitious AI goals into executable programs.
  • Represent Google with senior technical credibility across customer accounts, combining architecture guidance with pragmatic implementation support in the AI and ML domain.
Project Tech stack:
Claude API
Claude LLM
GCP
ADK
Gemini API
Golang
Python
BigQuery
SQL
AI
LLM
Machine learning
AI agent development
VP of Engineering
Jun 2024 - Sep 20251 year 3 months
Project Overview

An immersive safety training platform for enterprise workforces, combining game-based learning with scalable training delivery and learning management system integration. I led engineering across game development, web, backend, AI, platform, and QA, with a focus on reducing delivery costs, accelerating customer onboarding, and improving release frequency.

Responsibilities:
  • Built the internal engineering org from a fully outsourced baseline, hiring about 10 engineers and growing the web team from 3 to 7.
  • Redesigned training delivery from GPU streaming to pre-rendered video, cutting per-trainee costs by about 90% and removing Nvidia GDN dependency.
  • Reduced enterprise onboarding time from more than 6 months to under 4 weeks via SCORM integration and unblocked go-live for new customers.
  • Led game development, frontend/backend cross-functional teams, AI, platform, and QA with managers for AI, QA, and game development reporting in.
  • Improved deployment frequency from bi-weekly to multiple times per day by standardizing CI/CD, test automation, and release practices.
Project Tech stack:
CI
CD
Typescript
JavaScript
Node.js
Nest.js
React
PostgreSQL
Redis
AWS
Docker
Terraform
VP of Engineering
Aug 2022 - May 20241 year 9 months
Project Overview

A conversational marketing platform that helped brands engage customers through messaging apps and automated conversations. I led the engineering organization, overseeing platform modernization, AI/ML, infrastructure, and delivery as the business scaled, including support for large enterprise messaging campaigns.

Responsibilities:
  • Scaled the company from about 15 to about 60 people, with roughly half the organization in Engineering reporting in.
  • Led 3 engineering managers plus AI/ML and infrastructure teams, and owned performance reviews, leveling, and quarterly goal-setting.
  • Co-led weekly leadership meetings with co-founders to align roadmap, delivery, and commercial priorities.
  • Completed migrations from Angular.js to Vue.js and PHP to Golang, improving performance and maintainability.
  • Scaled systems to handle 1 million messages instantly, enabling major enterprise campaign launches.
Project Tech stack:
Datadog
Golang
Vue.js
PHP
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
CI
CD
AWS
GCP
Python
JavaScript
LLM
AI
Principal Software Architect / Technical Lead
Jan 2020 - Aug 20222 years 6 months
Project Overview

A conversational marketing platform for brands to build and run automated customer conversations on messaging channels. I led technical architecture and modernization, introducing Go services, Vue.js, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD foundations to improve maintainability and move from lengthy deployments to continuous delivery.

Responsibilities:
  • Reduced deployment time from 90 minutes per environment to continuous delivery via Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Initiated migrations from PHP to Golang and Angular.js to Vue.js, alongside Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD foundations.
Project Tech stack:
Kubernetes
Terraform
CI
CD
PHP
Golang
Angular.js
Vue.js
Docker
JavaScript
Software Architect / Technical Lead
Jan 2019 - Dec 201911 months
Project Overview

A digital platform for waste-management operations, supporting route planning and pickup/drop-off ordering following an acquisition. I led architecture and technical delivery, coordinated external engineering teams, and helped build an in-house digital consulting capability for new business initiatives.

Responsibilities:
  • Coordinated up to 50 external engineers and built an in-house digital consulting team for new business initiatives.
  • Supported M&A activities including due diligence and on-site evaluations across US locations.
  • Led the end-to-end digital platform for route planning and pickup/drop-off ordering after the Tönsmeyer acquisition.
Project Tech stack:
Golang
Kubernetes
Terraform
Microsoft Azure
Python
Ruby on Rails
Software Engineer IoT Platform
Sep 2017 - Dec 20181 year 3 months
Project Overview

A scalable and generic IoT platform for different use cases across the OSRAM universe, suppliers, and customers.

Responsibilities:

Helped build a scalable, reusable IoT platform for OSRAM, its suppliers, and customers as part of a small team of engineers and IoT specialists in the Berlin Innovation Hub.

Built IoT data ingestion and persistence systems with real-time monitoring, telemetry, and security handling.

Reduced data-point processing time by 90% through profiling, hot-path optimization, and scaling strategies.

Project Tech stack:
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka
Microsoft Azure
Node.js
Docker
Golang
Grafana
Terraform
Founding Software Engineer, Backend
Oct 2017 - Mar 20184 months
Project Overview

A patient management platform for healthcare providers. As a founding backend engineer, I built the backend foundation using Node.js, C#, .NET Core, and MSSQL, with testing and documentation to support healthcare regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities:
  • Built backend infrastructure for a patient management system using Node.js, C#, .NET Core, and MSSQL.
  • Implemented testing and documentation to support healthcare regulatory requirements.
Project Tech stack:
Node.js
C#
.NET Core
Microsoft SQL Server
JavaScript
SQL
Software Engineer
Jul 2017 - Sep 20171 month
Project Overview

Agency work focused on customer-centric solutions.

Responsibilities:

Delivered customer-focused software solutions during a three-month agency contract, working with PHP and MySQL.

Project Tech stack:
MySQL
PHP
SQL
Software Engineer
Mar 2014 - Aug 20173 years 5 months
Project Overview

Freelance and contractor work, mostly in disaster recovery engagements.

Responsibilities:

Delivered freelance and contract software projects, with a focus on recovering troubled projects and taking ownership of scoping and delivery.

Worked across Node.js, React, Redux, C#, and PHP, adapting the technology approach to each client’s needs.

Project Tech stack:
Node.js
React
C#
PHP
Redux
JavaScript
Co-Founder & CTO
Mar 2011 - Nov 20143 years 7 months
Project Overview

A company founded to provide multiplayer gaming solutions for gamers.

Responsibilities:

Co-founded and scaled the company to $70K in monthly recurring revenue, culminating in its acquisition by a competitor.

Owned commercial and technical outcomes across product, platform, and operations.

Reduced server provisioning time from four days to immediate availability through distributed scheduling and automated IP assignment.

Project Tech stack:
PHP
Proxmox Virtual Environment
SQL

Education

2013
Information Technology
Associate's degree

Languages

German
Advanced
English
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