Experience - Nicolas Assouad

Nicolas Assouad

Software engineer and Entrepreneur

Language

Rust

OCaml

Python

C/C++

Framework

React

Next.js

Vue

Svelte

Angular

Database

MongoDb

PostgreSQL

Tool

Git

Docker

DevOps

GCP

AWS

Vercel

Deno Deploy

Ansible

Soft Skill

Management

Mentoring

Autonomy

Initiative

Communication

10/2023 - Present

(Paris)

Senior Software Engineer - Lucca

Transfer of Compwise features inside Lucca's products

Angular

SQL

Git

10/2022 - 10/2023

(Paris)

Co-founder & CTO - Compwise (bought by Lucca)

Compwise is a platform for managing compensation policy.

Fast execution, ideation to MVP: 1 month.
100+ user interviews done with HRs, CFOs, and CEOs.
Design, architecture and implementation of the different versions of the platform.
100 000+ employee salary data collected to build our benchmark.
200 companies in free trial / 5 companies in paying plans.
Bought by Lucca

NodeJs

GCP run

MongoDb

React

Git

Docker

Entrepreneurship

User interview

UX research

09/2022 - 12/2022

(Paris)

Founder in Residence - Entrepreneur First

€100k investment to support the growth of Compwise

Entrepreneurship

User interview

UX research

05/2022 - 08/2022

(Paris)

Senior Software Engineer - Joko

Internationalization of the chrome extension and the web app.
Conducting fit and technical interviews for new engineers.

NodeJs

AWS

Lambda

DynamoDb

React

Git

07/2021 - 05/2022

(Paris)

Senior Software Engineer - Mindmesh (YC S21)

Mindmesh is an early stage international startup based in Boston and Paris which develop a productivity webapp for product managers.

User research with the CEO and the CTO.
Implementation of successive MVPs (3 pivots).
Migration of the drive/slack/jira integrations from Python to Typescript fully typed.
Migration of the rich text editor framework from Draft.js to Plate and open source contributions.
Data visualization with D3.js.
Enforce good practice (introduce strict Typescript option and linter in an existing codebase, code review).

NodeJs

Docker

Bash

Git

PostgreSQL

React

Python

09/2020 - 06/2021

(Paris)

Software Engineer - Cour de Cassation

Inside the program "Entrepreneur d'Intérêt général", I worked in the Court of Cassation to open justice data.

Conducted over 40 user interviews. Weekly meeting with the Court of Cassation's executive officers to set up the roadmap.
Inside a pluridisciplinary team of 4 people, I led the design and the architecture of an open source application, LABEL, to annotate and anonymize justice decisions
Mentoring around software quality.
First MVP released in 3 months.
Best software development practices: mono-repository, high test coverage, strict typing, containerization.
Used by 20 public agents daily, this new tool increased the number of annotated justice decisions per user and per day from 15 to 100.
Succeeded handover, the project is still under active development.

NodeJs

Docker

Bash

Git

MongoDb

React

GraphQL

02/2019 - 09/2020

(Paris)

Software Engineer - 360Learning

Design, development, and production launch of the integrations to third party online courses platforms (Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, Edx,...). Thousands of courses were synchronized daily.
Redesign of the architecture of the connectors to the APIs. The time to develop a new connector for a new third party platform went down from 1 month of work to 2 days with a complete test coverage.
More than 30 technical interviews realized for the the recruiting process of other software engineers.

NodeJs

Docker

Bash

Git

MongoDb

Vue

03/2018 - 09/2018

(Paris)

Research Intern - LIP6, UPMC