Summary
Andre Ben-Hamou is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling platform infrastructure and engineering organizations across gaming, social, and enterprise domains. As Co-Founder of PeopleStorming and a former Director of Engineering at Facebook, LinkedIn and Riot Games, he blends deep systems and orchestration expertise with a practical focus on growing leaders, organizational design and inclusive collaboration. He has led large platform initiatives—from scheduling and control-plane storage to deployment automation and service availability—that enabled faster launches and greater operational resilience. Known for coaching engineering leaders through reorgs and culture shifts, he pairs hands-on architecture experience with facilitation and training to help teams think more deeply and work more playfully. Trained in physics and nanomaterials at Imperial College, he brings a research-informed curiosity to solving complex socio-technical problems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MRes (DIC) Nanomaterials, MRes (DIC) Nanomaterials at Imperial College London