Bernard Debecker is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on and managerial experience, currently serving as Head of Engineering at AVIV Group where he leads 21 developers across three countries and four Engineering Managers. He specializes in transforming two decades of legacy real-estate products into scalable, white‑labeled platforms while aligning technical roadmaps with business strategy in a multi-brand European merger. Bernard blends people-first management—hiring, mentoring, and running skip-level 1:1s—with operational rigor, improving deployment frequency, incident resolution, and delivery predictability. His background ranges from building high-performance front-end systems at FanDuel to setting up CI and real‑time collaboration features earlier in his career, giving him both deep delivery experience and technical credibility. Based in Brittany, he’s known for translating complex legacy challenges into practical engineering processes that scale across distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Training Course (4 days) Adobe Illustrator, Training Course (4 days) Adobe Illustrator at Centre PI
Secondary education Photography, Secondary education Photography at INRACI
Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering Computer Science at EPFC
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 12 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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Bernard Debecker - Head Of Engineering at AVIV Group