Summary
Chris Woodrow is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building enterprise-grade systems, currently leading teams at Doctolib from Poitiers, France. He began as a fullstack Java developer and evolved into roles focusing on big data, high-availability architectures, cloud, and enterprise strategy, often bridging product and platform concerns. At MAIF he led the development guild, owned the company’s open source strategy and a technology accelerator, and acted as product owner for a service platform—experience that blends technical leadership with organizational change. Earlier roles as CTO-level tech lead and architect exposed him to Hadoop/Spark/Kafka, Cassandra-based archival systems, and AWS-driven solutions, giving him deep operational and data infrastructure know-how. He believes developers best serve business problems when they master underlying technologies, and he pairs hands-on technical fluency with mentorship and strategic thinking. Multilingual and conference-experienced, he quietly combines practical engineering craftsmanship with enterprise-wide architectural vision.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 (M2), Computer Science, Master 2 (M2), Computer Science at Université de Poitiers
French, English