Summary
Damien Gouyette is a Senior Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience building and leading data-focused engineering teams across cloud-native and big-data environments. Based in Saint-Avertin, France, he combines hands-on technical depth in Scala, Spark, Kafka and AWS with a strong emphasis on Agile practices, DORA metrics and CI/CD to deliver high-quality, incremental value. He has led large migrations (RDS to Aurora, Kafka pipelines to AWS), redesigned data processing to handle multi-terabyte workloads in under an hour, and maintains a habit of reviewing every PR to keep code quality high. Damien prioritizes developer growth and autonomy, coaching teams in radical candor and embedding constructive feedback loops that scale from junior engineers to managers. He’s comfortable translating product needs into scoped epics and user stories while onboarding product managers to improve delivery alignment. A pragmatic technologist, he blends architecture, operational rigor and people leadership to turn complex data challenges into reliable production systems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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English, French