Summary
Donatien Criaud is a lead engineer based in Paris with eight years of experience building backend infrastructure and platform tooling, currently leading engineering at Inicio. He progressed rapidly from software engineer to lead within the same company after earlier engineering roles at Twitter and BCG GAMMA, bringing production-scale systems experience from high-throughput environments. Comfortable diving into low-level work, he experiments with Rust and generative art in his spare time, reflecting a curiosity for new languages and creative coding. Trained at CentraleSupélec with a strong math and physics prep background, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with pragmatic delivery. Colleagues would describe him as an infrastructure-focused engineer who balances hands-on implementation with platform-level thinking.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Cursus Ingénieur Centralien, Cursus Ingénieur Centralien at CentraleSupélec
Classe préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles Mathématiques et Physique, Classe préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles Mathématiques et Physique at Lycée Clemenceau
Baccalauréat, Baccalauréat at Lycée Jules Vernes
French, English, Spanish