Emmanuel Bastien is a Principal Architect based in Amsterdam with 14 years of experience building and scaling digital products across energy, telecom, travel, and consulting. He combines hands-on polyglot programming and DevOps/FOSS evangelism with strategic leadership—hiring and coaching teams of 30–50 engineers and shaping cross-enterprise architectures. Emmanuel has led cloud-native and data-driven transformations at Shell and VEON, delivering production-grade analytics, billing and CRM integrations, and GDPR-aware data platforms for millions of customers. He excels at translating business strategy into future-proof technical stacks and operational models, from petabyte-scale Spark jobs to resilient API-driven systems. Notably, he brings startup agility into large organizations, having created product delivery capabilities and engineering cultures inside corporate digital startups. His background in robotics research and early high-performance transactional systems gives him a rare mix of low-level systems thinking and modern data/ML engineering.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma First Class Scientific section, High school diploma First Class Scientific section at Lycée Charles et Adrien DUPUY
Master's Degree in Engineering with honours Electricity and Telecoms, Master's Degree in Engineering with honours Electricity and Telecoms at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
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