Summary
Florian Bougel is an Engineering Manager and Release Manager based in Zurich with eight years of experience building high-performing, cross-functional teams and reliable web products. He blends people-first leadership—focusing on psychological safety, career progression, and thoughtful hiring—with strong technical judgment in front-end engineering, architecture, and release practices. At JobCloud he drove initiatives that raised retention to 83% through journey segmentation and AI features like CV parsing and automated job matching, and he led platform upgrades from design system migrations to Core Web Vitals improvements. Florian is pragmatic about execution: he favors clear priorities, measurable trade-offs, and processes that free teams to focus on impact. He pairs hands-on frontend and search engineering experience (Elasticsearch, Kibana) with orchestration skills across Product, UX and stakeholders, and even ran large offsites to align long-term roadmaps. Outside tech, his background in music performance hints at a collaborative, disciplined approach to leading creative teams.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Performance, Music Performance, Bachelor of Music Performance, Music Performance at International Music College Freiburg
German, English, French