Nicolas Bonnefon
Senior Director - Head Of Engineering Department at Tipalti
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicolas Bonnefon is a seasoned engineering leader with 16+ years building and scaling complex, high‑performing teams and platforms across embedded systems and cloud-native stacks. Currently Senior Director and Head of Engineering at Tipalti in London, he blends deep technical roots (Kotlin, Clojure, React, AWS, Kafka; earlier work in C++, Rust, Lisp) with a focus on architecture, delivery cadence and people development. He has a track record of introducing repeatable practices—architecture review processes, cross-team guilds and fixed-time variable-scope cycles—that improved scalability, visibility and retention across global engineering organizations. Comfortable moving between low-level performance tuning for constrained devices and shaping high-level platform strategy, he drives pragmatic decompositions of monoliths into maintainable services. Known for hiring and mentoring strong teams (over a dozen direct hires and >90% retention in managed teams), he pairs hands-on technical judgment with an instinct for aligning engineering with business outcomes. Trained as an engineer in microelectronics and telecommunications, he brings a systems mindset to both product architecture and organisational design.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Prepa PSI*, Prepa PSI* at Lycée La Fayette, Clermont FerrandMaster's Degree Microelectronics and telecommunications, Master's Degree Microelectronics and telecommunications at ENSICAEN - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
log-viewer10
logging10
linux7
logger7
activerecord6
cpp6
serial-communication6
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
metaprogramming6
windows6
nsis6
ruby6
qt6
tmux5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nickbnf/glogg
Aug 2009 - Aug 2018
A fast, advanced log explorer.
Contributions:514 commits, 22 PRs, 57 pushes in 9 years 1 month
logviewerexplorerlog-viewerlogging
alexeicolin/glogg
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
A fast, advanced log explorer.
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
log-viewerloggerlogginglog-parserlogviewer
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