Summary
Nicolas Maillard is an experienced technology leader with 11+ years building and scaling data platforms and field engineering teams across EMEA, currently serving as Area VP & Tech GM Field Engineering SEMEA at Databricks. He combines a strong technical background in web analytics, big data and NoSQL with a pragmatic product mindset honed through frequent work with smaller, agile companies and multiple presales/post-sales leadership roles. Nicolas has repeatedly bridged sales, data science and engineering to turn analytics and user behavior insights into operational, production-grade systems for finance, telco and retail customers. His career includes founding a data-influence startup and early contributions to recommendation and content-analytics products, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak alongside enterprise-grade delivery. Fluent in deploying scalable algorithms where statistics meet computer science, he thrives on making complex data patterns accessible and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting teacher, Virtual reality and motion capture, Visiting teacher, Virtual reality and motion capture at Chiba University
Master's degree, Computer science, Master's degree, Computer science at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
visiting student, visiting student at Stanford University
English, German, Japanese