Théo Carrive
VP Engineering at Mistral AI
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolThéo Carrive is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native and security-focused products from Paris. Currently VP Engineering at Mistral AI, he previously led ~50 engineers across Code Security and Cloud Security domains at Datadog, shipping SCA, SAST, IAST, CSPM, CIEM and cloud VM solutions. As former CTO of Cheerz he grew engineering from a handful to 40+ people, architected high-throughput e‑commerce systems and operationalized CI/CD across a hybrid GCP/AWS/bare‑metal stack. He blends hands-on backend expertise (Ruby/Rails, Postgres, eBPF-powered workload protection) with product and people management, hiring and scaling distributed teams across Europe and the US. Notably, his trajectory spans early-stage product engineering to leading security platform initiatives, reflecting a rare mix of consumer‑facing product build and deep cloud security operations. Based in Paris with an Arts et Métiers engineering background, he brings pragmatic execution and systems-level thinking to fast-moving AI and security challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Maths Sup & Maths Spé PCSI - PSI, Maths Sup & Maths Spé PCSI - PSI at Lycée Blaise Pascal, OrsayMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
datadog10
hugo9
terraform-provider9
terraform9
android9
nsoperation9
android-apps9
directive8
documentation8
automation8
http-header8
ruby8
ios8
react-native7
mobile7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rocketlobster/grobber
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Image generator based on a string value
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
image-generatorstring
rocketlobster/curver
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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