Summary
Vincent Riou is an engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling secure, high-performance infrastructure and SaaS products across cybersecurity, privacy, telecom and big data. Currently managing Falcon for IT at CrowdStrike, he grew a remote-first team and shipped backend systems that enabled querying over a million hosts rapidly while helping the product reach meaningful ARR in its first year. He has a strong track record of designing CI/CD pipelines, quality strategies, and agile processes to enable small teams to move quickly—demonstrated previously in roles at InvizBox and VPNCity where he ran live fleets of routers and multi-cloud VPN services alongside consumer apps. Vincent combines hands-on firmware and backend deliverables with people leadership and operational rigor, and he’s equally comfortable in technical trenches or defining cross-team roadmaps. A former founder and early engineering hire through multiple acquisitions, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a practical focus on reliable, scalable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Math Spé, Mathematics and Physics, Math Spé, Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Chateaubriand, Rennes
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Ecole nationale supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen
French, English