Fabien Chazot

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Change.org is a petition based, social change platform, with over 500 Million users across 190+ countries. The company consists of 250 employees, distributed in 19 offices in the world. Engineering has 80+ employees, based in 3 offices - San Francisco, Victoria (BC) and Paris - as well as a few remote workers. After a total shift in revenue model in 2017, joined the company to support the business growth, - Drove the company to profitability in a 2 years timeframe, ARR doubling YoY. - Opened a new office in Paris, France, in January 2019, to manage a broader talent pool, increase hiring capacity, and reduce engineering costs - Defined technical strategy, to progressively migrate systems to more efficient technologies and architectures, reducing costs (reduced software run rate costs by 10% YoY), increasing performance and stability, increasing teams velocity and ability to execute - More than doubled the engineering team from 30 to 80+ in about a year, to increase our ability to deliver product features, as well as accelerate our technology transition, with high success in diversity hiring, achieving gender parity in leadership roles, and 2/3 of hires from underrepresented communities - Redefined product engineering teams structure, to create autonomous teams, enabling scaling up while maintaining high execution capabilities - Built a communication platform for sending over 10 billion emails per year, dividing the global cost by 3, switching from our 3rd party tool to our own platform, and generated over $500k of direct ARR due to performance improvement. Project was delivered on time regarding contract and financial constraints.

With a strong revenue model focused primarily on consumer credit cards, Credit Karma was looking to diversify their business model and expand its business beyond the United States. Recruited to transform a monolithic core into a micro services architecture to enable data usage across new products and to lead the effort to expand into new global markets. - Built the engineering and product strategy to enable international business expansion and led the execution of the Canada launch, which included complete cross-company collaboration - Led strategic architectural transformation from a PHP monolith to Scala & PHP micro services, enabling decoupling, improving performance and scalability - Created and led engineering communications through dedicated Twitter account, talks, meetups, and technical blog to improve the company image and hire top talent - Acted Chair of the internal open source software initiative to attract talent, accelerate brand image, improve quality and give back to the engineering community - Improved processes & performance for engineering teams, and teams throughout the company, building a continuous improvement mindset by leading the company agile initiative with Kanban trainings (150+ people trained in the first 5 months) - Launched the Credit Karma Mentorship Program which will be a driving force in the investment the company makes in the advancement and growth of its employees

Led change management for new processes and tools to improve communication and efficiency within both the engineering realm as well as cross-team collaboration capacity

With the business experiencing a decline, was recruited to fundamentally transform a stagnant Engineering Department, define and complete key IT initiatives, implement strategic technologies to help change the business model from the desktop to the mobile market, and capitalize on data with innovative algorithms and machine learning. - Increased the engineering workforce from 30 to 120+ people, that enabled quick growth to achieve a new challenging product roadmap with a full technology transformation - Managed teams by building a culture of high expectations, providing feedback and regular coaching, which led to improved job satisfaction and a retention rate close to 100% - Implemented Kanban and Scrum Agile methodologies and collaborative tools across the company, which increased the productivity, and substantially improved quality and satisfaction metrics - Successfully promoted Quality First with continuous integration, continuous deployment, TDD, BDD, exploratory testing, metrics… that reduced dramatically the time to market, divided the number of bugs in production by 10 and significantly reduced the need for manual testing - Started and led a global technical transformation (PHP4 Monolith > PHP5, Java & Scala SOA, AngularJS, NodeJS) that sustained innovation, and company shift to mobile - Developed the e-reputation, with meetups hosting, social networking management, speaking at conferences, events and schools, that transform the perception of the company, reduced the hiring budget and helped in recruiting higher level talent - Created a machine learning department that opened new products, business opportunities and significantly moved the KPIs across the board from +25% to +100% in the first 6 months

#1 e-commerce French travel company for vacation packages with promovacances.com as the main brand. After successful management of M&A projects for the group and being CTO of a subsidiary company, as well as the HQ VP of Engineering, moved into a full-time position in M&A at the end of 2010 to transform the new challenges the company was facing into successes. Managed 50+ people over 3 locations: Paris, Nice, and outsourcing in Romania. - Led the architecture transformation (ASP monolith to Java SOA) - Supported the expansion of the company in Europe - Conducted IT M&A strategy, audited and assessed companies’ infrastructure systems effectiveness and successfully led synergies and integrations with the acquired companies in order to reduce the global headcount and accelerate the business

Paris, France