Pierre Bernard - Senior Engineering Manager

Q: Where is Pierre based?

Pierre is based in Berlin, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Pierre speak?

Pierre speaks the following languages: French (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Pierre have?

Pierre has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Pierre has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 6 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 9 months . Note that Pierre may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Pierre's latest experience?

Pierre's most recent position is Senior Engineering Manager at Audibene GmbH .

Q: What companies has Pierre worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Pierre has worked for Audibene GmbH and foodspring GmbH .

Q: Which industries is Pierre most experienced in?

Pierre is most experienced in industries like Food and Beverage , Information Technology , and Retail . Pierre also has some experience in Healthcare .

Q: Which business areas is Pierre most experienced in?

Pierre is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Product Development , and Project Management . Pierre also has some experience in Operations , Strategy , and Quality Assurance .

Q: Which industries has Pierre worked in recently?

Pierre has recently worked in industries like Food and Beverage , Retail , and Healthcare .

Q: Which business areas has Pierre worked in recently?

Pierre has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Product Development , and Project Management .

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Berlin, Germany

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Experience

Mar 2026 - Jun 2026

4 months

On-site

Senior Engineering Manager

Audibene GmbH

Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Product Owner to define functional and technical requirements
Quarterly Roadmap definition with Executives and Product Owner
Fix bug and develop new features in Go and Typescript
Manage and mentor full stack engineering team
System Design in a micro-service environment
Guarantee application security
Improve engineering efficiency and deliverable quality
Support automation with agentic-AI workflow
Achievements:
Improved security and data privacy awareness in the team with workshops around best practices, security measures and attacks types
Conceptualized, designed and successfully released a new real-time chat application for our partners improving partner/company relationship and collaboration efficiency in Go and Typescript
Reduced meeting hours for engineers by restructuring projects preparation workflow in collaboration with product team

Nov 2023 - Jun 2025

1 year 8 months

Berlin, Germany

Director Engineering & Technology

foodspring GmbH

Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Digital Product Lead to develop and implement digital strategy
OKR definition with the executive team
System Design
Manage and mentor engineering teams
Adapt engineering teams structure to serve efficiently the company
Supervise the development and maintenance of the ERP and integrations
Develop and implement efficiency frameworks with KPI, automation and process optimization
GDPR compliance and data privacy
Cybersecurity
Guarantee the uptime of our services
Budget and cost management
Achievements:
Learned to adapt and grow fast by leading the department made of 20 persons, from 12 different countries, including team leads, Digital Product team, engineers, QA and DevOps
Optimized cost and reduced financial pressure by lowering the department budget by 20% YoY
Maintained a stable and reliable department lowering the turn over (4% in two years) by building deep trust and candid communication with all teams
Built strong relationship with our vendors, leading to smoother discussion, cost efficient contracts and long lasting relationships
Rebuilt technology & engineering organization to support the new engineering strategy and productivity
Improved Stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Sales, HR) efficiency and satisfaction by optimizing and automating our ERP recurring processes, which also led to a 50% maintenance cost reduction.
Removed risk of GDPR violation by reducing response time, for users GDPR related requests, from 3 days to 5 minutes by implementing automations.
Enabled teams to deliver value faster and better to our customers by measuring and iterating on engineering KPIs such as lead time for changes, defect rate, MTTR, code quality score etc.
Defined and implemented Cybersecurity routines such as regular pentest, fishing test and clear company policies

May 2022 - Nov 2023

1 year 7 months

Berlin, Germany

Director Core Systems

foodspring GmbH

Responsibilities:
Lead the eCommerce engineering team reporting into the CIO
Support the CIO in architectural and infrastructural decisions
System Design
Lead the re-platforming of our eCommerce platform
Collaborate with Digital Product teams to implement digital strategy
Improve engineering efficiency and deliverable quality
Manage and mentor engineering teams
Achievements:
Learned to adapt and grow fast by scaling leading engineering teams of 12 persons, from 6 different countries, building customer facing applications such as our eCommerce platform and our Magazine
Improved Marketing team efficiency and targeting by conceptualizing and leading the development of a new Customer Data Platform application
Reduced cybersecurity and downtime risk by re-platforming both our eCommerce platform from a legacy system to a modern application as well as our Magazine
Sped up release processes and improved quality by implementing and improving software delivery operation through CI/CD, automation testing pipelines
Automized millions of records migration by building and deploying a middleware to transfer from our legacy platform to our new eCommerce application while ensuring GDPR compliance with legacy data.
Enabled teams to deliver value faster and better to our customers by measuring and iterating on engineering KPIs such as lead time for changes, defect rate, MTTR, code quality score etc.

Dec 2019 - May 2022

2 years 6 months

Berlin, Germany

Engineering Manager

foodspring GmbH

Responsibilities:
Define and implement coding best-practices
Support the CTO in architectural and infrastructural decisions
System Design
Manage and mentor the engineering team
Achievements:
Learned to adapt and grow fast by leading engineering team of 4 persons, from 3 different countries, building the foundation of our future eCommerce platform.
Enabled teams to deliver value faster and better to our customers by measuring and iterating on engineering KPIs such as lead time for changes, defect rate, MTTR, code quality score etc.
Hands-on backend development for our eCommerce platform built on Magento 1 while managing the team
Hands-on continuous improvement and maintenance of our infrastructure built in AWS

Apr 2016 - Dec 2019

3 years 9 months

Berlin, Germany

Backend Developer & Solution Architect

foodsprings GmbH

Built highly-scalable eCommerce infrastructure in AWS with no prior AWS knowledge. The infrastructure has been the foundation of the eCommerce channel and used for 8 years
Development for our eCommerce platform built on Magento 1
Sparing partner for our CTO for application architecture and infrastructure design
Collaboration with our CPO to quickly build and implement new features

Feb 2015 - Mar 2016

1 year 2 months

Berlin, Germany

On-site

Backend Developer

Syseleven Ltd.

Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

1 year 3 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Web Developer

Flagbit GmbH & Co. KG

Aug 2010 - Feb 2013

2 years 7 months

Remote

Freelance Engineer while studying

Self-Employed

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Retail, and Healthcare.

Food and Beverage

Information Technology

Retail

Healthcare

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Operations, Strategy, and Quality Assurance.

Information Technology

Product Development

Project Management

Operations

Strategy

Quality Assurance

Summary

I lead engineering and technology with a strong mix of hands-on technical depth, system design, and people management. I have grown from backend development and solution architecture into leading departments of up to 20 people across engineering, QA, DevOps and product-related functions, always focused on making teams effective, reliable and aligned with business goals.

My background is rooted in engineering excellence, infrastructure and platform modernisation. I have led re-platforming, built scalable systems, improved CI/CD and automation, reduced AWS costs by 20%, cut ERP maintenance costs by 50%, and reduced GDPR request response time from 3 days to 5 minutes through automation. I care about engineering quality, engineering coaching and growth, resilient services, cybersecurity, data privacy, and building team structures that last.

Skills

Hands On Manager
Cross-Functional Teams Scaling In Fast Changing Environment
Mentoring And Coaching Of Engineers
System Analyzes For Performance Optimisation
Complex System Design And Launched To Production
Engineering Strategy And Roadmap Definition
Process Architecture & Scaling
Ai-Assisted Coding With Proper Quality Guardrails
Agentic-Ai Automation With Proper Security Guardrails
Cloud Infrastructure Expertise (Aws)
Engineering EﬃCiency Improvement (Mttr, Lead Time For Changes, Defect Rate, Etc.)
Automation And Process Optimization (Celigo, N8n)
A/B Testing Conceptualization And Analyzes
Rest‑Api Integration & Middleware Design
Cross‑Functional Stakeholder Management
Agile / Scrum & Ci/Cd Pipelines
Gdpr & Data‑Privacy Compliance

Languages

French

Native

German

Advanced

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2011 - Sep 2013

EPITECH

Master in Information Technology · Information Technology · Paris, France

Oct 2011 - Nov 2012

Kent University

Master of Science in Computing & Entrepreneurship · Computing & Entrepreneurship · Canterbury, United Kingdom

Oct 2008 - Jun 2011

EPITECH

Bachelor in Information Technology · Information Technology · Lyon, France

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 8

Experience in Food and Beverage 9 y

Avg length 1 y 9 m

Longest experience 3 y 8 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 1 (Germany)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Senior Engineering Manager, Director Engineering & Technology, Director Core Systems

Main industries Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Retail

Main business areas Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Profile

Created

April 2025

Last Update

July 2026

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Where is Pierre based?

Pierre is based in Berlin, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Pierre speak?

Pierre speaks the following languages: French (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Pierre have?

Pierre has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Pierre has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 6 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 9 months. Note that Pierre may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Pierre be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Pierre would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior Engineering Manager, Director Engineering & Technology, Director Core Systems.

What is Pierre's latest experience?

Pierre's most recent position is Senior Engineering Manager at Audibene GmbH.

What companies has Pierre worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Pierre has worked for Audibene GmbH and foodspring GmbH.

Which industries is Pierre most experienced in?

Pierre is most experienced in industries like Food and Beverage, Information Technology, and Retail. Pierre also has some experience in Healthcare.

Which business areas is Pierre most experienced in?

Pierre is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management. Pierre also has some experience in Operations, Strategy, and Quality Assurance.

Which industries has Pierre worked in recently?

Pierre has recently worked in industries like Food and Beverage, Retail, and Healthcare.

Which business areas has Pierre worked in recently?

Pierre has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

What is Pierre's education?

Pierre holds a Master in Information Technology from EPITECH, a Master in Computing & Entrepreneurship from Kent University and a Bachelor in Information Technology from EPITECH.

What is the availability of Pierre?

Pierre is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Pierre?

Pierre's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.