About

Mathieu Chauvin is a seasoned engineering manager with over 13 years of experience in commerce, billing, and payments platforms, including PCI and SOX compliance. He is currently the Senior Engineering Manager at Roblox, where he is responsible for hiring senior engineers. Mathieu is passionate about coaching and building strong, talented teams and has expertise in large-scale distributed systems and building operational excellence in high-demanding environments. Mathieu's specialties include management, coaching, and agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. He is also experienced in AWS, Java, J2EE, Cassandra, SDLC, and test-driven development. Additionally, he has expertise in high-efficiency recurring payment systems, including processor redundancy, transaction recycling, account updater, and BIN routing strategies. Mathieu has worked with various payment methods, including credit cards (Paymentech, Worldpay, Adyen), direct debit (SEPA, Brazil), push (iDeal), and PayPal. Before joining Roblox, Mathieu worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Uber, where he managed teams of high-performance backend and full-stack engineers. He was responsible for building a global payments platform for scale and IPO readiness, which had over $50 billion in gross bookings and more than 110 million active users. Mathieu also designed the long-term vision for the team, sold it to upper-management, and empowered the team to own it. He also handled the strategic planning and set up an efficient data-driven tactical project management using Scrum and Jira. Mathieu hired most of the team and created opportunities to develop their talent. Mathieu has also worked as an Engineering Manager at Apple, where he re-engineered the iTunes commerce platform from the legacy monolith into micro-services. He was responsible for cross-functional and cross-organizational strategic planning and project management. Mathieu holds a Masters in Science in Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.) in Computer Science from Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité. He also completed a Leadership & Strategy program at Harvard Business School Executive Education. Mathieu's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Microservices, test, Java, Cassandra, and Backend. With over 20 years of relevant experience, Mathieu is a highly skilled and experienced engineering manager who is passionate about coaching and building strong, talented teams.