About

Valentin Rabanelly is an experienced Engineering Manager at aircall, with over 12 years of relevant experience in the field. He leads the full rewrite of the front-end Typescript/React app and manages the Phone teams, which includes 2 squads, 3 stacks (Web, iOS, Android), and 12 engineers. Valentin is responsible for defining the long-term strategy, synchronizing teams, improving agility, and reducing friction between stacks. He conducts quarterly assessments and objectives, bi-weekly 1-1s, and career path evolution. Additionally, he is involved in the hiring process by sourcing candidates, leading interviews, and improving onboarding and offboarding processes. Valentin's skills include choosing technical solutions and defining best practices for developers, potentializing individual strengths to build efficient teams with great group spirit, defining individual objectives, and showing the possible paths to achieve them. He has the ability to anticipate roadblocks and propose solutions with forecast. Previously, Valentin worked as a CTO at quelle energie, where he led and structured the technical team of five full-stack developers and started a new product on a recent stack with high business value. He set up the scrum methodology (Jira, TDD, retrospectives) and led the apps enhancement, including stack update, deployment with Docker on GCP, and modularization. At drivy, he worked as a Customer Support Engineer, where he analyzed the Customer Support team tooling needs and developed tech solutions. He also built many integrations with Google Apps and Zendesk and automated time-consuming tasks. Valentin holds a Diplôme d'ingénieur from ecole des mines de douai, where he studied Ingénierie des systèmes d'information et de communication (ISIC). His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Android, Typescript, iOS, Frontend, Web, Docker, and GCP. Valentin is a skilled professional with a proven track record of aligning business and technical roadmaps, taking over an existing team and product, and dealing with people and financial constraints.