Laurent Paris

VP Engineering, Computer Software

Hi, I'm Laurent Paris. Welcome to my profile!

Laurent Paris's Bio:

Laurent Paris's Experience:

• Director of Engineering at Yahoo!

  August 2010 - January 2012

  o Responsible for the set of new platforms used to acquire, enrich and serve all content powering Y! Media experiences (News, Sports, Finance, ...). More than 100 sites were successfully migrated from legacy architectures to these new platforms in less than 1 year. o Led the development of a key-value store with strong SLAs in term of scalability (10TB of memory storage) and performance (over 5,000 requests/s served in 10ms on average) to serve all Y! Media content. o Led the development of a grid computing platform based on a 900 nodes Hadoop cluster to process and enrich all Y! Media content before serving. o Led the development of the world biggest HBase cluster (900 nodes) to store and mine a copy of the web crawl (40B documents) provided by Microsoft Bing. This web crawl data is used by Y! scientists to develop highly relevant experiences. o Led the development of a vertical crawling infrastructure to enable Y! engineering groups to perform deep crawl of specific sites and enrich their experiences. o Led the development and initiated the redesign of the Geo platform used to provide location information relevant to any piece of content, ad or user query served at Y!.

• Director of Engineering at Yahoo!

  January 2008 - August 2010

  o Responsible for the back-end infrastructures for Y! Local and Y! Maps (content acquisition and processing, search, monetization). o Management of engineering teams in US, Europe and India. o Definition of roadmaps with product managers, allocation of development resources and coaching of first-level engineering managers to ensure a time to market delivery of new features. o Led the development of a global platform based on grid technologies (Hadoop) to power all Y! Local sites around the world. o Worked on a program with Y! Search to improve relevance of Local data in web search results. o Managed the transition of Local and Maps teams to Scrum methodology.

• Senior Engineering Manager at Yahoo!

  November 2004 - January 2008

  o Led the development and evolution of all applications used by Y! business managers, merchants and affiliates for Kelkoo (www.kelkoo.com accounting for more than 100 M$ yearly revenue in Yahoo Europe). o Managed applications encompassing extranets for merchants and affiliates, financial and business intelligence systems, syndication platform and traffic acquisition optimization applications. o Responsible for the growth of a team of around 20 engineers through management of performance, coaching and training. o Monitoring of the overall software quality and respect of the development processes by the development teams through quality dashboards. o Led the European side of a worldwide program involving several EU and US teams to integrate Kelkoo infrastructure into Y! Panama platform. o Managed the transition from a waterfall to an agile development methodology and setup of continuous integration for over 70 engineers.

• R&D Project Manager at Eloquant

  June 2002 - November 2004

  o Led a team of engineers developing a next-generation telephony platform (Java, VoIP, VXML) with strong requirements in term of availability and performance. o Responsible for the platform roadmap and the quality of the software delivered to the operations team. o Designed and managed the development of a proof of concept enabling 3rd party applications to use telecom network capabilities through Parlay and web services. Contributed to Parlay X standard.

• Software Architect at Hewlett-Packard

  July 2000 - May 2002

  o Designed a wireless portal for Hutchison 3G, with integration of 3rd party applications through web services. o Architecture based on BEA Weblogic for the J2EE and web services environments, and Volantis (XHTML) and Elata (J2ME) for the wireless environment. o Designed and managed the development of a packaged solution for wireless portals based on Broadvision, HP-Bluestone as the J2EE environment, 7*24 as the WAP gateway and Brience for the wireless content transformation. o Designed and managed the development of a packaged solution for E-Commerce web sites based on Broadvision, Verity, Taxware and ClearCommerce. o Managed a team of 4 engineers performing integration and system testing. o Managed relationships with marketing, QA and technical support teams. o Led high-availability and performance testing on the packaged solutions.

• Senior IT Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

  July 1996 - June 2000

  o Managed an ASP selection project to outsource hosting of HP external web sites. o Managed a project to reengineer HP external web farms and guarantee 99.9% uptime of the hosting infrastructure. o Managed a project to design a highly-available architecture for Shopping Village (www.shopping.hp.com) web site. o Technical expert in a project for tracking customer activity across all HP external web sites. o Designed an infrastructure to host HP external web sites and managed its deployment at a European level. Managed the evolution of this infrastructure to a worldwide level and coordinated new release deployments with Americas and Europe delivery organisations. o Designed an infrastructure of web proxies and managed its deployment at a European level. o Provided consulting for business customers on infrastructure architecture for e commerce applications. o Managed a team of 3 system administrators for web infrastructure operations and 2 developers for small web applications development.

• Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

  December 1993 - June 1996

  o Designed and developed an SNMP agent to manage an ATM network card for HP-UX servers. o Designed and developed a driver for an ATM network card. Multi-threaded design in HP-UX kernel with strong performance requirements. o Setup of the first web proxy in HP France.

• VP of Engineering at Spotify

  January 2012

  Infrastructure, core music experience, recommendations, social, monetization

Laurent Paris's Education:

• Ecole Superieure d'Electricite

  1989 – 1992
  Engineer