Management Engineer

Arnaud Tellier Phone: 650-***-****

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a

CTO and Entrepreneur tellier

Email: *************@*****.***

Entrepreneurial CTO with strong technical leadership and 10+ years of hands-on experience building reliable and

scalable solutions in global markets such as online advertising, wearable technology and online storage.

• Served as co-founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of several startups and helped them raise funding from VCs

and angels

• Defined both the product and technology strategy of innovative solutions that started new trends in competitive

markets (patents pending)

• Architected the backend infrastructure and led the development of multiple highly available and scalable distributed

online services

• Expertise in distributed search (Elasticsearch), clustered databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL), high availability

systems and software development

Active Mind Technology

Experience

JAN 2012 T O PRESENT

CTO

GAME is a leading big data platform that collects various metrics from sports wearable devices

and smartphones. Players can visualize their games, better their performance, and compete

against friends.

• Lead the vision, architecture and development of the GAME platform, which is used in 104

countries and has attracted top professional golfers and celebrities

• Architected and built our system to be easily scalable and highly available as it processes

hundreds of millions of data points per day

• Provided a reliable experience to our customers, with no unexpected downtimes, by designing a

solution based on fault-tolerant distributed technologies and methodologies: multi-zone clusters,

sharded databases and asynchronous messaging and processing

• Increased backend performance and reliability by guiding Engineering in optimizing services

and queries, setting up server distributions and designing solid backup strategies

• Accelerated the development and integration of our various client applications (for Web, iOS,

Android, Windows and MacOS) by building a central data layer (API) that transparently and

efficiently updates, caches and retrieves data from our multiple datastores

SoulBlendr

JAN 2011 T O OCT 2011

COO / Founder

SoulBlendr is the first click-through IP licensing engine and marketplace that enables artists and

musicians to drive merchandising revenue from brand and product licensing.

• Co-founded and raised $500k from angels, friends and family

• Led the product management and development of our marketplace, architected on top of our

c ustomized CMS solution

• Built a licensing engine that automatically and instantly creates legally binding documents

between artists and manufacturers, saving them expensive legal fees

• Led the integration of our system with Paypal and credit card payment providers

MyBuys

JUN 2010 T O DEC 2010

CTO - Advertising

MyBuys is the leading provider of 1:1 personalized offers and recommendations across e-

commerce sites, email, display ads, mobile devices, social media and in direct mail. MyBuys

manages more than 250 million unique consumer profiles, across more than a billion devices, for

more than 400 major retailers and consumer brands.

MyBuys acquired Veruta in May 2010, and rebranded it MyAds.

• Led the technical integration of Veruta’s platform into MyBuys ecosystem

• Worked on the product strategy with MyBuys executive team to best integrate and leverage

their multi-channel capability and to explore new monetization avenues

• Refined Veruta's real-time bidding (RTB) engine in order to start leveraging MyBuys massive

user profile database across multiple touch points (email, on site, mobile)

Veruta

APR 2008 T O MAY 2010

Founder / CTO

Veruta is a self-service retargeting platform that delivers personalized online advertisements to

consumers. Veruta introduced novel concepts such as product based retargeting, cost per

engagement and view-through clicks (patents pending), and was one of the very first platforms to

use retargeting pixels and real-time bidding.

• Co-founded and helped raise our seed funding of $400k. Veruta quickly reached a monthly

revenue of $200k+ when acquired by MyBuys, within 6 months of public launch

• Managed the product management and development of our solution that retained profit margins

of more than 70% arbitraging ad placements

• Scaled our platform to support the growth of our user base from zero to 90 million profiles in 6

months, while serving personalized advertisements on major sites with no downtime and in less

that 200ms

• Architected and built an ad network infrastructure that returns responses to real-time bidding

requests in less than 20ms

• Led the integration of our platform with all the major real-time bidding providers (Google,

OpenX, Pubmatic, AdMeld, ContextWeb, etc…) and most major ad networks

Wambo

SEP 2005 T O DEC 2007

CTO / Founder

Wambo provides storage in the cloud to end-users. We have developed a fully distributed peer-to-

peer file system (patent pending) and our entire solution includes social features such as users

profiles and sharing, online group chats and an inbox client.

• C o-founded and helped raise funding from VCs as well as served as board member

• Led the product management and development of our solution that includes a peer-to-peer

network, a downloadable client application and a social web portal

• Architected the core engine to be fully distributed and massively scalable over our own peer-to-

peer network

• Designed our proprietary fragmentation, encryption and distribution algorithms and used error

correction to maximize availability with unreliable nodes. Used local caching and swarming

(BitTorrent like) techniques to achieve great performance, even under heavy download

concurrency

Stanford University / Nasa

2001 T O 2 005

Senior Software Engineer

The Biocomputation Center is a joint venture between Stanford and Nasa that focuses on new

technology and their use in the medical field.

Worked on various cutting-edge projects such as a patented wearable vital-sign monitoring

system for astronauts, a 3D virtual surgical solution or the first handheld video chat prototype.

Stanford University

Education

AUG 2 000 T O MAY 2001

Master in Computer Science

Florida Atlantic University

AUG 1996 T O MAY 1998

Master in Ocean Engineering with Thesis

Ecole Centrale Paris

SEP 1994 T O JUN 1996

Master in Engineering

Serving Dynamic Advertisements Based on User

Publications

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Interest of a Product

United States Patent and Trademark Office

System and Method for Monetizing Web Ads

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Based on Engagement

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Distributed File Storage and Transmission

MAY 2, 2007

System

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Entrepreneurship, P roduct Management, P roduct Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Online

S kills

Advertising, Online Storage, C loud Computing, Big Data, Software Development, D istributed

Systems, H igh Scalability, H igh Availability, D istributed Search (Elasticsearch), C lustered

Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL), A mazon Web Services (AWS), C aching (Redis,

Memcached, ElastiCache), Message Queues (RabbitMQ), Load Balanced Web Serving (Nginx,

HAProxy, ELB), Server Provisioning and Deployment (Chef, Github, Teamcity), Logging Systems

and Analytics (Logstash, Kibana), P HP (Yii MVC Framework), Frontend (AngularJS), C ++, Spark

(Experimental)

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