Meet Etienne, Techlead backend
Opensee
Paris
After a first experience in the defence sector, Etienne joined the world of advertising, where he got a taste for Scala programming and the world of start-ups. Three years later, he decided to quench his thirst for knowledge by diving into the world of finance. This is how he joined Opensee in 2017. Initially a developer, he seized the opportunity to become a Backend Techlead. Today, he thrives in this role halfway between technical and product.
After graduating in computer engineering, this water sports and football enthusiast joined CentraleSupélec to specialise in project management. His first experience was in a consulting firm at BNP Paribas. Since 2019, Hoël has been supporting Opensee customers as a product manager. His motto: to act as a link between customers and development teams to translate their functional needs into product features.
Quantitative Analyst yesterday, turned Customer Success today, Lauriane is one of the many talents at Opensee who possesses a sharp understanding of the product and business needs, which are key to developing necessary solutions. With a masters degree in Probability and Finance, it is thanks to her appetite of human resources and her curiosity that this badminton enthusiast made a winning backhand by switching from the conception of mathematical models to client relations and interactions.
A philosopher at heart, one can say that Shahin likes to understand and discover. After a 4-year thesis on the semantics of functional programming languages with effects, he immersed himself in the use of functional languages in backend development, notably Scala (with the Typelevel ecosystem), Haskell and Elixir. Today, this lover of photos, calligraphy and Mario Kart, accompanies the Opensee teams to find solutions and distributed data processing architectures that will give finance its letters of nobility!
US, Switzerland, Luxembourg… Edouard then decided to settle in the UK for 15 years, working for JPMorgan where he combined his legal and financial background with his keen interest for data, in various functions: Market Risk, valuation, market data contract negotiations, and most recently as Business Manager for the CIB AI & ML department. He moved back to France in late 2020 before joining Opensee to develop the pre-sales function.
Diplômé en Ingénierie Informatique, Mina a rejoint l’équipe DevOps d’Opensee d’abord en tant que stagiaire, aidant au déploiement de leurs solutions sur les divers environnements de leurs clients. En s’appuyant sur son autonomie et ses compétences techniques, ce passionné d’informatique a pu compter sur l’aide de son équipe pour enrichir son savoir et ainsi poursuivre son aventure au sein d’Opensee. Si les fournisseurs de Cloud et leur fonctionnement n’ont plus de secret pour lui, c’est également du côté des langages de code Golang et Python qu’il approfondit ses connaissances, aiguisant son analyse des problèmes et sa recherche de solutions. Parce qu’avec beaucoup de passion, l’impossible devient possible !
Even though Gaëlle has daily triathlete activities, they do not only take place during practice! Opensee is the second start-up she has been a part of, where she was tasked with the creation and development of the Human Resources department. She took this opportunity to tackle new challenges, this time in the financial sector for an international company. Her previous experiences within larger institutions, such as Roland Berger and Fifty-Five, have enabled her to acquire important and necessary skills, which help her have an exhaustive view of challenges a company encounters during its life cycle. From redesigning existing processes to the implementation of new ideas, she flourishes in the versatility of her missions, developing the human resources department in the step of Opensee’s growth rate.
Londres
Having combined a literary background with a business school diploma, there was no reason to expect that this French art and gastronomy enthusiast exiled in London would join a fintech specialised in risk management. Elena's path crossed that of Opensee when she was looking for new challenges to leverage her past experiences in operational and strategic marketing in a new and exciting sector. Opensee - formerly ICA - was about to rebrand and consolidate its marketing and communication strategy and called on Elena to handle it. Opensee could benefit from Elena's creativity to start this new phase of development with a renewed image, reflecting its dynamism and this new momentum built with its clients.
Presentation
In 2018, Opensee decided to tackle one of the hardest challenges of financial institutions : make simple, interactive and quick data-driven decisions leveraging their massive amounts of data and financial industry expertise. To deliver a no-compromise solution enabling to exploit huge volumes with speed and high performance at a lower cost than existing benchmarks, Opensee chose to break the status quo: Tear down down silos and challenge existing development processes Co-build a strong partnership with their clients to find together the smartest and most efficient solution. Today this fast-growing international Fintech offers a high performance solution to the major financial institutions in Paris, London and New-York, helping them overcome new risk management challenges by handling and exploiting their massive datasets.
What they are looking for
Opensee is looking for new talents with an innovative and problem-solving mindset : women and men, who see challenges as learning opportunities and want to explore and impact the financial industry, capital markets, new technologies and big data challenges.
The secret to integrate this team of senior practitioners, from both technical and financial fields, is to share your knowledge and bring your own experience. But also be a team player, proactive and with a tireless positive attitude in this very demanding and stimulating sector.
Good to know
- All Opensee teams are currently working remotely due to this particular context.
- In 2020 Opensee had its first Christmas lunch on Zoom to celebrate its amazing year! Opensee teams would have preferred to see each other, but security first. So a gourmet meal delivered and “Among us” game on the menu to enjoy this day together!
- Thanks to its efforts, Opensee has been selected to be part of the open-innovation lab of Société Générale and successfully leveraged on this program to build a fruitful collaboration.
- Opensee has been awarded in 2017 at the "Concours d'innovation numérique" in the Fintech category, sponsored by the French State to support the best innovative projects in digital transformation.
- In 2018, Opensee has also been chosen by BPIFrance to be 1 of the 6 start-ups to represent France at the International SME Forum on Artificial Intelligence in Montreal.