Marc-Daniel Ortega
Executive Director
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Executive Director driven by the five imperatives to follow to continuously generate business value : vision, target &
commitment, transparency, attractive products and performance.
This philosophy entails to continuously support & challenge people in all areas from strategy & tactical exercises to careers'
growth and recruitment, in order to built autonomous and performing domains.
SKILLS
Strategic Planning · OKR driven management · Communication · Collaborative Problem Solving · Technical Recruiting · Coaching
· Mentoring · Manager of Managers · Communication to customers · Change management
EXPERIENCE
Audax Virtus
April 2024 -
Co-founder
We are an IT and engineering services company offering comprehensive support from engineering team delivery to online and
onsite training, coaching, and mentoring. Our goal is to empower businesses with tailored solutions that enhance team
performance and drive innovation.
Shipmonk
april 2024 - October 2024
Director Of Engineering (6 months contract)
ShipMonk is a fulfillment and logistics company that helps e-commerce businesses manage inventory, packing, and shipping
through an integrated software platform.
Transformation of 3 operational teams (25 engineers) into actual platform teams enabling stream align teams in domains
such as SaaS infrastructure, data platform, Data Science and compliance.
Full rebuild of Data teams in order to setup for operational excellency
Save 1.5 FTE hours monthly (engineering population: 70) by fixing CI/CD environments operational efficiency
Setup Observability layer as an SLO based alerting system to enable both Operations and engineering (18 FCs and 6 domain
teams) and prepare peak season
Migration of FCs on premise operational services to the Cloud
Unroll 30% domain teams into the adoption of Data Platform as a self service
Newstore GmbH
February 2022 - April 2024
Director of Engineering (platform teams)
NewStore supports retail brands which want to accelerate their digital transformation by adopting a disruptive omni-channel
platform all delivered as-a-service.
Transformation of 5 operational teams (30 engineers) into actual platform teams enabling stream align teams in domains
such as SaaS infrastructure, data platform, mobile platform, web platform and compliance.
Reduction of running infrastructure costs by 30% and reduction by 70% of the cost of passing transactions for retailers on our
SaaS platform.
Acceleration of SI partner integration from months to weeks, through the the delivery of our next generation MACH friendly
platform in 1 quarter.
Introduction of additional revenue stream with tax certification (projected ~50k yearly)
Successful expansion of our SaaS solution to 10+ challenging countries constrained to drastic local fiscal regulations
(hardware regulations)
Improvement of the quality of our mobile Customer App Platform
Integration and delivery of our new Omni channel Data Insights platform
SOC-2 compliance yearly renewal
HelloFresh DE
November 2020 - February 2022
Director of Engineering
Hellofresh delivers fresh, never frozen meals directly to their customers doorstep. The fully-prepared-meals arrive ready to heat
and eat in minutes.
Facilitate multi million dollar decision taking after transformation the operational Data teams (3 squads, 17 people) into Data
platform teams supporting both customer facing teams (Data producers), and BI teams (Data Consumers)
Accelerate the delivery of a PII compliant Data mesh ecosystem
Lift developer experience by providing non data savvy populations with ready to go data products like query engines, pipeline
orchestrators, etc.
Rationalisation of Data developer experience through the implementation of the 4 DORA metrics in the Data ecosystem using
SLO based alerting
All (Non-data) stream align teams publish properly curated and trusted data in our Data mesh ecosystem
Frontier Car Group (OLX)
January 2020 - July 2020
Director of Engineering
Frontier Car Group is a Berlin-based startup who develop, launch, and operate used-automotive marketplaces within emerging
market economies
Improve DORA metrics as a result of restoring a proper agile process within the cross functional teams of the biding and car
inspection domain (3 teams, 26 people)
Restore daily delivery cadence for bidding and car dealer domains
Accelerate the integration of local teams in the post merger phase with OLX group
Hudson's Bay Company
November 2018 - January 2020
Engineering manager
HBC is a holding company of investments and businesses that operate at the intersection of technology, retail operations and
real estate
Create the new Cart domain for the HBC retail platform
Create and grow a new black belt team of functional engineers to accelerate the delivery of new domains within the HBC
platform ( <3 months to release entire new domain)
Support the implementation and the successful delivery in less than 9 months of the middleware enabling the integration of
SalesForce with the legacy platform ( 5 teams, 15 people)
Amazon
May 2018 - October 2018
Tech Lead
Maintenance and evolution of the global StreamQuery monitoring infrastructure for AWS fleets
De Persgroep Nederland
June 2016 - May 2018
Engineering Manager
Autotrack provides assistance for buying and selling of cars to private individuals and car companies.
Build and grow the cross functional team of engineers maintaining the Autotrack platform (2 teams, 12 engineers)
Remove dependency to 3rd party expensive consultancy
Increase website SLA from 95% to 99.5%
Successfully deliver the version 3.0 of the platform without online incidents
Guarantee continuous feature delivery with an LTTC < 1 day, and DF > 12 deployments per day
Increase the number of returning customer by 20% contributing to the company growth
Irdeto, Eligotech, BouyguesTel, Infovista, Thales, BNP
April 2007 - May 2016
Senior Engineer/Lead - Self Employed
Coordialis
January 2006 - June 2007
CTO
Co-creation and development of the Coordialis startup . Coordialis provided an online service accelerating the delivery of AFNOR
normalised addresses and phone numbers in native desktop applications.
Obbisoft, Credit Lyonnais, FuturMaster, TGID
November 1998 - October 2005
Software Engineer
EDUCATION
INSA Toulouse
1993 to 1996
PhD in applied Physics
INSA Toulouse
Engineer in Physics
LANGUAGES
1988 to 1993
fra (Native), en (Fluent), spa (proficient)
CERTIFICATIONS
SCM BASICS
2002
APICS
Certified Scrum Master
2011
Scrum Alliance
ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation Level
International Software Quality Institute
2016
