Nicolas Laurent

Engineering Manager · Gen AI · [email protected]

About

Engineering manager with a background in full-stack development, currently focused on Gen AI product development and leading high-performance engineering teams. Comfortable navigating ambiguity, shipping iteratively, and building cultures where engineers thrive.

Experience

Engineering Manager
Company A
2022 — present

Led a team of 8 engineers building Gen AI features for the company's core product. Introduced structured incident reviews, reduced on-call burden by 40 %, and shipped the team's highest-NPS release to date.

Senior Software Engineer
Company B
2019 — 2022

Full-stack development on a SaaS platform serving 200 k+ users. Designed the event-sourcing architecture that replaced a legacy monolith and mentored three junior engineers to mid-level.

Software Engineer
Company C
2016 — 2019

Built internal tooling and data pipelines. First engineer focused entirely on developer experience; established CI/CD practices adopted across three product teams.

Skills

Gen AI

  • LLM product design
  • Prompt engineering
  • RAG architectures
  • Evaluation frameworks

Engineering Leadership

  • Team building
  • Roadmap planning
  • Incident management
  • 1:1s & coaching

Technical

  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • System design

Tools

  • AWS / GCP
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linear / Notion

Education

  • MSc Computer Science
    École Centrale de Lyon
    2013 — 2016

Languages

  • French Native
  • English Fluent