Alexandre D.

• Built from scratch the CI/CD and autotest infrastructure for Sony PlayStation emulators, used in the Classics Catalog (PlayStation Plus) on PS4 and PS5.

• Automated testing of 5,000+ retro games on various console devkits and OS environments, running continuously via scheduled jobs and commit-based triggers, using Python, GitHub Actions, AWS, and Google/Slack/Linear APIs.

• Ensured quality and non-regression testing for 50+ PlayStation Classics, some played by up to 1M players on PS4/PS5, including Resident Evil, Tomb Raider Legend, Tekken 2 and Legend of Dragoon.

• Principal maintainer and developer of CI/CD pipelines used by 15+ engineers; led internal QA processes and provided consulting for Sony's QA team of 60+ Sony manual testers.

• Through Implicit Conversions Inc., contributed to porting and publishing retro titles on PlayStation, Switch, and PC - including Micro Mages and Fear Effect.

• Part of the cofounding team of a SaaS cloud gaming platform (ex-Piepacker) incubated by YCombinator; scaled the product to 2M users and 500K MAU, grew the company to 60+ employees and raised a $12M Series A.

• Core contributor to the platform architecture and feature implementation using Go, TypeScript, and React across backend, frontend, and cloud systems (Firebase, GCP).

• Created and led the product and QA teams; managed recruitment of the first 30 hires and shaped the com pany culture, overseeing agile practices and cross-team coordination.

• Elaborated and maintained the product roadmap; led specs and delivery for major features such as Dis cord/Twitch integration, browser-based Twitch streaming, and a game upload and catalog system.

• Led a team of 6 developers on AI, IoT, and predictive maintenance projects, designing custom ESP32-based sensors and building dashboards following open data standards, with Microsoft Azure.

• Developed Java backend for a secure geolocation tool used by the French Army; also built a Grafana dash board to visualize code quality for a team of 50+ engineers.