👨💼 Project Leader
🏦 Payments, Finance, IT
📍 France, Switzerland
🔮 ENFP
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>>> Experience
# Built payment solutions & analytics tools at Amadeus /// Nice, France
Engineered a credit & debit cards issuing platform to provide travel agences and businesses with a better way to pay for travel services, and increase payments acceptance, flexibility and transparency. Contributed to building a new credit card issuing business - out in 2024.
Built an analytics platform that allows businesses to increase their payments acceptance and track payment trends; and Amadeus salespeople to find new perspective customers for its payment solutions.
Led a team of 8 to 16 people through Agile (Scrum, SAFe).
[Amadeus is the leading technology solutions & services provider for airlines, hotels, and other businesses in the travel industry]
# Ensured smooth trading operations at BNP Paribas CIB /// London, UK
Ensured smooth government bonds, futures & derivatives trading activity, on normal days and during important financial events. Investigated and solved critical issues to limit losses of up to thousands of dollars per second.
Analysed data and coded workflows to make critical & urgent problems investigation 10% faster.
[BNP Paribas is the 7th largest bank in the world]
# Software engineering internship at Revevol /// Paris, France
Studied new technologies (mostly linked to AI, data visualisation and Google Cloud) and created proof-of-concept products for the company to meet new demands and expand its range of provided services.
[Revevol helps French biggest companies and startups move to the cloud]
>>> Education
# Master of Science at Mines de Nancy in 2018 /// Nancy, France
Mines Nancy is one of the best “Grandes Ecoles” in France, delivering highly skilled multi-faceted scientists, engineers and business leaders.
Theoretical Maths | Theoretical & applied Physics | Computer Science | AI & Data Science | Macro & Micro Economics | Business Management | Market Finance
>>> Cool stuff
🪂 Skydiving: 60 jumps & counting
🗻 Climbed Mt. Elbrus (highest peak in Europe, 5642m)
🎬 First assistant to costume designer on a short film, 2022, Cannes
🛋️ Co-designed interiors for 2 flats and 3 design contests
💡 Created a startup club in my university, Genius movement
⛺️ Learned survival in Russian taiga in scouts-like summer camps
🗣️ Fluent in 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇷🇺 , learning 🇩🇪 🇨🇳
👨💻 Python is my go-to programming language
🔮 MBTI personality: ENFP
>>> Skills
>>> Skills
# Product skills
- Acting as a bridge between the business unit and the development team. Mediating common understanding of project expectations, goals, solutions and deadlines.
- Leading a Scrum team of 8-16 people using Jira and SAFe practices.
- Requirements analysis for new projects & features.
- Writing functional & technical specifications.
- Business Intelligence: creating insights from financial data on customers’ & competitors’ behaviour.
- Root cause analysis: finding the root cause of applications-related issues, then solutions to fix them.
- Application support to traders: solving application & tech issues traders encountered in real time.
- UI & UX: creating beautiful & easy-readable presentations, UI design.
# Soft skills
- Bilingual & bi-cultural: French-Russian. Two very different languages & cultures practised since a young age endorse the ability to view any topic from various perspectives.
- English: C1-C2 level - German & Chinese: A2 level
- Presentation & public speaking: always taking the initiative to present projects, ideas, results, etc. to the audience, management or jurys
- Working with demanding clients in a stressful environment
# Tech skills
- Programming: Python, Java, JavaScript, scripting languages
- Data Visualisation: PowerBI, Qlik, Google DataStudio, Dash & Plotly, Splunk
- Finance software: Bloomberg Terminal, ION Trading, TradingView (all novice)
- OS: MacOS, Linux (Ubuntu & flavours), Windows
- also: Jira, Git, Office, ...
>>> Certificates
Agile: SAFe 5.0 practitioner
English: IELTS, TOEFL
Chinese: HSK level 3
Skydiving: B licence
First Aid: French SST certificate
Let's get in touch:
💬 email / iMessage / FaceTime me at me@leolazou.com
🗓️ schedule a 30 min call
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