Engineer · Athlete · Explorer · Paris
David Rigaux.
Technical lead at The Bradery. There was no engineering team when I joined, so I built one, then we rebuilt the platform underneath it. Event-driven AWS, a new app, a new site, the tools the business runs on. Still in the code most days.
Selected work
The old stack had stopped holding at the size the company had reached. Rebuilt it on event-driven AWS with CDK: EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Aurora Serverless v2, Cognito. New backoffice, new app, new site. It went out without downtime, so nobody noticed.
Put a cache layer in front of the hot paths. App-load went from seconds to milliseconds, which let us scale the servers back down. Also wrote a gateway that keeps flash-sale traffic from blowing our third-party rate limits.
There was no engineering team when I arrived. Hired seven people, split them into squads, and set up how we work: CI/CD, review, testing, incidents. I never stopped writing code through any of it.