Hi, I'm Charles-Axel Dein!
I'm a software engineer and an engineering manager.
I'm currently an Engineering Manager at a Stealth Startup. I'm based in New York.
Previous work experiences include:
- 1 year as CTO of Octopize, a deep-tech startup which built an anonymization algorithm based on synthetic data generation.
- 1.5 years as VP of Engineering at Gens de Confiance, a classifieds community with unique safety & scam prevention features.
- 2 years of founding a legaltech startup (Skrib), building its back-end (Python and Go), front-end (React, TypeScript) and infra (Terraform, AWS) from scratch. Its main product was leveraging NLP (natural language processing) to analyze contracts and automate follow-up tasks.
- 5 years at Uber in San Francisco and Amsterdam, starting as software engineer, then moving to an engineering manager role.
- 2 years of innovation consulting at faberNovel in Paris and San Francisco.
My areas of interest are:
- Startup entrepreneurship
- Software engineering
- Engineering management
- Design & typography
- Education
- History
- Literature
- Woodworking
- Philosophy
Contact
Feel free to contact me via email (charles@dein.fr)
This page might be outdated. Checkout my LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/charlesaxeldein.
Short biography
Here's a short biography you can use:
Charles-Axel Dein (aka Charlax) is currently an engineering manager at a stealth startup. He is passionate about building high-performance engineering teams that deliver products with a profound impact on the physical world. His previous software development and engineering management experiences include faberNovel (Paris and San Francisco) and Uber (San Francisco and Amsterdam): building products from idea to millions of users, scaling services to hundreds of thousands of request per second, developing teams from scratch. He enjoys spending time with his family, woodworking, developing software, and reading about everything (particularly classical literature, history & philosophy)!
Skills
My areas of expertise are:
- Building high-performance software engineering teams
- Hiring engineers and managers: interviews, sourcing, training
- Achieving quality and speed (testing, code reviews, etc.)
- Managing performance and giving feedback
- Maintaining reliability (incident response, monitoring, etc.)
- Creating a culture of continuous learning & improvement
- Increasing your personal productivity
- Implementing simple project management processes
- Scaling products and technologies
- Full stack development (back-end, front-end)
- Devops & infrastructure
- Security
- UX/UI design
Work experience
Please check my LinkedIn profile for the latest information.
Engineering Manager, Stealth Startup, New York
At the intersection of manufacturing, real estate and food, connecting the digital and physical worlds with software.
CTO, Octopize
- Managed the data science and data engineering team.
- Wrote Python, TypeScript, Rust code
- Created the infra (Terraform and Pulumi) on GCP, Azure, and AWS
VP of Engineering, Gens de Confiance (Jan 2020 - Sept 2021)
- Managing back-end and front-end team
- Contributed to back-end, front-end and infra code
- Stack: PHP, TypeScript, React, Terraform, Python, AWS
Cofounder and CEO, Skrib (Jan 2018 - Dec 2019)
- Front-end: React
- Back-end: Python and Go
- Infrastructure: AWS, terraform, lambda
Engineering Manager, Uber (July 2013 - November 2017)
Managed a couple of engineering teams. Started new products.
Software Engineer, Uber (2012 - 2013)
At Uber ("everyone's private driver"), I worked on our Python and Javascript codebases. Here's a couple libraries I have open sourced (now unmaintained):
- charlatan: a Python library to efficiently manage and install database fixtures
- cassette: store and replay HTTP requests made in your Python app
faberNovel (2010-2012)
faberNovel helps big companies think and act like startups. I took part in strategic consulting missions, as well as designed and implemented new services & products for large companies.
I took part in two of faberNovel's yearly white papers. Both have been featured on TechCrunch and were very well received:
Education
I completed a Masters at Sciences Po Rennes, studying the four Sciences Po domains: Law, Economy, History and Political Sciences. I majored in Economy & Finance. I also completed a one-year curriculum at engineering school École Centrale Paris, majoring in Technology and Management.
I wrote a dissertation titled "Google Chrome: Free Software as a launching platform".