André Reinald

Senior operator in transformation and structuring
Southern France (Toulon / Hyères area) & Paris
+33 6 52 45 25 54 ·
reinald.fr/andre/cv

Over 25 years of experience spanning software development, architecture, product leadership and the design of infrastructure under strong constraints.

Most effective in phases of creation, restructuring and clarification.

Committed to civic engagement, particularly on digital and democratic issues.

Prefers human-scale organisations, cross-cutting problems, and contexts where the “why” matters as much as the “how”.

Available remotely, with occasional travel.

Current engagements

Since 2015

PeerStorage — President / initiator

Design and promotion of a server-less Internet model for a decentralised collaborative cloud. Raising awareness around net neutrality, protection from mass surveillance, and moving beyond digital silos. A conceptual and advocacy contribution rather than a large-scale technical implementation.

Since 2017

Association for Volunteering in Europe

Participation in the work of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe (Digital Citizenship working group). Providing expertise on the societal transformations driven by digital technology and formulating recommendations for political institutions.

2021

Civic engagement

Lead candidate on the departmental list in the regional elections, running on a citizens’ platform advocating direct democracy.

Professional experience

2018 – 2020

Craft (Caisses Régionales Agricoles FinTech) — CTO

Joined at the creation of the company. Designed and built the full IT infrastructure for the data-science team in a highly constrained environment (group private cloud, internet access through proxy, multi-level authentication).

Introduced Docker Swarm and associated best practices (isolation, least privilege, centralised logging and monitoring). Delivered pipelines, resilience measures (business continuity) and compliance with GDPR and banking requirements.

2013 – 2018

Mozilla Corporation — Senior Software Engineer

Contributed to Firefox development (Mac-specific components, Mach-O support in Courgette, test automation).

In parallel, played a major role in the visibility and public presence of Mozilla France: organising events and public debates (notably around the Intelligence Act) and contributing significantly to the organisation’s media coverage in France.

2006 – 2012

Intego — Senior Product Manager

End-to-end creation of a new security product: market study, feature definition, planning and delivery (architecture, development, user interface, marketing and documentation).

Managed a team of three on the porting and evolution of VirusBarrier for Linux. Developed a neural-network-based artificial-intelligence module.

Earlier

Summary

Skills

Structuring & architecture Building infrastructure under constraints, resilience, business continuity, DevOps / DataDevOps practices, isolation and least privilege.
Product & design End-to-end product creation (from market study to delivery), UX, design, planning.
Infrastructure & systems Linux, Mac, Docker / Swarm, self-hosting, resilience, monitoring, low-power environments (ARM, single-board computers).
Clarification & transmission Ability to ask the right questions, connect domains, pass on knowledge and surface original solutions.
Languages & tools C++, Python, Bash, Objective-C, JavaScript, Git / GitLab… learned and applied as needed.

Education

Languages

Miscellaneous

Based mainly on a sailing boat in the Toulon / Hyères area (with easy access to Nice and Marseille airports) and in Paris.
Cycling is my daily means of transport: the bicycle travels on board and is used as soon as I dock.
Preference for sober, resilient and autonomous approaches (personal infrastructure, embedded electronics, home automation) — a form of joyful sobriety.