Tech-savvy and results-driven software engineer with 20+ years of experience in software development, project management, and executive leadership. Proven track record in designing and implementing scalable and high-performance application stacks, from mobile to web platforms, and architecting data warehouses with advanced analytics capabilities. Demonstrated success in leading large-scale integration projects, enhancing application performance, and maintaining technical debt for long-term maintainability.More...
Nicolas Genest
Chief Technology Officer@GoodwillFinds
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Nicolas Genest has been part of many highly successful executive teams both as Chief Executive Officer and as Chief Technology Officer. He was named among the Top 10 CEOs to watch in 2020 by Insights Success Magazine as the CEO of CodeBoxx Technology.
Currently CTO of GoodwillFinds based in Tampa, Florida.
As CTO of Modcloth, he orchestrated the rebirth of the brand alongside Matt Kaness and a renewed executive team in 2016. The replatformed retailor was acquired by Jet.com/Walmart.
As First CTO of The RealReal in San Francisco from 2013 to 2016, he turned around their entire technology platform and re-ignited growth by transitioning them out of an outsourced technology model.
As early CTO of the European leader vente-privee.com (now Veepee) in Paris, the highly profitable pioneer of Flash Sales grew revenue from 170M to 1.2B Euros from 2007 to 2012 under his tenure. He went on to launch their USA joint venture with American Express in New York in 2011 with CEO Mike Steib.
Previously, Nicolas was at Microsoft as a Business Intelligence and Platform Engineer where he worked on their Database and .Net products. He also served at Pfizer leading a team of developers of critical web-based applications.
- 20 years of experience managing technology in all kinds of industries, contexts and cultures in the United States, France and Canada.
- Successful in small and huge projects, within small constrained structures or heavy complex organizations. Experienced in local,off-shore,near-shore and split-team projects.
- Strong track record at building and empowering extraordinary teams leading them to delivering long lasting value within a powerful culture
- Successful in managing annual IT budgets ranging from $1MM to $25MM and in managing teams of 15 or 180 collaborators.
- Engineering for Major-league E-Commerce (Heavy traffic, high-availability, Security) with solutions generating yearly revenue over 1B$ and handling 2.5 million unique daily visitors.
- End to End Business Intelligence Solutions, Advanced Decision-maMore...