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Alex Ayache

CTO @ Cobble | Product Builder | 2x Founder | Techstars Alum & Mentor

Paris, France (+01:00 UTC) English, Frenchfrom Paris, France
Usually responds in 19 hours
Free
Price per hour
30 min
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4.99
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Bio

Hello there, I'm Alex πŸ‘‹ I've spent the last 10+ years building and growing tech companies, with currently a strong focus on B2B SaaS products. My areas of expertise include: πŸ‘‰ How to get a product off the ground and to product-market fit Having built and grown several products from scratch to tens of thousands of active users, I am well versed in the technologies, strategies and challenges of getting to product-market fit πŸ‘‰ What technologies to choose, when & why I've spent most of the last 9 years acting as a CTO, so I have a good knowledge and understanding of the technologies available to meet the challenges of growth: how to scale with increased demand, how to connect product and marketing, how to create powerful data pipelines, etc.. πŸ‘‰ Data-driven processes to propel a product towards success There's no silver bullet here - but there are good (& bad) processes. I've had the opportunity to test quite a few of these over the years, and some are simply better πŸ‘ A few things I've done: 🎯 Built my first company from scratch to 20K+ active users leveraging mostly scrappy tactics (we had no money πŸ₯Ί) 🎯 Eventually raised $1.5M 🎯 Got into the Techstars accelerator along the way 🎯 Built Cobble's product from scratch to currently 55K+ active users and raised $3.5M 🎯 Got into the Google accelerator that time around 🎯 Also worked with 10+ early stage startups to get them started and growing Aside from that, I'm a Frenchman that's lived in the US and Australia, travelled to 50+ countries and currently calls Paris home. If you think I could be the right person to chat to about your growth and product, feel free to reach out πŸ‘·β€β™‚οΈ

Expertise

  • Building a team

    Specifically regarding building an engineering & product team - identifying the required skillsets and the right methodologies, interviewing candidates and on-boarding new hires. And also how to part ways when needed.

  • Data science

    How to build data pipelines connecting all aspects of a product to long-term warehousing & visualization tools, how to harness that data to power machine-learning projects, business decisions and operational processes.

  • Product analytics

    How to enable & leverage data to understand how a product is doing, avoiding the common pitfalls of product analytics and how to use all that to build a product strategy.

  • Remote work

    I've built and been part of several fully-remote companies, with team members based all across the globe, and have been location independent for the last 4+ years - which has been a great opportunity to test & adopt various processes and tools to make that dynamic work as efficiently as possible.

  • Technology and tools

    What technologies, tools & stacks are available based on company goals, what are their respective strengths and weaknesses, and how to decided which one to use and why

Toolkit

  • Amplitude logo

    Amplitude

    Experience using Amplitude for everything product analytics, enabling teams to understand what is going on with their apps and business and help decide on the next goals.

  • Google Analytics logo

    Google Analytics

    Experience using Google Analytics for everything website / web-app tracking, enabling teams to know what is going on with their sites and what to do next

  • JavaScript logo

    JavaScript

    Experience using Javascript to build and scale several products from scratch, leveraging frameworks such as React for front-end projects & Node for back-end ones

  • Mixpanel logo

    Mixpanel

    Experience using Mixpanel for everything product analytics, enabling teams to understand what is going on with their apps and business and help decide on the next goals.

  • Notion logo

    Notion

    Experience using Notion as a centralized hub for fully-remote teams, including project management, company wiki-lite & resource center, bug tracking, and much more.

  • Python logo

    Python

    Experience using Python to build and scale several products from scratch, leveraging frameworks such as Django & Flask, as well as scrapping scripts, data analytics tools, and much more.

  • Segment logo

    Segment

    Experience using Segment to build complex data pipeline in a very streamlined and simplified way, enabling data collection and routing from all ends of product to various systems such as MoEngage, Customer.io, data warehousing, Google Analytics, and much, much more.

  • Stripe logo

    Stripe

    Experience using Stripe to build and scale payments in my first company, handling tens of thousands of transactions, enabling compliance & reporting and keeping things simple and secure.

Experience

  • Wheeli

    Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

    As product and engineering lead, was responsible for the development and maintenance of Wheeli's web and mobile apps. Ensured efficiency and cost optimization (servers, third party services, technology stack). Created a community from 0 to tens of thousands of users which became the #1 carpooling app for college students in the USA. ● Handled product from ideation and feature design all the way to implementation and release, making sure our apps deliver the expected values to the end user ● Built fully responsive website from MVP to full-fledged version (backend: Python/Django; frontend: CSS3/HTML5, JavaScript) ● Build and maintained Wheeli’s native iOS & Android apps (Swift, Java) ● Built an instantaneous messaging feature similar to Facebook Messenger providing an in-app communication channel for thousands of users (Redis, Node.js server) ● Built dashboards allowing internal tracking of key metrics (dc.js, d3.js) ● Responsible for the administration and maintenance of our AWS Infrastructure, setting up and maintaining the cloud services required to support our applications (EC2 Containers, S3, Redis and Node.JS servers)

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