Etienne has been working as a developer, architect, project manager, and CTO for the past 15 years. He has spent most of his time building software products from the ground up and successfully shipping them to happy customers. He was privileged to work in different domains like linguistics, banking, insurance, logistics, and process management. In his role as SVP of Engineering, Etienne is currently leading the development efforts of Develocity and of Buildship, Eclipse Plug-ins for Gradle.