Théo Carrive

CTO

Paris, Île-de-France, France18 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams across multiple countries.
Built scalable applications for e-business.
Expert in software architecture and project management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-business expert with strong leadership in software development.

Contact

theo.carrive@mistral.ai LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnsibleC++CSPMChefCloudflareComputer ScienceData MiningData ModelingDebianE-businessEngineeringGo LanguageIASTIdentity Management

Experience

Mistral ai

VP Engineering

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France

Leading the AI Studio teams.

Datadog

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Leading the engineering teams building Datadog 🧑‍💻 Code Security and ⛈ Cloud Security products.
Code Security: Software Composition Analysis, SAST, IAST, etc.
Cloud Security: CSPM, Identity Management, Vulnerability Management, Infrastructure as Code.
Managed an org of ~50 engineers, split in 6 teams, located between New-York, Paris, Lisbon, and Madrid.

Software Composition AnalysisSASTIASTCSPMIdentity ManagementVulnerability Management+3

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Building the Cloud Workload Security product (aka Workload Protection): A cyber security tool, allowing real-time eBPF-powered threat detection across your hosts and containers.

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 · 3 mos

Electra

Advisor

Aug 2021 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France

Cheerz

2 roles

CTO / Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Sep 2014 – Aug 2021 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Paris

Built and managed the whole Product + Engineering team (40+ people in 7 teams).
Helped the company grow from 4 to >150 employees in 7 years.
Managed 5 Engineering Managers, PMs, and Product Designers
Software architecture & development
Software best practices (Continuous Delivery, code quality, code review, etc.)
Product management
People management
Recruiting
We have built a scalable and highly flexible suite of applications / services : entire e-business platform, custom products management system, manufacturing management & reporting platform, high throughput photo storage system, sales reporting and customer relationship platform.
Our stack :
Back-End / Infra: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Redis, Ansible, Chef, hybrid infra on GCP + AWS + baremetal, Cloudflare.
Front-End / Mobile: React, ES6/TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin.
Overview of our stack here: https://stackshare.io/cheerz/cheerz
Our engineering blog here: https://medium.com/cheerz-engineering

Software architectureProduct managementPeople managementRecruitingSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr · Paris

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Unicorn, Nginx, Debian.

RubyRuby on RailsMySQLPostgreSQLUnicornNginx+2

Marcel

Back-End Engineer (intern)

Mar 2013 – Jul 2013 · 4 mos · Région de Paris, France

Back in the early days of "VTC" (= ride-hailing apps) in France.
Development of a Ruby software allowing the simulation of the user activity on a road network, in order to test and optimize the main Information System, and analyze the optimization issues.

Ruby