Sébastien Noirot

Senior Software Engineer

Distributed systems · Product engineering · Technical leadership

Trondheim, Norway
noirot.sebastien@gmail.com
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Profile

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building complex digital products and improving how engineering teams deliver them. I combine backend architecture, product thinking and technical leadership to make systems more reliable, teams more effective and delivery more predictable.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Custom Bet

2025

Sportradar · Trondheim

  • Helped evolve a product-specific solution into a more reusable platform, making new sports and use cases faster to support.
  • Simplified core data flows, reducing unnecessary system complexity and improving runtime efficiency.
  • Improved visibility into product usage and production behaviour, giving teams clearer feedback on quality and adoption.

Engineering Manager · Strikers

2024–2025

Sportradar · Trondheim

  • Led delivery of new product capabilities across several team phases while maintaining a stable release cadence.
  • Managed the transition from consultants to permanent employees without losing delivery continuity or team knowledge.
  • Raised engineering ownership by improving service visibility, documentation and quality safeguards.

Senior Software Engineer · Product & Platform Teams

2018–2024

Sportradar · Trondheim

  • Built and operated services supporting high-volume, business-critical sports products.
  • Created internal tools that reduced manual investigation and made production issues easier to understand and resolve.
  • Improved delivery confidence through stronger testing, observability and automation practices.

Senior Developer · Scrum Master · Release Manager

2016–2018

OpenAirlines · Toulouse

  • Contributed to a product helping airlines reduce fuel consumption and operating costs.
  • Combined software delivery with team facilitation and release ownership in a ten-person R&D team.

Core capabilities

Architecture & backend

Distributed systems, Java, Quarkus, Spring, REST, gRPC

Messaging & data

Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Neo4j

Reliability & delivery

Observability, Contract testing, Synthetic monitoring, Kubernetes, GitLab CI

Leadership

Technical direction, Engineering management, Mentoring, Stakeholder alignment, Security champion

Sébastien NoirotRésumé · 2 / 2

Earlier experience

Software Engineer

2015–2016

Ausy · Toulouse

  • Built software used to manage telecommunications infrastructure remotely.
  • Improved the team's delivery process by introducing stronger testing, automation and knowledge sharing.

Team Leader · Java Developer

2012–2015

Capgemini · Toulouse

  • Led a five-person team responsible for business-critical customer transaction applications.
  • Progressed from developer to team leader, taking ownership of technical direction, delivery and team coordination.

Selected strengths

Product engineering

Translate complex domains into software that remains understandable and adaptable.

Engineering effectiveness

Improve feedback loops, tooling and operational visibility so teams deliver with confidence.

Technical leadership

Provide direction, coach engineers and keep technical and product stakeholders aligned.

Education

Engineering degree / MSc.

Computer Science · INSA Toulouse · 2004–2012

Exchange year

Computer Science · Erasmus exchange · NTNU · 2009–2010

Languages

FrenchNative

EnglishProfessional proficiency

NorwegianBasic

How I work

Reduce complexity

Technology should remove complexity, not create it.

Product before frameworks

Good engineering starts with understanding the problem.

Systems over heroes

Strong environments make good outcomes repeatable.

Own the outcome

Software is not finished when it ships.

Additional

Security Champion · Mentoring · Internal tooling · Engineering communities · Technical writing