Maxime Lavandier

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Head of platform at Squarepoint Capital

London, England, United Kingdom

Overview

Maxime Lavandier serves as the Head of Platform at Squarepoint Capital, where he leverages his extensive experience in security, high-availability systems, and automation. An Epitech graduate, his expertise is centered around Kubernetes, Python, and NodeJS. Colleagues have described him as a "skilled engineer" and "technically talented".


His university project, TBCconnect, won the prestigious "Epitech experience" award in 2016, placing first out of 104 competing projects.

Personality Overview

Curious

Example Seeker

Assertive

They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation.  They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Topics They Care About

Infrastructure at Scale
His career at Squarepoint Capital, Scaleway, and Witick demonstrates a consistent focus on building and leading teams for HA infrastructure using Kubernetes and automation.
Cloud Platform Engineering
As a former Product Owner and Lead DevOps at cloud provider Scaleway, he was responsible for core platform services like IAM, authentication, and security.
DevOps & Automation
He has a deep background in automating deployment, scaling, and monitoring using a range of tools including Jenkins, gitlab-ci, Ansible, and Salt.

Media Appearances

Maxime has no verified media appearances

Work History

5-2024
Head of platform at Squarepoint Capital
3-2023 - 5-2024
Lead SRE at Squarepoint Capital
9-2021 - 2-2023
Lead Devops services at Squarepoint Capital
2-2018 - 1-2020
Product Owner / Lead DevOps Engineer at Scaleway
8-2015 - 2-2018
DevOps Engineer at Witick

Education

2012 - 2017
Master in Computer Ingeneering from EPITECH - European Institute of Technology
2015 - 2016
Computer Science from California State University, Long Beach

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Insights For Selling To Maxime

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Share testimonials from known people and give multiple examples of product value
  • Help them understand the risk aspect fully while inspiring confidence
  • Use phrases like ‘clear proof that’, ‘data shows’ etc.

DONT's

  • Don’t be too objective but make sure to pad your storytelling with data points
  • Don’t try to rush them into a decision, provide all necessary information first
  • Don’t rely excessively on your relationship with them to win the deal

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Maxime is

  • Clear proof of product value matters to them, followed by others' testimonials and rapport.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Maxime

  • They are practical and friendly, don't expect a clear-cut response often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Maxime move?

  • They like to perform full analysis and can take time to make any decision.
  • Can Maxime take some risk or not?

  • They systematically evaluate all decisions and are unlikely to take many risks.

You And Maxime

Personality Compatibility


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