# Mathilde Caron > Principal Software Engineer - Lead on Intuit Intelligence Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mathilde Accomplished software engineer with a proven 11-year track record driving innovation through impactful system designs and collaborative leadership of cross-functional teams on large-scale products. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Principal Software Engineer in the AI, Data & Analytics department of Intuit. ### Software Engineer Architect @ Udemy Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Demonstrated successful architecture leadership for top Udemy product initiatives with a focus on AI features, such as the Udemy learning Assistant chatbot (Udemy AI powered chatbot involving 20+ engineers across 6 teams, 3 product teams), contributing from prototyping, technical designing, key parts implementations, optimizations for scale release, to continuous partnership with all stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to influence and gather alignment from multiple engineering (frontend, backend, machine learning and data science) to product, legal, security and executive teams on many engineering, product and marketing projects Drove architecture evolution at Udemy, championing software north star principles, through architecture reviews sessions, documentation, migrations to microservices, and actively participated and lead engineering all hands, tech talks, mentoring, etc ### Principal Engineer @ Udemy Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead Customer Data Platform team to handle more than 120M users data as source of truth for onsite and external parties services (stack with Spark/Scala). Lead the first CDP use case on Email Service Provider migration to send 10M+ promotional emails/day by partnering with Data Science, Marketing Email and other engineering teams. Reduced email user data and recommendations computations from 8 hours to 1 hour. Continuous adviser and partner with engineering tech leads, data science and directors to enable engineers to build their micro services (rotation program to the platform team), integrate more with our data science team (prototyping and expanding design to all engineers) and our product teams. Lead new remote Communication Team, by designing and building new micro service sending 15M+ transactional emails and push notifications per day (stack with Kafka/Kotlin) ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Udemy Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Technical Leader on Discovery Team growing the team from 3 to 8 engineers. Championed and lead public caching effort at Udemy introducing Varnish and caching framework reducing TTFB of some important pages and APIs by 20% to 100%, making our platform more reachable globally. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Udemy Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Full stack engineer in a 4 people team, responsible for main user and visitor experiences across Udemy platform on the monolith: discovery pages, search, recommendations, pricing and promotions, etc (Python/Django). Part of the angular to react codebase migration leads. Part of experimentation framework team to perform dozens of A/B testing at any point in time on our website, integrating with data science. ### Software Engineer @ Riverbed Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Web Services: Full stack engineer using Django, Rest API services, UI Cloud Engineering: working on cloud deployments with AWS tools (EC2, Cloudformation, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, DNS, Nginx proxies), some automation (Ansible). ### Intern Software Engineer @ Technicolor Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA , USA Data mining on user data, NLP, term extraction, Graphs, label propagation, API ### Intern @ Thales Services Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Elancourt, Paris - develop software to generate useful files for the Netflow tool in the ThalesNet network and create web interface to allow users to generate them directly. - create network models with Cisco components such as routers, switches. - complete a study on diagnosis tools in Network and Security Services . ## Education ### Engineer's degree in Computer Engineering Télécom Paris Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caronmathilde --- Source: https://flows.cv/mathilde JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mathilde/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22