Ludovic D.

Helping teams build more secure code faster!

France

About

Energizing Developer Productivity & Happiness in IT Organizations! Are you ready to supercharge your team's performance and elevate their happiness? That's where I come in! My passion lies in igniting developer productivity and joy within large IT organizations. With a dynamic blend of cutting-edge tools including dev portals, Spring framework, modern data services, and cloud-native technologies on top of K8s runtime across multi-cloud environments, I'm on a mission to revolutionize how teams work and thrive. Revolutionizing Cloud-Native Transformation & Culture Shifts! Picture this: Your organization seamlessly transitioning to a cloud-native ecosystem while embracing a culture of innovation and agility. That's the journey I facilitate! By spearheading app modernization initiatives and orchestrating infrastructure upgrades to modern K8s platforms, I'm not just changing systems — I'm transforming mindsets and methodologies of software development and lifecycle management. Customer Success Champion & Lean Governance Expert! As a Customer Success Manager, I'm not just here to deliver results — I'm here to ensure your success story unfolds flawlessly! Through the power of lean governance strategies, OKRs, and meticulous success planning, I craft tailor-made solutions that prioritize Developer Experience and DevSecOps, guaranteeing your organization stays ahead of the curve with real outcomes. Driving Cloud-Native Innovation as a Senior Product Manager! In my previous role as a Senior Product Manager in Cloud Native Apps, I lived and breathed innovation. From coaching and mentoring a cohort of over 15 PMs in lean product management practices to spearheading game-changing initiatives like App Modernization, I've been at the forefront of enabling global enterprises to thrive in the digital age. Empowering Teams with a Versatile Toolkit! User-centered design? Check. Lean product management? Absolutely. Event Storming? You bet. With a robust toolkit spanning Event-driven architecture, Microservices, Domain Driven Design, OGSM, Growth Board, and OKRs, I'm armed and ready to tackle any challenge that comes my way. Ready to embark on a journey of transformation and innovation? Let's connect and make magic happen!

Experience

  • Senior Customer Success Manager at GitLab
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Customer Success Manager at GitLab, I partner with France and Europe's largest enterprises — across defense, automotive, retail, financial services, and critical infrastructure — to drive measurable value from the DevSecOps platform. My portfolio includes strategic accounts where I focus on accelerating adoption of application security, AI-assisted development (GitLab Duo), SLDC powered by Duo Agent Platform, and engineering workflow transformation. Key recent achievements include securing customer as a keynote speaker at GitLab Epic 2025 Paris, leading a secrets scanning initiative protecting 20000+ repositories. I'm passionate about translating complex platform capabilities into business outcomes through executive engagement, data-driven success planning, and cross-functional collaboration. Currently focused on scaling customer success practices across the EMEA region.

  • Strategic Customer Success Manager at VMware Tanzu
    Jun 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    I am helping CIO and CTO on the modernization journey of their cloud infrastructure, their applications and their dev practices in SEMEA for high ARR customers (multi-millions $ deal). My focus is to deliver outcomes for customer on their developer experience and DevSecOps with our core products: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Tanzu Application Platform (supply chain), Tanzu Data and Tanzu Labs. Core Missions : - Build a strategic focus on customer engagement, understanding their business objectives, and aligning Tanzu solutions to drive value. - Act as a trusteed advisor, working collaboratively with their teams to maximize the benefits, adoptions and contribute to their long-term success. - Strategic Account Growth with opportunities for upselling and cross-selling Tanzu services based on their evolving needs.

  • Staff Product Manager at VMware Tanzu Labs
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

    As part of Digital Transformation program or strategy of global companies, VMware Tanzu Labs is helping enterprises modernise their applications by moving them to VMware Tanzu and adopting lean product management and extreme programming practices. Lean Program Management Practice: - OKRs at scale for a French public organization to drive innovation of 50 people as part of digital transformation - Train and coach 2 program managers to lean program management and lean governance of an IT department. Application Modernisation Practice: - a 30 years old mainframe for a large french public institution - 5 teams enabled to Tanzu Labs practices (domain driven design, event driven architecture, micro-services architecture) Application navigator: - a Oracle Forms app for a global financial institution (Event storming, process modeling, event driven architecture, micro-services architecture) - Modernisation strategy of monolith Java Application for Medium Size Enterprise Train and coach 6 Product Owners and Managers to VMware Tanzu Labs product management practices. Work with teams of 4 up to 12 developers.

  • Senior Product Manager at Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Sep 2019 - Jul 2020 · 11 mos

    Pivotal Labs - App Services - App modernisation Helping enterprises modernise their applications by moving them to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Modernize: - start 5 years modernisation program of rewriting a 30 years old mainframe for a large french public institution. - Migrate Java application to Pivotal Cloud Foundry for a large airline. Innovate: - Contact tracing app (Covid-19) - algorithm and analytics

  • AI Product Manager at LexisNexis France
    Jan 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Product Manager of Lexis Intelligence - Programme d'intelligence artificielle - LexisContrats using large language models (LLMs) based on legal content both private and public. Worked using lean software dev on User Experience, User Interface, a small team of Data Scientist to build our Proprietary LLM on our private infrastructure for Contract Analysis and Contract Generation. Worked with our internal editor team to clean the data sets and pre-train the LLMs. Worked with COMEX on monthly basis to prioritize the program with key leaders CMO, CPO, CTO and CEO Product Manager de LexisPoly - ERP pour les avocats et outil de rédaction d'actes juridique