Introduction
Expertise & Strengths
Work Experience
Studies
Technical Expertise & Tools
Europe/Paris
English
French
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Octave Olivetti
CDP Architect & Data Engineer | Customer 360° | Retail & LuxeI architect and engineer CDPs delivering measurable business results for retail and luxury: Customer 360°, cross-channel activation, segmentation, product recommendations, and cross-brand performance.
Senior technical profile with strong business focus. I design data architectures (flows, layers, segmentation), write production code (Python, SQL, GCP), and lead delivery teams. From strategy to execution, I deliver measurable results.
My work integrates business-optimized privacy into technical foundations, collaborating with your legal teams for sustainable performance and compliance.
Expertise & Strengths
Industry Expertise
LuxuryRetailFinanceMedia
Leadership & Delivery
Team ManagementTechnical DirectionAgile ExecutionCross-team Coordination
Strategic Communication
Executive StorytellingC-Level PresentationsStakeholder AlignmentKnowledge Transfer
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Tech-Business-Legal BridgeConflict ResolutionRequirements ChallengeDiplomatic Navigation
Work Experience
Guerlain (LVMH)2022 – 2025
Data Platform & Privacy Manager- Helped build & operated a global CDP (18M+ contacts, 32+ countries, €1B+ sales) on data-warehouse + marts architecture.
- Led global privacy program: OneTrust, opt-in, data sharing, privacy policies, GDPR processing registry.
- Managed data roadmaps and led cross-functional Dev&Run team (Delivery Manager + 3 Data Engineers).
- Launched Self-BI, GDPR trainings, and CNIL audit readiness.
Galeries Lafayette Group2019 – 2022
Data Manager / Data Engineer- Created and operated the group's GCP data platform (20M contacts, €4B+ sales).
- Coordinated data synergies for La Redoute acquisition: tools, governance, data products, and sharing.
- Advised executives and COMEX
- developed and maintained group dashboards for executive reporting.
- Built "Data Alliance" on GCP (BigQuery, Airflow, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes).
La Redoute2018 – 2019
Machine Learning Engineer- End-to-end ML/NLP pipelines on GCP for customer insights and product review clustering.
M6 (TV)2017 – 2018
Data Engineer- Audience segmentation and monetization dashboards (Tableau)
- INSEE geo data and national address database integration.
StreamMind2016 – 2017
Software Engineer (Project Lead)- Designed and delivered legal risk mapping software for global enterprises.
Procapital (Crédit Mutuel Arkéa)2015
Junior Data Engineer- Algorithms for processing and interpreting banking data for private banking and brokerage clients.
Studies
EPITECH
- Master's in Computer Science / Software Engineering (2017–2019)
- Bachelor's in Information Technology (2014–2017).
Université Laval
- Data modeling and languages, project management, and business management (2018).
Lycée Victor Duruy
- Baccalauréat scientifique with IT special courses (2013–2014).
Honors & Awards
- BCG Gamma - Data Science Challenge - 2017
Licenses & Certifications
- Contentsquare Certified - Jul 2024
- GDPR - Master data protection regulations - Jun 2019
- Google Cloud Onboard - Jan 2017
- TOEIC - Mar 2015
- Spark & Machine Learning & Scala - Jan 2015
Technical Expertise & Tools
Cloud Platform
- GCP full stack: BigQuery (advanced querying, cost optimization), DataFlow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Kubernetes
- CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Cloud Build
- Production Python & SQL, from architecture to run
Customer Data Platform & Analytics
- End-to-end CDP implementation (identity resolution, segmentation layers, activation use cases)
- Customer 360° engineering, product recommendations, high-potential customer identification
- Real-time & batch pipelines (Airflow, Python)
- BI/CRM dashboards for operational steering
Data Governance & Privacy
- Privacy-by-design architecture
- Consent management optimization
- Data cataloging & metadata management
- GDPR technical implementation: processing registry, data lineage, right to erasure
Business & Communication Tools
- Excel: analysis, ROI modeling
- PowerPoint: executive storytelling, C-level presentations
- PowerBI & Tableau: self-service BI, business dashboards
- Google Workspace (Sheets, Slides, Docs): cross-functional collaboration and business-accessible technical documentation