FREDERIC LESUR

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Roles : Senior Product Manager | Technical Product Manager | Technical Program Manager

Location: Tokyo, Japan | phone: +81 80 8706 2480 | email: contact@memiks.fr

Website: https://memiks.fr | https://github.com/memiks

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Product Manager and Technical Program Manager with 20+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud platforms, developer tools, enterprise architecture, and software-defined vehicles. At Woven by Toyota, own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for Arene platform products, including the Software Assembly Line, Arene Core, installer experiences, and cross-platform integration initiatives. Experienced in CI/CD, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Certification Lifecycle Management (CLM), software variant management, developer experience, and AI-enabled engineering tools. Combines product leadership and cross-functional delivery expertise with hands-on technical knowledge of automotive software, SDKs, APIs, cloud architecture, C/C++, Java, Python, and DevOps practices.

CORE COMPETENCIES

ITIL5 Certified • Product Strategy • Product Roadmaps • Product Lifecycle Management • Platform Products • Developer Experience • SDKs • Customer Requirements • User Activation and Retention • Cross-Functional Leadership • Technical Program Management • Agile Delivery • Release Management • Cloud Architecture • Enterprise Architecture • Automotive Software • APIs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Woven by Toyota - Tokyo, Japan

Senior Product Manager, Arene Software Assembly Line | September 2026 – Present

  • Own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for the Arene Software Assembly Line, an internal platform designed to manage the complexity of software-defined vehicle development.
  • Lead the preparation of automotive software migration to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices.
  • Extend the product vision to support Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Certification Lifecycle Management (CLM).
  • Proposed automation for software variant management across the full automotive V-Model development lifecycle.
  • Drive integration of the Software Assembly Line with other Arene and Woven products, platforms, and development processes.

Additional Product Responsibility: Internal AI Development Tool

  • Co-manage an internal AI-enabled development tool with a colleague.
  • Define requirements-elicitation workflows that transform prompts into requirements and test cases during pull-request workflows.
  • Implement automated validation and correction approaches using unit tests and end-to-end tests aligned with AI coding standards.

Senior Product Manager, Arene Core | December 2025 – July 2026

  • Own the product area for Arene Core within the Arene Product team.
  • Lead the Arene Installer product, including GUI and CLI experiences used to install Arene components.
  • Drive cross-component initiatives involving platform changes, technical debt, and dependencies affecting multiple engineering teams.
  • Support user acquisition, activation, and retention initiatives by identifying new user channels and improving onboarding paths.
  • Helped establish Arene as an integrated product with a unified installer.
  • Contributed to a common platform release approach and CMDB-based product tracking.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Arene Chief Architect | May 2025 – November 2025

  • Worked on the first Arene feature team to improve value delivery and reduce organizational silos.
  • Led cross-team coordination for the Arene Installer and integrated product initiatives.
  • Supported the integration of Arene components into a unified product experience.
  • Contributed to releasing Arene as an integrated product that could be installed through the Arene Installer.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Arene Engineering Platform | March 2024 – April 2025

  • Led work related to Arene Online Services, a cross-component team providing web service and front-end development expertise across the Arene organization.
  • Transitioned from Product Owner to Technical Program Manager to help address delivery, platform, and organizational challenges.
  • Applied technical and stakeholder-management experience to help teams focus on customer value and improve delivery velocity.
  • Worked on improving platform processes internally, with customers, and across platform teams.

Senior Product Owner, Arene OS / Arene Vehicle Platform | January 2023 – February 2024

  • Owned product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for Arene OS and related cross-product initiatives.
  • Gathered customer requirements and coordinated their inclusion in product planning.
  • Evaluated the inclusion of existing SDKs within the Arene OS ecosystem.
  • Managed multi-vehicle software roadmaps, including SDK scope variations by vehicle model.
  • Prepared product documentation for internal audits.
  • Presented product updates in monthly internal events.
  • Technologies and domains: SDKs, vehicle software, C/C++, product roadmaps.

Product Owner, Arene Data Platform | November 2021 – December 2022

  • Owned product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for in-vehicle data software.
  • Gathered and managed customer requirements for Arene data platform capabilities.
  • Validated requirements with Functional Safety and Privacy teams during audit activities.
  • Reviewed technical architecture designs against product and customer requirements.
  • Coordinated work across Toyota entities and data teams.
  • Assessed product capabilities against hardware and software constraints.
  • Estimated data-collection costs and proposed options to reduce them.
  • Technologies and domains: C/C++, gRPC, Functional Safety, data collection, Jama.

AXA Life Japan - Tokyo, Japan

Cloud Platform Architect | September 2019 – October 2021

  • Designed approximately 8–10 cloud platform architectures per year.
  • Supported solution architects and engineering communities in understanding and adopting cloud architecture patterns.
  • Helped raise cloud knowledge across the team and wider engineering organization.
  • Worked with AWS, OpenShift on AWS, private IaaS based on IBM technology, and identity technologies including SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect.
  • Earned AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification.

AXA France - France

Solution Architect | April 2016 – August 2019

  • Helped improve cloud and architecture knowledge across technical teams and IT departments.
  • Worked with AWS, Microsoft Azure, document management systems, publishing platforms, composition solutions, and e-signature technologies.
  • Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM FileNet, ARondor, e-signature platforms.
  • Earned TOGAF 9.1 Foundation certification.

Decathlon - France

Java/J2EE Expert and Scrum Master, Freelance | March 2015 – March 2016

  • Served as technical expert for a team of seven developers supporting a Decathlon design application.
  • Coached developers on Java, Git, Jenkins, Agile practices, and DevOps ways of working.
  • Improved feature and defect tracking through Jira and Git workflows.
  • Performed security assessments and planned remediation work within minimum marketable feature deliveries.
  • Introduced DevOps and quality tools including Sonar, Jenkins, and pgBadger.
  • Automated application releases with Jenkins.
  • Promoted test-driven development to improve team autonomy and delivery quality.

Atos Integration - France

Consulting Technical Manager, Freelance | August 2014 – March 2015

  • Acted as a bridge between development and functional teams.
  • Improved collaboration by helping technical and functional stakeholders understand each other's constraints and terminology.
  • Introduced issue tracking to improve change visibility and shorten delivery cycles.
  • Coached product owners on writing clearer specifications for development teams.
  • Selected and implemented development tools including Jenkins, Git, and Eclipse.
  • Introduced test-driven development practices and identified recurring technical issues.

La Redoute - France

Quality Engineer and Application Architect, Freelance | January 2014 – September 2014

  • Contributed to the creation of a quality engineering team for an international marketplace development organization.
  • Coached developers on test-driven development and product owners on quality practices.
  • Created and maintained a platform-wide test coverage map.
  • Implemented automated testing.
  • Served as software architect for the open-source Cerberus test suite.
  • Technologies: Java/J2EE, TDD, Cerberus, NetBeans, GlassFish.

EARLIER EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master and IT Expert, Decathlon France, Freelance | September 2012 – December 2013

Coached a five-person team on Agile and Scrum practices migrated a Java application from Ant/JSP to Maven/EJB moved source control from CVS to Git implemented automated testing.

Software Engineer, Vauban Humanis, Freelance | September 2010 – August 2012

Managed bug-fix roadmaps, releases, Java application updates, ETL work, and production incidents. Technologies included Java/J2EE, Oracle, JSP, Ant, CVS, and ETL.

Software Engineer, Atos Worldline | November 2004 – August 2010

Provided customer-facing production support for European customers managed bug-fix roadmaps, releases, Java application updates, technical debt, and production incidents.

EDUCATION

  • Computer Engineering Degree, Polytech'Tours France | 2000 – 2004
  • Preparatory Classes for French Engineering Schools, Lycée Robespierre France | 1998 – 2000

CERTIFICATIONS

  • ITIL Strategy, Version 5 - PeopleCert, September 2026
  • ITIL Experience, Version 5 - PeopleCert, August 2026
  • ITIL Service, Version 5 - PeopleCert, July 2026
  • ITIL Product, Version 5 - PeopleCert, June 2026
  • ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management - PeopleCert, December 2025
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Certification Badges, December 2020
  • TOEIC Listening and Reading - Score: 860/990, December 2018
  • TOGAF 9.1 Foundation - April 2018

SKILLS

Technical

Claude Code, AI Agentic, Amazon Bedrock, Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV), automotive software, SDKs, C/C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Docker, REST APIs, gRPC, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Jama, TDD, automated testing, Functional Safety (FuSa), privacy, GNU/Linux

Product

Product strategy, product vision, roadmaps, product lifecycle management, platform products, developer experience, requirements management, ALM, CLM, user activation, acquisition, retention, product integration, release strategy, AI developer tools

Management

Technical program management, cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, Agile, Scrum, release management, dependency management, technical debt, platform modernization, team coaching, technical mentoring, architecture review

Personal

Analytical problem-solving, systems thinking, customer focus, ownership, communication, collaboration, adaptability, curiosity, organization, prioritization, quality mindset

LANGUAGES

  • French: Native
  • English: Professional working proficiency
  • Japanese: Basic proficiency