Raphaël Gonçalves, Engineering Manager in Berlin
Engineering Manager at everphone, Berlin. Engineering manager and tech lead at everphone in Berlin. 10+ years scaling teams, systems and strategy in B2B SaaS, still hands-on with architecture.
I started out writing PHP in Toulouse and gradually moved from writing most of the code to helping teams write better code together. At Spectrm I stayed from seed all the way to Series B, co-led an engineering organisation of 30+ engineers as the company grew to 60+ people, and introduced Go into the stack. I joined everphone during its scale-up phase and have led teams there through both growth and downsizing. Today I work on moving a PHP monolith to Go microservices, on developer experience, and on bringing AI and agentic workflows into how we build software. I care about the bridge between deep technical work, compliance (ISO 27001, GDPR, DORA) and business goals, and I still keep a few side projects going to stay hands-on.
Experience
- 2022 – Present: Engineering Manager & Tech Lead, everphone (Berlin). everphone is a B2B device-as-a-service company: businesses rent smartphones, tablets and laptops for their employees instead of buying them.
- 2020 – 2022: Interim Co-Head of Engineering & Tech Lead, Spectrm (Berlin). Spectrm was a conversational marketing platform: brands used it to build chatbots and campaigns on Messenger, WhatsApp and other messaging channels.
- 2016 – 2020: Backend → Senior Backend Engineer, Spectrm (Berlin). Spectrm was a conversational marketing platform: brands used it to build chatbots and campaigns on Messenger, WhatsApp and other messaging channels.
- 2010 – 2016: Software Engineer & Consultant, Couleur Citron & freelance (Toulouse)
Projects
- Comment votent les partis?: Shows how French parties vote in the European Parliament and the National Assembly, and compares their votes with their election programs
- Forge: Hyrox and CrossFit workout tracker that imports the workout of the day from Octiv, and tracks streaks and muscle groups
- Svalin: Governance and policy system for AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini) that logs, governs and audits agent operations.
- Facebook Developer Circle Berlin: Founded and led the Berlin developer community, growing it from 0 to 3,000+ members.
- This website: A chat-first personal site where an AI assistant answers questions about me, using RAG on Firebase.
Skills
- Programming languages: Go, PHP, TypeScript
- Spoken languages: French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate, B1/B2), German (beginner, A1/A2)
- Frontend: React, Vue.js, Angular
- Frameworks: Symfony
- Cloud and infrastructure: GCP (everphone), AWS (Spectrm), Docker, Terraform, CI/CD
- Architecture: Microservices, Monolith-to-microservices migration, APIs
- Compliance and security: ISO 27001, ISO 9001, GDPR, DORA
- Leadership: Engineering management, Cross-functional teams (DevOps, QA), Goal-based team structure, Scaling teams (seed to Series B, 30+ engineers), Leading teams through downsizing, Fundraising due diligence, Hiring and interview process design, Engineer onboarding
- AI: Agentic development workflows, RAG, AI agent governance
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