Romain Pechayre

Head of Engineering

Pennylane

Jan 2026 - Current (10 months)

Accounting, Firm OS, Platform

Senior Engineering Manager

Pennylane

May 2021 - Dec 2025 (4 years 8 months)

Pennylane is the all-in-one financial and accounting platform for business owners and their bookkeepers.

Thanks to Pennylane:

- CEOs are able to make smarter decisions and facilitate their financial management in one centralized place with up-to-date and reliable data.
- Through numerous automatizations, bookkeepers are able to save time on laborious and repetitive tasks, allowing them to spend more time advising their clients.

Started in 2020, Pennylane already accompanies more than 1,000 French companies and 100 accounting firms.

Co-Founder and CTO

YEELD

Feb 2018 - Jan 2021 (3 years)

Yeeld is a challenger bank helping people to save money effortlessly using cool saving rules
- 📈 From 0 to 100k clients with a tiny product team: 1 designer, 3 Software Engineers, and 1 CTO
- 👩‍💻 🧑‍💻 Eng processes: created the recruitment process and software engineer practices --> hired top-notch software engineers
- ❤️ Culture & Processes: in charge of the company culture (core values, async & remote work) and company processes (OKR, Weekly reports, documentation, etc)
- 📱 Product Management: no PM in the team. We created a culture of crowdsourced product management. Everyone owns the product. We align on the goals (OKRs) and create small project teams where people work independently to reach the goal. Pri

Co-Founder & CTO

Eventmakerio

Sep 2010 - Jan 2018 (7 years 5 months)

Eventmaker is a bootstrapped company. We offer an event management cloud platform
- We grew organically (no funding) from 2 to 20+ employees in 5 years.
- Managed of a team of 10 Software Engineers.
- In charge of the roadmap and engineering processes
- I implemented the Shape Up methodology in 2017 (long before the book was published) out of a blog post from Basecamp. We had fantastic results and it took us a couple of weeks to be up and running with Shape Up

Operational Research Analyst

Air France

Nov 2008 - Oct 2010 (2 years)

- Revenue Management : design, specification and development of demand unconstraining and forecasting engines for a revenue management system.
- Trafic forecasting : building a robust and accurate forecasting engine in C++ for flight passengers and catering.

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Analyst

SCRLLP

Sep 2007 - Mar 2008 (7 months)

Intern in Innovation and Operational Research

Bouygues

Apr 2007 - Aug 2007 (5 months)

In charge of designing and coding a personalized recommendation engine. It could be applied to any type of content.

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