Sebastien Bock

About Sebastien Bock

Data-Science and Engineering leader with experience managing 50+ people teams. Experience Managing distributed and multi-cultural teams. Entrepreneur background as Co-founder of Nextperf (Online advertising company). The company raised a serie A and was sold in 2016 to Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce leader.

Experience

1. Data-science and Engineering, Advertising

   Amazon

   Jul 2021 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

   Lead a team of 100+ Managers, Engineers, Data-Scientists, Applied Scientists and ML engineers working on the auction dynamic (Real-Time Bidding) and optimizations (Sourcing/Targeting, Pricing, Ranking, Pacing, Experimentation) of the advertising Demand Side Platform (DSP).Lead initiatives end-to-end to improve the efficiency and revenue of the advertisers campaigns running on Amazon DSP. The initiatives directly driven by the team lead to an incremental ad revenue of $200M+ per year.Lead the Live Sports and Live Events bidding optimization to adjust the pacing and bidding systems to Live Content and Connected TV.Lead the custom bidding solutions (Bid adjustments) product as well as the advertiser-facing experimentation solutions (A/B Tests, Head-to Head)

Education

• ESIEA - École d'Ingénieur·e·s d'un numérique utile

  Engineer's degree, Management, Computer Science, Software Development

  1999 — 2004

• MBS School of Business

  MBA, Management

  2004 — 2004

Skills

• Big Data
• Java
• Online Advertising
• Tomcat
• Bigquery
• Javascript
• Memcached
• Mongodb
• Spark
• Planification Stratégique
• Html5
• Google Apps
• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• Php
• Symfony
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Tableau
• Html
• E-Commerce
• Hadoop
• Real Time Bidding
• E-Business
• App Engine
• Web Analytics
• Css