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Hands-on Engineering Manager

I help tech teams ship mobile products people love — across iOS, Android and backend, human and AI-augmented.

Paris · open to remote

Portrait of Axel Guilmin

About

How I got here

I started out building games in San Francisco — writing a cross-platform engine at Pixowl — then spent years as a mobile developer for startups across Europe.

At Lalalab I joined as a core iOS developer on an app used by 13M+ people, led its migration from Objective-C to Swift, and modernised how we ship — CI, tests, automated releases. From there I built and led the iOS team, launched white-label apps for Photoweb and Fnac, and grew into engineering management.

Today I lead a cross-functional team of six — iOS, Android, backend and QA — reporting to the CTO, and I'm the company's AI lead. We ship every three weeks and hold 4.8★ across 225K+ reviews. What I care about hasn't changed: shipping products people genuinely love, with a small, well-crafted team — human and AI-augmented.

See my full background on LinkedIn

Work

Apps I've shipped

  • Lalalab app icon

    Photo printing at scale — 13M+ downloads.

    App Store
    Lalalab
  • Photoweb app icon

    Photo prints & albums — white-label build.

    App Store
    Photoweb
  • Fnac Photo app icon

    Photo prints for Fnac — white-label build.

    App Store
    Fnac Photo
  • Cinemur app icon

    Movie social network — reviews & showtimes.

    Cinemur
  • CineVR app icon

    Immersive movie theater in VR.

    CineVR
  • Wootup app icon

    Photo messaging with a twist.

    Wootup
  • Grub app icon

    Arcade game · 1.6M+ downloads (Pixowl).

    Grub
  • RingMeMaybe app icon

    Playful calling app.

    RingMeMaybe
  • WINGiT app icon

    The WINGiT app + a B2B iOS SDK.

    WINGiT

Contact

Let's talk

Hiring, building a mobile team, or just want to talk shop? Drop me a line.