Chicago, IL · Codex Engineer at OpenAI

I build AI-native products
and the teams that ship them.

Career 25+ years turning ideas
into shipped software
Momentum 3 AI products shipped
in 18 months
Community 2K+ GitHub stars earned
by Witsy
Leadership 200 engineers led across
global teams

01 / Selected work

Products built for
real-world impact.

A selection of AI platforms, open-source tools, and products I’ve taken from idea to shipped software.

02 / Enterprise leadership

From boardroom intent
to production reality.

Architecture strategy, operating-model transformation, complex-program recovery, and global platform execution.

VP Architecture & Engineering · Account Chief Architect

Strategy
execution

Set engineering direction with C-suite leaders, then built the organizations, governance, platforms, and delivery systems required to make that strategy real.

10+ HUBS

one distributed engineering organization spanning countries, cultures, and time zones

20%+

better program economics through faster delivery, lower delivery costs, and successful turnarounds

Proof at global scale · McDonald’s Digital

$5B → $30B · 100+ markets · 2.5M orders/day

Led up to 200 engineers, launched loyalty to 150M+ users, and moved delivery from siloed teams and manual deployments to product-centric ownership and autonomous daily releases.

03 / Builder’s archive

Still shipping.
Since the dial-up days.

04 / About

Engineer’s hands.
Executive’s range.
Founder’s bias to action.

I’m a French-American engineering leader based in Chicago. My career has moved between founding products, writing code, turning around complex programs, and advising executives—but the thread is always the same: make ambitious technology real.

Today, I help engineering leaders transform software delivery through AI-native practices and Codex-powered workflows at OpenAI.

AI platformsAgentic systemsDeveloper productivity Distributed systemsEngineering leadershipProduct strategy

05 / Contact

Let’s build what’s next.

nicolas@bonamy.fr