KIKK Festival

Philippe Modard currently works as an engineer at Google in New York. However, his journey to get there was a long and eventful one. He has moved several times, participated in many projects, always followed his instinct and seized all the opportunities that came his way. To make a long story short, here's a brief overview of the road movie that has been his life. He started out as an aerospace engineer but was already attracted to software developing. New technologies fascinated him, so he decided to create his start-up, which didn't work out. He bounced back on his feet and quit the aerospace industry in order to fully commit to software. He moved to Luxemburg, where he joined a software start-up, created the first Start-up Weekend in Liege, presented at TEDx, learned a lot about start-ups, before joining a company called Storify in San Francisco. He worked at three start-ups in Silicon Valley before quitting to travel Asia for six months. When it was time to return, he decided to move to New York and knock on Google's door. He joined Google's Cloud Platform team, where he now works on the Container Builders' service, which allows any developer to automate their Docker container deployment process.