Frederic Rivain

I previously shared how having a culture of continuous learning is vital to the health and growth of our engineering team here at Dashlane. If we’re not learning, we’re stagnating. One way this mindset manifests itself is in our investment in and dedication to sending engineers to conferences and hosting engineering Meetups in our Paris office. Attending […]

I’m the father of three little girls, ages nine, six, and two. I’m also the CTO of a budding tech company, managing an engineering team of about 50. You might think that these two roles are constantly in conflict (and you might be right), but I’ve come to realize and appreciate that there are lots of parallels between […]

Achieving faster and more reliable releases is the goal of all CTOs and Engineering Teams. We want to keep up with the pace of business and shorten time-to-market to offer more value to our users. Continuous Delivery, as promoted by Jez Humble and David Farley, is one of the paths to achieving that objective. There are […]

A few years ago, Dashlane decided to move to Agile software development. At that time, it essentially meant adopting the Scrum project methodology inspired by the Agile Manifesto. But that was only the start of the Agile journey at Dashlane. As the company grew, we went through several steps of change, always trying to adapt […]

– Updated October 20 2021 – Our users, partners, and job candidates often ask, “what is the technology stack we use?” “What are the engines behind Dashlane?” Let’s pop the hood and take a look inside! Dashlane’s Tech Stack From Day 1, we aimed to build the best application possible for each environment and take […]

Last Thursday, we hosted the Paris Security Meetup in the Dashlane Office in Paris. 40 guests joined us for 2 discussions: The first was related to the investigation of a password-stealing malware. It was a very interesting step-by-step analysis of how malware programs operate. The second was around house intercoms. We discussed how new models of intercoms that […]

I like to learn new stuff, all the time. I believe this is a need that also allows me to progress and be better every day. That spirit of learning continuously is one of the keys for performance, and as such in all my career I have pushed for a culture of Continuous Learning. Nowadays, […]

As we add new members to the Dashlane team, we’ve introduced two new tools, inspired from the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) framework–an Agile development framework that allows an enterprise to move towards adopting lean-agile practices. I believe that these two tools are critical to scaling your team’s agile development: 1. A Portfolio of projects: Each project we do is […]

At Dashlane, we want to offer the best for our users and relentlessly keep improving our product for all. To achieve this ambition, we need recruit the best talent to join our Engineering team. However, scaling an Engineering team is not a simple task. There are many risks associated with growing your Engineering team and […]

Henrik Kniberg from Crisp is one of my favorite blog writer and author in the field of Agile and Organization. A lot of his work has been a huge inspiration to me. I recently shared with the Dashlane team a summary of Henrik’s slides called “Stop Starting. Start Finishing”. These offer great tips on how to […]

Hi everyone, My name is Frédéric Rivain. I am the new VP of Engineering (CTO) at Dashlane. I am taking the opportunity to write a first Tech post on the Dashlane blog. Even though we tweet regularly, we now also intend to publish technical articles about our practices and our experience. We’ll share our technical ideas, […]