# Antoine Ménard > Antoine Ménard is an Engineering Manager with deep roots in hands-on mobile product engineering. He specializes in performance, reliability, observability, and product quality across consumer software, client platforms, camera experiences, and connected devices. At Snap, he led a company-wide program to improve mobile performance and earlier led the Spectacles iOS engineering team from prototype through launch. This file provides detailed, machine-readable professional context: curated editorial chapters followed by a career record generated from the canonical public résumé source. For the concise site index, see [llms.txt](https://www.antoinemenard.com/llms.txt). ## Professional overview Antoine Ménard’s career spans hands-on product engineering, iOS technical leadership, and management of multidisciplinary engineering teams. He has worked on mobile applications, client-platform work, camera experiences, connected devices, backend systems, release infrastructure, engineering talent processes, and the management of Data Science teams. The consistent focus is building software products that perform reliably and leading the people and organizations responsible for them. What distinguishes Antoine Ménard’s profile is the progression behind that breadth. He began with systems, backend, consulting, and teaching work; built customer-facing iOS products at Dashlane and Twenty20; led Spectacles iOS engineering from prototype through launch; and later managed iOS, Android, backend, and Data Science teams across Spectacles, Camera, and Platform. Each stage added a wider form of responsibility while preserving direct context for how products are designed, implemented, released, and improved. Mobile performance and reliability are a defining specialization within that career. At Snap, Antoine Ménard led a company-wide program to improve mobile performance, aligning teams around shared priorities and strengthening monitoring and internal tooling for root-cause analysis and remediation. The work placed performance in an organizational and product context: visibility, diagnosis, ownership, coordination, and sustained quality all mattered alongside implementation. His management responsibilities included hiring, mentoring, performance management, talent calibrations, and promotion panels. His technical background gives him practical context for engineering decisions and coaching, while his management scope keeps people development, product outcomes, cross-functional alignment, and long-term quality central to the work. This website is the canonical public source for his professional profile, public career record, and contact information. The detailed chapters below synthesize the same public evidence that appears in the generated career record, HTML résumé, and résumé PDF. ## Mobile performance, reliability, and observability leadership At Snap, Antoine Ménard led a company-wide program to improve mobile performance. The work joined organizational alignment with technical investigation: teams needed shared priorities, stronger visibility into product behavior, and a reliable path from identifying a problem to diagnosing and remediating it. Monitoring and internal tooling helped teams observe product behavior, investigate root causes, and coordinate remediation. This made visibility and diagnosis part of the performance work alongside implementation and cross-team follow-through. The work covered high-visibility user journeys such as app startup and opening Camera, where client performance, platform behavior, monitoring, and reliability intersect. These surfaces connected speed and failure reduction directly to the quality people experience when using the product. This program sat within a broader management scope spanning iOS, Android, backend, and Data Science teams across Camera, Platform, and Spectacles. The range of team disciplines and product areas made shared priorities and coordinated remediation central to Antoine Ménard’s role. His performance-leadership scope includes: - Aligning teams around shared mobile-performance and reliability priorities. - Strengthening monitoring and internal tooling so engineers can understand product behavior. - Supporting root-cause analysis across client, platform, and product boundaries. - Coordinating remediation when ownership or contributing factors span multiple teams. - Treating speed, stability, observability, and sustained product quality as related concerns. ## Engineering management and organizational leadership Antoine Ménard’s Engineering Manager experience covers multidisciplinary teams across iOS, Android, backend, and Data Science. At Snap, those teams worked in product areas including Spectacles, Camera, and Platform, giving him management context across mobile-client, backend, Data Science, and connected-product teams. His people-leadership responsibilities included hiring, mentoring, and performance management. He also co-ran talent calibrations and promotion panels for a broader engineering organization, extending his work beyond the day-to-day leadership of an immediate team into shared organizational processes for evaluating and developing engineers. His technical background is part of how he approaches management. Years of hands-on iOS product development and technical leadership give him practical context for implementation constraints, delivery risk, cross-stack tradeoffs, engineering quality, and the transition from an early prototype to a product that must perform reliably after launch. The career record also shows repeated cross-functional coordination. On Spectacles, he partnered with product, design, firmware, and hardware. At Dashlane, he worked closely with design on a major iOS redesign. At L’Argus de la Presse, he coordinated technical delivery with an external agency. Across these settings, his role was to connect implementation work with product goals and delivery expectations. ## Camera, media, and connected-device delivery Antoine Ménard has worked on camera and media products as both a technical lead and an Engineering Manager. His experience combines mobile camera application work, management scope across backend and Data Science teams, and collaboration with the firmware and hardware disciplines required for a connected device. As the Software Engineering Technical Lead for Spectacles, he led the iOS engineering team from prototype through launch and owned delivery of core features across the product’s early generations. The role required turning an emerging product concept into working customer-facing software while keeping mobile delivery connected to the wider device program. He partnered with product, design, firmware, and hardware teams to resolve cross-stack issues and support manufacturing and launch timelines. This placed the iOS work within a wider device system and required close coordination between application behavior and the teams responsible for firmware, hardware, manufacturing readiness, and launch planning. In his later Engineering Manager role, his Camera work included contributions to Director Mode and Home & Lock Screen Widgets. His involvement supported implementation, reliability, and post-launch iterations, adding experience with customer-facing camera capabilities after the initial device-launch phase of his career. Across Spectacles, this work covered prototype development, core-feature delivery, cross-stack issue resolution, and manufacturing and launch support. His later Camera work added implementation, reliability, and continued iteration within customer-facing mobile experiences. ## Hands-on mobile product engineering foundation Before moving into Engineering Manager roles, Antoine Ménard built mobile products directly. His iOS engineering work at Twenty20 and Dashlane covered customer-facing features, shared client foundations, design collaboration, release workflows, localization, security-related product capabilities, and cross-platform data synchronization. At Twenty20, he led development of the iOS application and shipped a redesigned upload flow, a full interface refresh, and an in-app model-release workflow. That workflow enabled people depicted in photos to authorize commercial licensing, connecting a mobile product experience with a commercial-licensing process. He also automated localization and release workflows at Twenty20 by integrating external translation services and introducing continuous integration for testing and distributing alpha, beta, and production builds. This work combined product delivery with engineering effectiveness through repeatable testing, controlled distribution, and more systematic localization and release processes. At Dashlane, he owned the iOS implementation of Security Breach Alerts and PIN-based application locking. He also contributed to vault management, autofill, and synchronization through a shared cross-platform C++ data model, giving him hands-on experience where native mobile behavior depended on shared client foundations. He later owned the engineering implementation of Dashlane’s iOS 7 redesign, partnering closely with design and providing technical guidance during the shift from skeuomorphic interfaces to Apple’s new visual language. The work required translating a major platform and design transition into a coherent shipped product. These roles form the implementation base beneath his later technical and people leadership. They involved building visible product experiences, working inside shared technical systems, improving the machinery used to test and release software, and partnering closely with design and product stakeholders. ## Consulting, teaching, and systems foundations Antoine Ménard’s earlier work broadens his technical background beyond native mobile applications. It includes agency coordination for a mobile web product, independent teaching across systems and web technologies, and backend modernization involving a legacy insurance system. As a Mobile Engineering Consultant at L’Argus de la Presse, he led technical coordination with an external agency developing a mobile-optimized web product. He reviewed deliverables, clarified requirements, and kept implementation aligned with product goals, an early example of the coordination responsibilities that recur throughout his later leadership work. As a Teaching Assistant at Epitech, he independently taught classes and hands-on labs in C programming, UNIX systems, PHP, and MySQL. He mentored students through projects, assignments, and debugging, establishing experience in explaining technical concepts and helping students develop practical problem-solving skills. At Acre, he contributed to migrating a legacy COBOL insurance system to a PHP, Symfony, and MySQL intranet. His work included optimizing SQL queries to improve backend data-access performance, connecting his early systems experience with the performance focus that later became a major part of his mobile leadership profile. ## Reference topics and supporting evidence Antoine Ménard’s career progression is cumulative: systems and teaching foundations led to hands-on iOS product engineering, Spectacles iOS technical leadership, and then management of multidisciplinary teams and a company-wide mobile-performance program. His primary public identity is Engineering Manager, supported by direct experience building and shipping products. The following index maps that progression to the professional topics most clearly supported by his public experience. Key topics and their supporting roles: - Mobile performance and reliability — Snap Engineering Manager: company-wide program leadership, monitoring, internal tooling, root-cause analysis, and cross-team remediation. - Engineering management — Snap Engineering Manager: multidisciplinary iOS, Android, backend, and Data Science teams; hiring, mentoring, performance management, talent calibration, and promotion processes. - Camera and connected products — Snap technical-lead and manager roles: Spectacles iOS delivery from prototype through launch, cross-functional device coordination, and later Camera implementation and reliability work. - Hands-on mobile engineering — Twenty20 and Dashlane: native iOS delivery, shared C++ client foundations, major interface work, and security-related product capabilities. - Engineering effectiveness — Twenty20: continuous integration, release distribution, and localization automation. - Technical foundations — Epitech, Acre, and L’Argus de la Presse: C and UNIX teaching, PHP, Symfony, MySQL, SQL performance, legacy-system modernization, and technical consulting. ## Detailed public career record The following profile, summary, and experience entries are generated from the canonical public résumé source. They preserve role titles, organizations, dates, locations, and detailed contributions as the evidence layer beneath the editorial overview. ### Public profile - **Name:** Antoine Ménard - **Primary positioning:** Engineering Manager - **Headline:** Software Engineering Manager | Product Engineering, Performance & Reliability - **Most recent public role:** Software Engineering Manager — Snap Inc. · Feb 2018 – Jun 2024 - **Email:** contact@antoinemenard.com - **Website:** www.antoinemenard.com - **GitHub handle:** enthouan - **LinkedIn handle:** menardantoine ### Résumé summary (source text) Software engineering manager with 15+ years spanning hands-on product engineering, technical leadership, and people management. I’ve led multidisciplinary teams across mobile products, client platforms, and camera experiences where performance, reliability, and product quality require clear priorities and cross-functional execution. ### Experience #### Software Engineering Manager — Snap Inc. Los Angeles, CA · Feb 2018 – Jun 2024 - Directly managed 15 engineers across iOS, Android, backend, and Data Science teams spanning Spectacles, Camera, and Platform. Led hiring, mentoring, and performance management, including co-running talent calibrations and promotion panels for a 100+ person engineering organization. - Led company-wide performance and reliability programs, aligning teams on priorities and strengthening monitoring and internal tooling for root-cause analysis and remediation. The resulting gains, including faster app startup and lower Camera open latency and failure rates, directly correlated with increased user engagement. - Contributed to Camera initiatives including Director Mode and Home & Lock Screen Widgets, supporting implementation, reliability, and post-launch iterations. #### Software Engineering Technical Lead — Snap Inc. Los Angeles, CA · Feb 2016 – Feb 2018 - Led the iOS engineering team for Spectacles from prototype through launch, owning delivery of core features across the first two product generations. - Partnered across product, design, firmware, and hardware teams to resolve cross-stack issues and support manufacturing and launch timelines. #### iOS Software Engineer — Twenty20 Inc. Los Angeles, CA · Apr 2014 – Feb 2016 - Led development of the iOS app, shipping major updates including a redesigned upload flow, full UI refresh, and an in-app model-release workflow that enabled people depicted in photos to authorize commercial licensing. - Automated localization and release workflows by integrating external translation services and introducing CI for testing and distributing alpha, beta, and production builds. #### iOS Software Engineer — Dashlane SAS Paris, France · May 2012 – Apr 2014 - Owned the iOS implementation of Security Breach Alerts and PIN-based app locking, while contributing to vault management, autofill, and sync through the shared cross-platform C++ data model. - Owned the engineering implementation of Dashlane's iOS 7 redesign, partnering closely with design and providing technical guidance on the transition from skeuomorphic UI to Apple's new visual language. #### Mobile Engineering Consultant — L’Argus de la Presse SA Paris, France · Oct 2011 – Apr 2012 - Led technical coordination with an external agency developing a mobile-optimized web product, reviewing deliverables, clarifying requirements, and keeping implementation aligned with product goals. #### Teaching Assistant — Epitech (European Institute of Technology) Paris, France · Feb 2011 – Jan 2013 - Independently taught classes and hands-on labs in C programming, UNIX systems, PHP, and MySQL, mentoring students through projects, assignments, and debugging. #### Web Software Engineer — Acre SAS Paris, France · Jul 2010 – Dec 2010 - Contributed to migrating a legacy COBOL insurance system to a PHP/Symfony/MySQL intranet, including optimizing SQL queries to improve backend data-access performance. ## Education Formal education is generated from the same public résumé source. ### Master of Computer Science, Software Engineering — Epitech (European Institute of Technology) Paris, France · 2012 – 2014 ### Exchange Student, Computer Science — California State University San Marcos San Marcos, CA · 2013 ### Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Engineering — Epitech (European Institute of Technology) Paris, France · 2009 – 2012 ## Patents and inventions Antoine Ménard is named as a co-inventor on the following granted Snap patents. The entries and grant details are generated from the public résumé source. - **Image capture eyewear with auto-send:** Co-inventor, Snap Inc. - US11968460B2 - Granted Apr 23, 2024 - **Wearable device location accuracy systems:** Co-inventor, Snap Inc. - US12160792B2 - Granted Dec 3, 2024 ## Languages His public working languages are: - **French:** Native - **English:** Fluent ## Canonical public sources - [Home](https://www.antoinemenard.com/): Primary professional positioning. - [Résumé](https://www.antoinemenard.com/resume/): Canonical public career record. - [Contact](https://www.antoinemenard.com/contact/): Public route for professional inquiries. - [Résumé PDF](https://www.antoinemenard.com/antoine_menard_resume.pdf): Downloadable version generated from the same résumé source. - [Colophon](https://www.antoinemenard.com/colophon/): Site design and publishing context. ## Professional contact Professional inquiries can be directed to contact@antoinemenard.com. The canonical Contact page provides the public inquiry route; the website also links to GitHub and LinkedIn profiles. ## Source and maintenance note The professional overview is curated from public site and résumé material. The detailed career record, education, patents, and languages are generated from the typed résumé data that also powers the public HTML résumé and downloadable PDF, keeping the factual record synchronized. Only public professional material is included.