— Romain Jouffret / Portfolio
Product & engineering
Los Angeles, CA
Building Droplet

RomainJouffret

Co-founder & Chief Product Officerat Warp Laboratory. Leading Droplet, an on-premise AI appliance for businesses in regulated industries. Previously Amazon & Kanopy.
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About — Product & engineering

Who I am, what I work on, and how I work.

I turn complex technology into products people can use. As co-founder and CPO at Warp Laboratory, I lead Droplet from concept and architecture to customer pilots. My 8+ years in software span distributed systems, ML experimentation, and privacy governance, including engineering at Amazon and Kanopy.

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Selected work

Current product leadership and selected engineering outcomes.
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Droplet2026 — present

Warp Laboratory

Leading product for an on-premise AI appliance that brings modern AI to small and medium-sized businesses in regulated industries, with no data leaving their premises.

· Product strategy· On-premise AI· Privacy

From concept to customer pilots

Three-year lease offering; pilots in photo, automotive, and real estate.

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Internal Applications Portal2026

Capital Group

Delivered DevOps improvements and disaster recovery planning for the internal applications portal during a senior full stack engineering contract.

· DevOps· Disaster recovery· Authentication

Portal authentication migrated

Moved portal authentication to NerveCenter.

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Distributed agent workflows2024 — 2026

Amazon

Automated xBR operational pipelines with distributed agent workflows, improving cross-service data validation accuracy.

· Agents· Distributed systems· Automation

4+ hours reclaimed each week

Product manager time saved through workflow automation.

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Marketing & Discoverability2024 — 2026

Amazon

Built and deployed ML-driven experiments with AWS Lambda, Python, and internal experimentation frameworks for Amazon Private Brands.

· ML experiments· AWS Lambda· Python

Personalization at scale

Improved personalization and merchandising for millions of customers.

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Reliable content ingestion2021 — 2024

Kanopy

Developed the Lambda job system for external supplier files and upgraded AWS ECS services in TypeScript and NestJS.

· TypeScript· NestJS· AWS

98% ingestion success rate

ECS upgrades also reduced post-release errors from 2,000+ per day to near zero.

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Publishing automation2021 — 2024

Kanopy

Revamped asset bundling and versioning, automated caption conversion, and synchronized databases with a third-party API.

· Content operations· Nuxt.js· API integration

150% more title throughput YoY

Caption editing time reduced by 80%; data exports saved the publishing team 4 hours daily.

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Experience — Recent roles

From software engineering to company building. Explore the full career below.
Mar 2026 — present
Leading Droplet from product strategy and architecture to customer pilots.
Newport Beach, CA
Feb 2026 — Apr 2026
Internal portal DevOps, disaster recovery planning, and authentication migration.
Contract
Oct 2024 — Mar 2026
Distributed agent workflows, ML experimentation, and privacy governance.
Santa Monica, CA
Feb 2021 — Nov 2024
Content ingestion, reliable cloud services, and publishing automation.
Irvine, CA
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Expertise — Product to production

Product leadership grounded in hands-on engineering.
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Product leadership
Product ownership from concept and architecture through execution and customer pilots.
StrategyProduct operationsTechnical leadership
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AI & privacy
On-premise AI, distributed agent workflows, and ML-driven experimentation.
On-premise AIAgentsML experiments
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Cloud & systems
Distributed workflows, microservices, and reliable content-processing services.
AWS LambdaECSS3
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Backend engineering
Job systems, business tools, and integrations with third-party APIs.
TypeScriptPythonPHPNestJS
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Frontend & platforms
Content management tools, caption workflows, and smart TV interfaces.
Vue.jsNuxt.jsDrupal
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DevOps & resilience
Deployment improvements, disaster recovery planning, and portal authentication.
DevOpsDisaster recoveryAuthentication
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Privacy governance
Former Amazon Privacy Bar Raiser: security audits, compliance, and secure design mentoring.
GDPRData governanceSecure design
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Customer delivery
Customer pilots, commercial offerings, client projects, and quality assurance.
PilotsCommercial strategyQA
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Contact — Channels

Get in touch about products, AI, and engineering.