Louis Collard

Experience

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  Bridge Trust

  CTO

  Nov 2021 - Jan 2024

  Bridge Vault is a custodial service that provides a simple and secure solution to manage digital assets without worrying about the complexities of setting up and managing a self-custody wallet. We mitigate the risk of potentially losing seed phrases or private keys, or trusting an exchange to segregate and safekeep assets. Bridge Vault allows users to maintain total control and verifiable ownership of their funds while enjoying ease of use and peace of mind.

  • Led engineering from pre-product through to successful M&A exit, scaling the technical team and navigating a bet-the-company pivot along the way.
  • Rapid Strategic Pivot – Following the loss of a key strategic partner due to fallout from the FTX collapse, I drove a major pivot to repurpose our foundational tech for a regulated, retail-focused custodial wallet, which we shipped in under 3 months.
  • M&A Due Diligence – Successfully defended the platform's architecture and security posture during audits by external consultants, directly enabling the acquisition of the company’s IP and existing deployments.
  • Core Infrastructure – Architected and led implementation of the company’s global hybrid fiat/crypto money movement infrastructure, based on internal liquidity pools to bypass traditional bank latency and avoid external provider costs.
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  Google

  Engineering Manager

  Jul 2010 - Jul 2020

  • Led cross-functional engineering teams in Europe and Asia, specializing in high-availability infrastructure, machine learning, and cryptographic hardware security.
  • Chrome OS Security – Identified a critical, bare-metal cryptographic vulnerability in Google's secure enclave hardware. Spearheaded the global incident response and remediation.
  • Search Ads AI – Developed a custom low-latency model to make search-index signals usable in the live ad auction, ultimately driving a significant, measurable increase in CTR.
  • AdSense Infrastructure – Managed the team running the core display ads logging pipeline, processing billions of events daily under strict latency and correctness constraints. Beyond external reporting, this system was Google’s financial source of truth.