Based in San Francisco, Maxime Prades is currently the VP of Product & Solutions Engineering at Algolia, a hosted search API company, where he leverages his experience refining & scaling products that customers will love.
 
Prior to joining Algolia in January 2017, Maxime spent a little under 6 years at Zendesk managing & scaling Product teams. He also oversaw development of the Zendesk Platform - including the APIs, Marketplace, Framework & Mobile SDKs.

Prior to Zendesk & Algolia, Maxime worked for PeopleDoc, an enterprise HR software company based out of Paris.  

Maxime earned his masters degree in Paris at ESCE Business School and is also an investor in Zenly and CloudApp