Perspectives
Technology leadership, in plain language.
Thoughts on AI adoption, engineering transformation, cloud strategy and building high-performing teams. Drawn from real decisions made at scale, not theory.
Clement Palle
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Head of Technology at Liv-ex · London
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Clement Palle
November 2025
DORA metrics showed us where the bottlenecks were. Changing the culture around them was the harder work. Code cycle time went from weeks to under 2 days. PR turnaround under 6 hours. The numbers were easy once the team understood why they mattered.
Developer Experience
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Clement Palle
October 2025
Our outsourced partners built and managed the platform for years. They were good. The move to in-house was not about their performance. It was about our growing dependency making commercial conversations harder as the business scaled. A strategic decision, not a reaction.
Transformation
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Longer form writing where a LinkedIn post is not enough. Each one draws directly from real decisions and real outcomes.
Why we built an AI governance framework before we rolled out Copilot
Most organisations are rushing to deploy AI tools. We took a different approach — governance framework first, then rollout. Here is what we learned and why the sequence matters.
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Why being an early cloud adopter meant COVID never disrupted us
When lockdown hit we moved to remote working with zero disruption. That was not luck. It was the result of decisions made years earlier.
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How a security decision became a revenue decision
We implemented Two-Factor Authentication across our trading platform. Most people saw it as a security project. Here is how we turned 2FA into incremental ARR.
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