Perspectives

Technology leadership,
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Thoughts on AI adoption, engineering transformation, cloud strategy and building high-performing teams — drawn from 20 years of doing it, not just reading about it. Posted regularly on LinkedIn and collected here.

Clement Palle
Clement Palle
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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