Independent consultancy GSTACK.IO – 2015-2024
Developed a consultancy business in the area of
Platform Engineering, SRE and DevOps practice. Focused on Cloud
platforms and Cloud automation, starting with Docker, Cloud
Foundry, Bosh and Concourse, then transitioning to Kubernetes,
GitLab, ArgoCD, and the Kubernetes ecosystem at large.
Speaker.
Spoke at several meetups and conferences in France and USA.
Trainer.
Built original training materials, exercises and
training platforms for various techs: • Kubernetes
starting 2022, delivered multiple times • Concourse
starting 2021, delivered to Criteo • Cloud Foundry
starting 2021, delivered to ATOS for Air France • Bosh
starting 2017, delivered to Orange multiple times.
@ Michelin.
Deployed, maintained and developed the 50+
Kubernetes clusters, managed by a mix of Tanzu, Ansible &
ArgoCD automation.
@
Travelers
(insurance, USA).
Joined a team effort to build multiple, complete
Cloud Foundry platforms on AWS, with the Bosh robot and Concourse
CI/CD automation, implementing promotion between environments, and
leveraging open source software exclusively.
@ SAP (Cloud, Germany).
Maintained the component that deploys the Bosh
robot, that manages the large amount of VMs for the gigantic
Business Technology Platform (BTP) at SAP, with 4500+ VMs total in
30 locations, and overall 430TB RAM.
@ Thales.
Documented in depth the Pivotal Cloud Foundry
platform running on top of AzureStack private Cloud, for data
security certification purposes. Developed and maintained the
Cloud Foundry platforms with Bosh and Concourse CI/CD automation,
running on top of Azure Cloud.
@ Renault.
Developed and maintained the 10+ Pivotal Cloud
Foundry platforms (used by connected cars from the Renault-Nissan
Alliance) with the Bosh robot and Concourse CI/CD
automation. Agile culture and pairing practices, state-of-the-art
Continuous Delivery of infrastructure-as-code, GitOps Cloud
platforms with gating tests and promotion.
@ Orange.
Coached a team of database experts in
packaging cluster deployments for Cassandra, MongoDB and MariaDB
database engines, as “Releases” for the Bosh
robot. Assisted the adoptions of CI/CD & software
craftsmanship culture, BOSH release design and
implementation.
@ Orange.
Helped in building an open source Cloud Foundry
platform. Automated platform tests and deployments with Concourse
CI/CD. Maintained the CloudStack stemcell and contributed an
affinity groups feature to the CloudStack CPI, which was a Java
codebase.
@ Carrefour.
Built a “software fabric” platform
(Jenkins, Jira, Artifactory, SonarCube) “as-a-service”
with Docker Compose and Docker Swarm, later Kubernetes on top of
an OpenStack private cloud.
Chief Technical Officer ALVARUM.COM – 2012-2015
Transitioned the IT team to a Scrum flow,
leveraging multi-skilled DevOps culture, and established Product
Management. Established early rough estimates, improving features
prioritisation into a downsized, lean roadmap.
Developed the Agile and Software Craftsmanship
culture. Reduced cycles from 6 to 3 weeks. Reached milestones in
improved team collaboration, autonomy, and flexibility.
Heavily refactored a monolithic legacy Java
Spring software, factoring out 4 new Groovy Grails microservices,
connected with REST APIs and Mule ESB data pipelines. Introduced
AngularJS as frontend tech, and new mobile-first web
designs.
Established the 24/7 on-call duties, teaching
early SRE practice to engineers, relentlessly eliminating
false-positives from the Nagios supervision.
Bootstrapped an IT services offer for higher
income, winning new business through workshops, formalising
customer business requirements.
Java Architect & Project Manager LINKEO – 2008-2012
Developed new web platforms for Click-to-Call and
Click-to-Chat services, with Java Spring backends and AJAX web
frontends. Large number of diverse technologies, related to Java,
web and telephony.
Senior Consultant PROVADYS – 2007
Evaluated Information Security risks in clients
organisations. Provided recommendations for improving internal
control. High quality standards in deliverables, self organisation
and communication to clients.
Information Systems Auditor SOCIETE GENERALE – 2005-2006
Drove internal audit engagements to assess
risks in IT organisations
, like African retail banking and leasing
companies in Europe. Conforming high quality standards in
methodologies and deliverables.
IT Security Expert SOCIETE GENERALE – 2003-2004
Deployed vulnerability scans to assess security
risks of public web servers, from all subsidiaries of the
Société Générale Group. Developed and
published a dashboard for monthly reviews of exposure levels, and
provided to operational teams guidance in identifying how to fix
vulnerabilities.
R&D Engineer SOCIETE GENERALE – 2001-2002
Developed a vulnerability scanner, with modular CORBA
architecture, a C++ framework for IP frames analysis, and
rendering modules for graphical results written in Perl and
PHP/PostgreSQL.
EDUCATION
MINES ParisTech
Master, Computer Science, Maths, Engineering Management
– 2000-2002
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy
Master, Computer Science and Control Theory
– 1998-2001
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Native French | Fluent in English | Good level in German | Chinese notions
REFERENCES
Available on request.
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