Profile
- 10+ years of GNU/Linux system administration
- 10+ years of SQL database administration
- 5 years of NoSQL experience
- 8 years of software development (OOP too)
- 5 years of cloud computing experience (AWS, Google, Heroku, k8s, terraform)
- 5 years of engineering management (multiple teams of 3 to 12)
- A passion for learning, sharing and GTD (Getting Things Done)
- I believe in GitOps, and a low devops/instance ratio
Work Experience
12/2011 - present Executive Director, Infrastructure Percolate
Python, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, DDB, CFEngine, Docker, K8s
- Employee #8 (now 400+), responsible for the infrastructure, the datastores and the IT, reporting to the CEO
- Created and led the Devops, IT, Datastore and SRE teams, temporary led the backend team when needed
- Grew the infrastructure size (2000+ instances) while keeping the cost constant, leveraging spot instances and automation
- Automated everything: development VMs, staging cluster, live clusters
- Migrated and structured data over SQL and NoSQL depending on the access patterns
- Improved the engineers' life with continuous integration, continuous delivery and code reviews
- Got metrics, alerts and on-call system up: Uptime went from one nine to three nines
- Gave infrastructure talks and helped investors with due diligence
11/2010 - 11/2011 Technical Lead FreshPlanet
Python, ActionScript 3, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services
2/2007 - 9/2010 Back End Engineer OverBlog
PHP, PostgreSQL, Slony, Debian GNU/Linux
9/2006 - 1/2007 Software Engineer WS Interactive
HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
1/2006 - 8/2006 System Administrator NFrance Conseil
Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD
Debian GNU/Linux, OpenBSD
12/2001 - 12/2002 Freelance shpOOp!
HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Debian GNU/Linux
PHP, C, MySQL
Win32, C, Delphi
Education
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, IPST Cnam
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