Work Experience
Leading platform strategy for identity verification at one of only 4 ANSSI-certified PVID providers in France. Coordinating across 2 DevOps/platform teams.
- Designed IaC pipeline for full tenant provisioning from scratch, cutting deployment lead time from 6 days to 8 hours
- Redesigned Ansible automation (200+ playbooks) using Netbox as single source of truth for infrastructure state
- Defined platform technical roadmap and aligned technologies across teams for ANSSI audit compliance (PVID) and ETSI 119 461 readiness
Designed multi-cloud Kubernetes platform strategy for video streaming infrastructure across 3 cloud providers.
- Architected and deployed production Kubernetes clusters on GCP, Azure, and AWS using Terraform modules
- Implemented IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking across all clusters, enabling global content delivery
- Built internal IaC platform with Ansible, Cobbler, Netbox, and Proxmox for on-premises capacity planning
- Designed Kubernetes middleware layer: ingress controllers, observability stack, service mesh patterns
Led platform team (up to 8 engineers) for healthcare-grade hosting. Defined migration strategy from legacy to Kubernetes for premium customers including French emergency services and military.
- Designed and delivered Kubernetes platform (Rancher/RKE on vSphere) with flexible on-premises deployment model, meeting HDS compliance
- Built end-to-end GitOps pipelines with GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, and ArgoCD, managing 50+ deployments
- Implemented full observability stack (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana) with SLO-based alerting
- Drove DevOps culture adoption across IT and R&D teams through internal training and documentation
Dedicated DevOps engineer for premium enterprise clients with full GitOps workflows in managed services context.
- Operated and evolved CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab, Nexus, SonarQube) for 5+ enterprise clients with GitOps practices
- Planned and executed platform evolutions, capacity planning, and cloud migration strategies
- Provided L2/L3 incident response and troubleshooting across Docker, Ansible, Apache, Varnish, Redis, ELK
Grew from tech support to system administrator within internal IT (BIIS) across European operations.
- System Administrator (2014-2018): Managed EU VMware cluster (200+ VMs), automated esports event infrastructure, implemented monitoring, initiated DevOps practices
- Junior Telecom Admin (2010-2014): Migrated analog to VoIP, administered Cisco CUCM worldwide, deployed digital signage for EU offices
- Helpdesk & Tech Support (2006-2010): Internal IT operations, procurement, live events support
B2B/B2C technical support foundations.
- Dell L2 Dispatcher: Validated all French technical troubleshooting prior to on-site interventions
- Microsoft L1: B2C/B2B technical support for the Windows XP SP2 launch
Projects
Self-hosting platform for privacy-focused cloud services (password manager, photo sharing). Talos OS, ArgoCD (40+ apps), Keycloak with FIDO2, full observability. IPv6 via Cloudflare to bypass CGNAT.