About Me

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Summary

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With 18+ years of progressive experience in Cloud, DevOps, SecOps, and FinOps, I drive digital transformation by aligning cloud strategy with measurable business outcomes. My expertise spans high-level architecture design to hands-on infrastructure implementation, with proven success in optimizing cloud cost efficiency and security posture. I’ve led engineering teams across startups and Fortune 500 enterprises, defining technical vision and delivering complex infrastructure projects that scale.

Experience

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Senior Cloud Engineer / SRE

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Major industrial technology group (Switzerland) — Sep 2023 - Present

Operating and evolving a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform spanning AWS and Azure, supporting multiple project teams while advancing AI/ML infrastructure capabilities.

• Operate and maintain a shared multi-cloud Kubernetes platform on AWS and Azure, onboarding and supporting multiple project teams including IOT platform deployments and AI RAG Chatbot projects.
• Drive AI infrastructure initiatives: tested AI inference on Kubernetes, integrated cloud AI services, and developed an AI-powered alert enricher that provides intelligent first-level analysis of AlertManager alerts to Opsgenie.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, significantly enhancing system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency across the platform.
• Design and develop reusable infrastructure-as-code components using Terraform, Helm and Crossplane.
• Implement and manage comprehensive observability stack using Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Opsgenie/Statuspage.

Cloud Engineer & Architect

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Global robotics leader (France) — Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

Cloud infrastructure design and implementation on Kubernetes platform with focus on IaC and CI/CD optimization.

• Collaborate closely with development teams to deploy and operate applications to Kubernetes-based platform.
• Create comprehensive architecture documentation and presentations for new and existing solutions.
• Re-design and implement Kubernetes cluster deployment strategy using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop reusable templates for Infrastructure as Code, accelerating project initiation and ensuring consistency.
• Design and build scalable GitLab runner solutions on AWS, optimizing CI/CD performance and resource utilization.
• Design and implement CI/CD OIDC integration, enhancing security and simplifying pipeline deployments to AWS.
• Deploy and configure security and compliance solutions including GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Config.

Cloud Specialist

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Cloud consulting firm (France) — Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

Cloud expert guiding customers through successful transitions to the cloud.

• Designed cloud infrastructures meeting specific business requirements, including landing zones and cloud-ready architectures.
• Planned cloud adoption and migration strategies, assessing current infrastructure and defining new processes.
• Secured environments by auditing infrastructure against security frameworks (CIS, CSA) and implementing necessary policies.
• Optimized cloud usage (FinOps) by analyzing consumption, identifying billing optimization opportunities, and reducing waste.

Technical Lead Cloud

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European IT consultancy (France) — Sep 2019 - Mar 2021

Endorsed both consulting and internal activities.

Cloud architect @ Global shipping and logistics leader (France)

• Cloud architect: Designed and validated cloud architectures for business projects and landing zones components (network, backup, authentication, log management).
• FinOps lead: Implemented tagging policy and compliance tracking. Educated project teams on FinOps culture. Analyzed and proposed Saving Plans and architecture changes to optimise the cloud bill.
• Cloud advisor: Worked on Target Operating models aligned with Cloud architecture models. Evangelised agile methodologies with a product-based approach. Followed cloud security and compliance area to implement checks and guardrails.

DevOps Engineer @ Top 5 European bank

• Assisted the developer team to deliver a Django project to AWS environments. Created multiple environments using automation pipelines with GitlabCI, Docker and Terraform.

Technical Lead Cloud @ Internal

• Pre-sales, Recruitment, creation of Cloud offers, Training, Webinars, Drive Cloud practice community.

Cloud teacher

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Campus Sciences-U (France) — Mar 2021 - Jul 2022

Taught Azure and FinOps both remotely and on-site to large groups of students.

• 2022 - Azure training - Bachelor 3 - 16h
• 2021 - Azure training - Bachelor 3 - 15h
• 2021 - FinOps training - Master 2 - 18h

Infrastructure technical lead

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Global digital-out-of-home advertising platform (UK) | Contract — May 2018 - Mar 2019

Infrastructure lead of 5 engineers. Implemented scrum, improved global infrastructure documentation, controlled and reduced AWS costs, reviewed and reduced technical debt.

• Hands-on: Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Bash.

DevOps consultant

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Top 5 global bank (UK) | Contract — Mar 2017 - Jan 2018

Part of the adoption program team focused on deploying infrastructure on AWS.

• Created on-demand and on events compliance checks based on CloudTrail events leveraging Python Lambda functions.
• Implemented GitOps principles for Terraform infrastructure using Go.Cd automation tool.
• Hands-on: Terraform, Lambda, Go.cd and Python.

Senior Infrastructure Developer

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Major UK retailer | Contract — Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

Member of the Infra Dev team working on DevOps projects to bring cloud automation.

• Evaluated several ways to deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Developed an automated solution to analyse and propose cost optimisation across multiple AWS accounts based on Trusted Advisor recommendations.
• Hands-on: Terraform, Lambda, Kubernetes.

Cloud Consultant

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Global cloud consultancy (UK) — Jul 2015 - Oct 2016

Cloud architect @ Fortune 10 energy company (UK)

• Designed and validated cloud architectures for a worldwide enterprise cloud solution. Satisfied security and compliance requirements. Integrated with existing processes, tools, infrastructure and network. Drove DevOps patterns with deployment of automation, workflow engine and log capture tools.

Cloud Consultant @ Major UK financial regulator

• Created the roadmap for the cloud transformation phase 2 (Highly available services, Security, Review Best Practices, Identify tech debt).

Role Owner @ Internal

• Created the job description to recruit new consultants, conducted more than 30 interviews and defined evaluation criteria and career path for the team.

Co-Founder and CTO

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Early-stage startup (co-founded, France) — Oct 2013 - June 2015

Co-founded with two partners, leading the technical vision for private and public cloud service offerings.

• Entrepreneur: Design and implementation of cloud infrastructures, create private and public cloud offers, digital marketing, sales prospection and business networking.
• Partnership with Alcatel Lucent Enterprise and provide R&D expertise to create a Private Cloud solution offering.
• Trainer for an accelerated training program to upskill/reconvert professionals to become IT support technicians.

Senior ICT Consultant

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Swiss IT services firm — Jan 2011 - Sept 2013

Helped clients with their IT projects involving: Citrix, Hyper V, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, BackupExec, Forefront, Remote Desktop Service, Profile Management, SAN, Vmware, LANdesk and Network.

Project support manager

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Global IT services company (France) — Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

In charge of customer care for a document digitalization project for French national insurance.

System administrator

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Global IT services company (France) — May 2007 - Aug 2009

Installation, configuration, maintenance and infrastructure optimization at French IT dep. Technical assistance to project teams. Solution evaluation (Billing, monitoring).

Skills

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Technical

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• AWS & Azure
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Terraform / Helm / Crossplane
• CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins)
• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Python / Bash / Go

Professional

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• Technical Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Effective communication
• Team player

Education

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• Master in Computer Science — ITIN (France)
• DUT Network and telecommunication — Grenoble University (France)

Certifications

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• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• Certified: Azure Fundamentals - AZ-900
• FinOps Certified Practitioner
• Docker Certified Associate

Languages

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• French: Native
• English: Fluent

Interests

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• Running & trail
• Crossfit
• Cooking
• Travelling