Rakuten France · France
January 2024 – Present
Technical Leadership · Infrastructure Strategy · Kubernetes · Cloud & Security · Platform Engineering
- ◆ Defined the objectives and technical roadmap of the Ops team (8 engineers), setting infrastructure strategy and priorities.
- ✓ Achieved 3x higher deployment velocity through environment standardization and automated provisioning, which strengthened operational reliability and reduced time spent on troubleshooting.
- ✓ Led the move from VMware to the open-source Proxmox VE, eliminating €72K/year in licensing fees and removing vendor lock-in after Broadcom’s licensing changes.
- ✓ Led the integration platform migration to a new private cloud provider, saving €192K/year.
- ✓ Led the migration of configuration management from SaltStack to Ansible and introduced a private Terraform registry, adopting industry-standard open-source tools that widened the talent pool, sped up onboarding, and strengthened Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- ✓ Consolidated edge services from 3 vendors onto Cloudflare at no additional cost, simplifying operations and strengthening security.
- ◆ Designed and configured Cloudflare rate-limiting rules to control and protect web service traffic.
- ◆ Co-designed a Golden Path to standardize engineering practices and simplify development and deployment workflows.
- ◆ Designed Golden Images to standardize system configurations and ensure consistent, reproducible infrastructure provisioning.
- ◆ Designed a unified self-service portal for technical teams, centralizing account creation and access to CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and other engineering platforms.
Rakuten France · France
February 2021 – January 2024
Infrastructure & Production · Kubernetes · GCP · Infrastructure as Code · High Availability
- ◆ Continuously improved the reliability, performance, and resilience of production infrastructure.
- ◆ Collaborated with development and operations teams to improve operational practices, automation, and production deployment quality.
- ◆ Designed and optimized reverse proxy and load-balancing architectures to ensure high availability.
- ◆ Implemented zero-downtime deployment strategies to minimize service interruptions during production releases.
- ◆ Analyzed and optimized network traffic flows to reduce inter-site traffic in production environments.
- ◆ Designed technical solutions and deployed applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- ◆ Deployed, managed, and maintained Kubernetes clusters, including application deployments using Helm charts.
- ◆ Supported development teams in migrating containerized applications from Docker to Kubernetes.
- ◆ Advised and supported Release Managers ahead of production deployments, focusing on technical prerequisites, operational risks, and deployment reliability.
- ◆ Maintained and upgraded Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools, particularly Terraform and SaltStack, while promoting automation best practices.
Weborama · Levallois-Perret, France
December 2017 – February 2021
Data Management Platform (DMP) · R&D · Hybrid Cloud & On-Premises
- ◆ Designed and implemented a column-oriented storage solution for a high-availability, high-throughput service.
- ◆ Led front-end workload migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including deployment automation, acceptance testing, and monitoring.
- ◆ Supported Tech Leads with architecture decisions, Agile ticket management, and technical documentation.
- ◆ Owned SRE responsibilities for high-volume WCM data collection across GCP, Yandex, and datacenters.
- ◆ Migrated stateless daemons to Kubernetes.
- ◆ Participated in on-call rotations, troubleshooting, incident diagnosis, and resolution.
- ◆ Managed operational infrastructure, including hardware lifecycle, hardware alerting, maintenance contracts, and vendor relationships.
- ◆ Oversaw the SMDB operational scope.
OPEN · Levallois-Perret, France
June 2016 – December 2017
Client assignment: Weborama · DMP R&D
- ◆ Designed and implemented infrastructure improvements for high-throughput environments.
- ◆ Automated operational processes and developed acceptance test procedures.
- ◆ Anticipated infrastructure capacity and resource requirements.
- ◆ Supported development teams with deployments, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
- ◆ Redesigned on-premises infrastructure, including rack reorganization and implementation of an SMDB.
- ◆ Managed infrastructure obsolescence and lifecycle improvements.
Mobile Devices Ingenierie · Villejuif, France
November 2013 – June 2016
Cloud Operations & Production Engineering
- ◆ Managed cloud platforms and implemented server configuration management.
- ◆ Introduced monitoring, alerting, and service status-page solutions.
- ◆ Automated deployment processes and integrated software across multiple platforms.
- ◆ Planned and coordinated production releases and deployment phases.
- ◆ Maintained and evolved platforms through resource analysis, version management, and migration planning.
- ◆ Designed and implemented redundant architectures.
- ◆ Integrated OpenStack into the infrastructure.
- ◆ Provided production support, on-call incident response, troubleshooting, and resolution.
- ◆ Managed production budgets.
Mobile Devices Ingenierie · Villejuif, France
April 2012 – November 2013
- ◆ Administered Linux and Windows servers, workstations, user accounts, file shares, and printing services.
- ◆ Installed and configured servers, network switches, routers, firewalls, and DNS services.
- ◆ Managed user permissions, roaming profiles, and backup systems.
- ◆ Implemented a Debian package caching proxy.
- ◆ Administered the GLPI ticketing system and provided end-user support.
- ◆ Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on servers, workstations, and peripherals.
- ◆ Coordinated infrastructure projects, including service migrations, production deployments, workstation installation automation, Internet access migration, and centralized backup implementation.
Capitaldata · Montreuil-sous-Bois, France
September 2011 – February 2012
- ▸ Maintained and enhanced local and remote information systems.
- ▸ Implemented a high-availability, load-balanced architecture.
- ▸ Integrated Google’s Ad Exchange technology (DoubleClick).
H5 Audits · Saint-Ouen, France
April 2011 – September 2011
- ▸ Improved packet-processing performance of a network probe.
- ▸ Developed a network traffic generator.
