Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

KAFKA x3 Certified ARCHITECT & DEVOPS | Java/springboot µ-services Expert | SaaS Helper

I support your teams in designing, developing, and optimizing event-driven Java/Spring Boot & Kafka architectures. Specialist in microservices, their automation, and monitoring, I secure your real-time data flows, improve performance and observability, and handle audits, redesigns, Kafka Connect integration, and coaching.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Arabic
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Stime – Groupement Les Mousquetaires
Kafka Architect/DevOps
March 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)
92320 Châtillon, France
• Administer and audit Kafka clusters, Schema Registry & +4k Kafka Connect Clusters
• Implementing SASL security (authentication & authorizations / ACLs)
• Managing Schemas compatibilities and evolutions
• Good practices on topics, groups and Acls management/naming
• CI/CD & automation with Helm, Ansible, GitLab CI
• Monitoring with Prometheus, Alert-manager, Dynatrace, GRAFANA
• DRP strategy for stretch clusters and for component on K8S too (affinities)
• Rolling Upgrades on all components (Brokers, Zookeepers, Kafka Connect & Schema Registry)
• Tuning Kafka Connectors & Kafka Streams
• Developing custom SMT, custom connectors and leading/helping on Kafka Streams design and development
• L3/L2 support
• Solace: N3 support (Queues/topics, bridges, users, ACLs, Kafka connectors…)
Kubernetes Apache Kafka Java Ansible Helm
Amadeus
Kafka Expert / DevOps
February 2022 - March 2023 (1 year and 1 month)
Nice, France
• Managed 100s of Kafka clusters via Strimzi (deployment-set , pod-set)
• Secured environments with TLS/OAUTH (and Kerberos for legacy clusters) + ACLs
• Azure App/Ouath
• On-call L2/L3 support for Kafka Connect & Streams
• Helm for strimzi on cloud Openshift (using bitbucket and ArgoCD for automation)
• Jenkins / Bitbucket
• Ansible for Legacy Kafka Clusters on Prem
• Documenting and testing the Zookeepr to Kraft migration steps
• MM2 to centralizing Data
• Cruise Control for re-balancing Custers Data/Partitions
Apache Kafka Helm Ansible Argo CD Argos
Stime
Data Streaming Expert (Kafka)
October 2020 - January 2022 (1 year and 3 months)
92320 Châtillon, France
• Modeling data flows
• Managing Schema evolutions (AVRO)
• Kafka Connect (Couchbase, JDBC, REST, Solace, Mirroring...), SMT
• Developing & Tuning Kafka Streams (Joins, KTables, RocksDB…)
• CI/CD & automation with Helm, GitLab CI Kustomize/Helm
• Perf tests (kafka streams, storage types for stateful kafka-streams, kafka connectors, Couchbase)
• Throttling
Apache Kafka Kubernetes Spring boot Couchbase Solace