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Alex EsparonAE

Alex Esparon

DSI, CTO, Cloud Architect, Admin.sys., Devops, SRE

€850/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Alex

DSI and CTO for over 10 years
University teacher (6 years)
Entrepreneur (Creative Valley, SerenIT, Wirefox)
Graduated with a Master's degree from Epitech Paris and a Master's degree in CTO/CIO from Stockholm University
Digital native

Support, design, and implementation of strategies, teams, and finances, infrastructures, processes, etc.; evolutions, optimizations, quality management, automation, MCO, SRE, reliability, continuous improvements; creation and implementation of BCP, PSSI, GDPR management, etc.; security certifications (ISO 27001), management of tenders and audits for large groups; project management: needs identification, specifications, benchmarks, management, service provider management; consulting, training, and team management; reporting, budget management, ERP, CRM, EDM, etc.
Information System Design (architectures, SRE, DevOps, processes (change management, etc.), server rooms (entirety), high-traffic hosting (cloud, hybrid, on-premise), websites, networks, access control, video surveillance, alarms, forensics, monitoring, incident response, crisis management
AWS (ECS, Cloudfront, Route53, RDS, Elasticache, CodeDeploy, EC2, VPC, VPG, IAM, S3, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, ELB, Cloudwatch, DMS, ...), GCP, Azure, Heroku, Openstack, loadbalancing, DNS, VLAN, VPNs, DHCP, PXE, firewalls, routing, physical installations, wifi clusters (Wireshark, Pfsense, Unifi, HP, Cisco, iptables...), IS audit, monitoring, SANs, storage and archiving...
Software factories, Git, Github, Circleci, Bitbucket pipelines, Docker, Docker compose, AWS ECS, Jenkins, Rundeck, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Sidekiq...
Nginx, Apache, Varnish, Memcached, HAProxy, Mysql, Postgres, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra
Newrelic, Datadog, Graylog, Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios, rsyslog, Suricata
LDAP, Active Directory, ZFS, OpenSSH, Exchange, Sharepoint, DRBL, Veeam, Zimbra...
C, C++, Python, Shell script, PHP, HTML/CSS, NodeJS
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Basic

  • Swedish

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Freelance
    Freelance CIO / CTO / DevOps / SRE Consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    February 2018 - Today (8 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    Consulting in strategy, management, project ownership, owner support, and development management.
    Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (Corporate CIO advisor - Cloud and IT group governance, infrastructure hybridization, project and team management, major migration management, solution architect, cost control), Midgard (CIO - Creation of an AI solution to detect forest fires, national deployment with French firefighters - Private cloud creation, edge computing, GPU clusters), Creative-Valley (CTO - Management of CTOs, definition of strategies and budgets, design and management of offerings and business units, CTO consulting for startups, opening of 8 incubators, fundraising support), ReachFive (CIO - International development of the company, GDPR, infrastructure as code, multi-cloud migrations AWS, GCP, Alibaba, Azure, large group security audits, business development and fundraising), OnePark (CIO & DevOps - Redesign and production deployment of IoT infrastructure (access control), Heroku to AWS + Docker architecture and migration, continuous integration and continuous deployment migration, cost control, tech advisory), World Gaming Federation, Wirefox, ...
    SAAS Amazon Web Services Google cloud Elasticsearch ISO 27001 Docker Openstack VPN Business Strategy Project Management Budget Management MOE MOA Information System Owner Support
  • MidGard
    Chief Information Officer
    PUBLIC SAFETY
    March 2023 - February 2024 (11 months)
    Paris, France
    Creation and national deployment of an AI and drone-based solution for automatic detection of forest fire outbreaks. Actively used by firefighters for monitoring French regions. Support for SDIS CIOs, creation of custom on-premise computing clusters specialized in AI and video, design of resilient edge computing architectures, creation and management of a dedicated sovereign private cloud, development, hardening, and industrialization of the solution.
    artificial intelligence GPU drone surveillance camera Nvidia Edge Computing Data Sovereignty
  • Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
    Corporate Cloud CIO
    ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
    September 2019 - March 2023 (3 years and 6 months)
    Paris, France
    Governance and management of the group's cloud. Amazon, Google Cloud, and Azure. Service provider management, design and implementation of major migrations (monitoring, CDN, partners, SSL certificates, SSO, continuous integration, governance, serverless, containerization, lift and shift, big data projects...), infrastructure hybridization, project management, solution architect, domain name and certificate management (+2000), cost control.
    Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Google cloud Information System Architecture Cost Reduction Continuous Integration SSO Kubernetes Talend

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Education

  • Expert in Information Technology
    Epitech
    2014
    Epitech Paris Master promotion 2014
  • Stockholm University – GIT Global IT Management
    Stockholm University DSV
    2013
    Computer Security and Forensics, Entrepreneurship and IT Management Cursus DSI dispensé par Dr Lazar Rusu et Dr Jerry Luftman, ancien CIO d’IBM

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