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Benjamin DufourBD

Benjamin Dufour

Supermalter

Azure Architect – Cloud, Data, AI & DevOps

€750/day
15 projects
Nantes, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Benjamin

Azure Platform & AI Architect


I help companies design, modernize, secure, and industrialize their Azure cloud platforms.

A strong expertise in distributed, real-time, and secure modern Azure platforms, with a background as a C#/.NET developer.

I intervene mainly on complex topics requiring:
  • Maintainability and scalability
  • Reliability of critical architectures
  • Reduction of Azure complexity and costs
  • Security of exchanges and identities
  • Industrialization of deployments / DevOps
  • Structure of modern Data - AI platforms

Main Expertise:
  • Azure PaaS & cloud-native architectures
  • Real-time Data Platform & analytics
  • Industrial IoT
  • Azure OpenAI & Generative AI platforms
  • Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
  • GitHub Actions & CI/CD
  • Secure zero-secret architectures
  • Cost/performance optimization (FinOps)

I combine a strongarchitectural capabilitywith ahands-onprofile capable of designing, developing, and industrializing real cloud solutions.
  • English

    Conversational

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Nantes (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Sofia Development
    Azure Data Platform Architect & DevOps
    MEDICAL
    September 2025 - February 2026 (5 months)
    Nantes, France
    • Transformation of an Azure Data Platform / Databricks to make it more reliable, secure, and industrialized
    • Transition to a clearer and more maintainable Hub & Spokes architecture
    • Gradual removal of technical secrets using Managed Identities and OIDC
    • Industrialization of infrastructure and application deployments
    • Reduction of manual operations through CI/CD automation
    Technical Environment: Azure Databricks • Terraform • GitHub Actions • OIDC • Managed Identities
    Terraform Azure Databricks Microsoft Azure Github Actions Platform Engineering
  • Clevinoo
    AI Platform Architect
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Nantes, France
    • Design of a global multilingual educational voice assistant platform
    • Azure cloud architecture designed for scalability, security, and cost control
    • Multi-region deployment France / Australia for latency optimization
    • Maximum security architecture without user passwords or emails
    • Selection of managed and serverless services adapted to actual load
    Technical Environment: Azure Container Apps • Azure AI Foundry • Azure Speech • Azure Functions •
    Cosmos DB
    Microsoft Azure Platform Engineering Github Actions OpenAI Cloud architect
  • SAFT
    Azure IoT Architect & DevOps
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    April 2023 - June 2025 (2 years and 2 months)
    Bordeaux, France
    • Modernization of an industrial IoT platform to improve real-time data exploitation
    • Migration to Azure Data Explorer
    • Terraform and GitHub Actions industrialization
    • Optimization of performance and Azure cost control
    Technical Environment: Azure Data Explorer • Terraform • Event Hubs • IoT Hub • Databricks
    Terraform Github Actions Platform Engineering Microsoft Azure Data Engineer

Reviews

5.0

Out of 2 ratings

AdrienA

Adrien

CORUM AM

Reviewed on 3/30/2020

As we approached the launch of an Azure-based tool, Benjamin provided invaluable assistance in setting up our CI/CD, integrating Azure components into our architecture, and documenting everything. Thank you for your expertise!
AdrienA

Adrien

CORUM AM

Reviewed on 11/4/2019

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