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Christophe Le RetCL

Christophe Le Ret

Solution Architect, Digital Transition Manager

€750/day
Belfort, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Christophe

I am a solutions architect with over 30 years of experience in IT, including 15 years in strategic roles at GE, Microsoft, and most recently at Emotors. I work with industrial and technology companies to design scalable architectures, migrate to cloud environments, and integrate industrial data (IIoT) into data analytics platforms.

I rely on solid expertise in DevSecOps, API integration, and industrial integrations (MQTT, Modbus, OPC UA), edge computing, and migration to AWS or Azure.

My strengths:

Technical Leadership & Digital Change Management

Senior Cloud Architect (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, EKS)

Industrial Data Integration (IIoT, Edge, API, ETL)

DevSecOps & CI/CD Automation

Design of Secure & Scalable Platforms

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Czech

    Basic

  • German

    Basic

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Belfort (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 10km), Paris (up to 10km), Vannes (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km)

Experience

  • eMotors
    Senior Solution Architect
    February 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)
    Carrières-sous-Poissy, France
    Cloud Integration and IIoT Solution Architect to support an increasing number of large and complex programs within Emotors.
    - Identify and create solutions within the Intelligent Industry (Industry 4.0) banner to deliver improvements in productivity, leadtime, information, IoT technologies, asset management etc.
    - Contribute to a clear Architectural Vision, supporting Capability roadmaps, for development of Solutions in the short, medium and long term
    - Provide internal consultation and Integration Systems expertise to support projects Responsible for conducting research on existing systems and devising solutions that work within those systems.
    Microsoft Azure Azure DevOps ETL Python API
  • GE Renewable Energy
    IT Development and Architecture Director - Digital transformation & Cloud IIoT Edge Computing
    June 2021 - June 2024 (3 years)
    Grenoble, France
    IoT Edge Computing Cloud Gateway Architecture:
    • Designed an innovative IoT Edge computing Cloud gateway architecture connecting assets and machines in hydropower plants and hydro analytics systems to GE cloud services.
    • Led a team in building gateways capable of industrial protocol translation (MQTT, Modbus, OPC UA…) and data analytics (Python), resulting in the extraction of valuable business insights. Cloud Applications Migration to AWS:
    • Successfully architected the migration of applications from GE Predix to the AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
    • Implemented and executed the migration strategy while harnessing AWS services, including EKS, ECR, CloudWatch, RDS, and OpenSearch. DevSecOps Implementation:
    • Spearheaded the adoption of DevOps practices with Jenkins to optimize software development processes.
    • Achieved faster and secured software delivery by streamlining the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized Java and Python applications on Kubernetes within the AWS environment.
  • GE Digital
    Sr Digital APM & Analytics Solution Architect
    June 2019 - May 2021 (1 year and 11 months)
    Massy, France

    • Played a key role in enhancing GE's Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions, focusing on optimizing asset performance and operational efficiency for equipment, plants, and fleets.
    • Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams, including the APM product engineering team, and contributed to the development of Python tools, driving project success.

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Education

  • Management Information for Marketing & Sales, Marketing
    CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MARKETING (UK)
    1998
    Management Information for Marketing & Sales, Marketing
  • Business Management and Finance BTS, Enterprise Management and Finance
    ENC Groupe ENACOM ENSEC ENCIA ( ECOLES NANTAISES DE COMMERCE )
    1986
    BTS Gestion des Entreprises, Entreprise Management and Finance

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