About Damien
French
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English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Fluent
Polish
Conversational
Experience
- Frog CloudChief Technology OfficerJanuary 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)Paris, France• Leading the co-creation of Frog Cloud's technical landscape, vision, roadmap, best practices and guidelines.• CTO as a Service: Helping customers designing, building, running, optimizing, or maintaining their cloud.• Designing and building our internal tools and our upcoming SaaS/PaaS products.• Developing Cloud Native Software and Infrastructure solutions centered around Kubernetes.• Avoiding vendor-lock and adopting a Cloud Neutral approach (!== Cloud Agnostic).• Using battle-tested OSS solutions to replace costly SaaS products.• Managing and training our Kubernetes and Software Engineering consultants.• Constantly improving our engineering environment by integrating OSS solutions or building custom software.• Stack: k8s, NodeJS, Python, Go, Rust, ecosystem of 100+ OSS or CNCF tools.
- Neo9Head of Platform EngineeringJune 2020 - January 2024 (3 years and 7 months)Paris, France• Participating in 15+ projects to oversee software delivery, infrastructure and operations.• Hands-on role, building customer platforms, internal tools and responding to incidents with my teams.• Building and managing 3 Platform Engineering Teams in Paris, Lyon and Madrid.• Promoting DevOps, SecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, from dev to prod, on 15+ projects (~100 developers).• Holding internal meetups and workshops to raise awareness, and transmit knowledge across teams.• Supervising 8000+ deployments, 20+ k8s clusters. From dev to prod serving millions of requests daily.• Participating to RFPs, designing the infrastructure and operations of customer Platforms.• Monitoring my teams and their KPIs to provide them better training, tackle pain points and drive change.• Standardizing and industrializing operations across all internal and customer projects.• R&D to solve long term challenges by designing innovative platform solutions, using OSS and internal tools.• Optimizing performance and cost of operations. On some platforms reduced hosting cost up to 75%.• International environment, with different challenges and technical stacks depending on the project.• Stack: GCP, AWS, On-Premise, k8s, NodeJS, Python, Java, Go, Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane, Grafana, Promtheus, ElasticSearch, Kibana, RabbitMQ, Sentry, DynaTrace, Datadog, and many project dependent techs.
- Frog JumpCTO & Cloud ArchitectJune 2018 - June 2020 (2 years)Paris, France• Designing a Cloud Platform based on a self-managed k8s built using IaC and public cloud infrastructure.• Building a Cloud Native, distributed, autoscaling Web Scraping Platform running hundreds of workers, ingesting a volume of 500.000 to 1.500.000 webpages per hour.• Building a BI Platform to aggregate, process, enrich, explore data and visualize it withcreate dashboards.• Developing a web app with a browser plugin and a mobile version to provide recruiters with automation tools.• Scraping profiles from different sources (e.g: LinkedIn, github), and enriching data by a ML model.• Stack: GCP, Terraform, k8s, Helm, python, NodeJS, ES6, ReactJS, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kafka, RabbitMQ
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Education
- License, PsychologyUniversité Paris Cité2013
- Masters, ITEcole Multimédia2015