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My name is Michaël, your Cloud, DevOps, and Platform Engineering expert. Automation, performance, scalability, security, observability, cost control, and continuous improvement are my main daily focuses. Naturally curious, I actively keep up with tomorrow's technologies.
My expertise is structured around several areas:
DevOps— particularly CI/CD automation, with solid experience in GitLab CI and Jenkins. Continuous delivery is the foundation!
Cloud— specializing in containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes (CKAD and CKA certified), I primarily work on AWS and occasionally on GCP.
Web/Mobile Frontend Development— JAMStack and Serverless architectures for unparalleled performance and time-to-market.
Artificial Intelligence— integrating LLMs into robust and secure architectures, developing and deploying agents.
This technical versatility, acquired through various projects, allows me to communicate easily with different teams (Dev, Ops, Test, etc.).
My current technical environment includes:
- **Systems & Containers**: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes
- **CI/CD**: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub
- **Artificial Intelligence**: Agents, MCP, Claude, Gemini, GPT, CrewAI, LangChain, AutoGen
- **Web/Mobile**: React, Next.js, Android, Firebase
- **Programming**: JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Python, PHP, Java
- **Databases**: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firestore (NoSQL), SQL Server
- **Cloud**: AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Scaleway
- **JAMStack**: Gatsby, Netlify, Jekyll
- **Methodologies**: Agile Scrum, Kanban
My motto: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius
English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 30km), Paris (up to 0km), Genève (up to 10km), Lausanne (up to 10km)
Experience
- Pictet Asset ManagementCloud Platform EngineerBANKING AND INSURANCEJune 2024 - May 2026 (1 year and 11 months)Geneva, SwitzerlandAs a Cloud DevOps & Platform Engineer, I built and operated secure cloud-native platforms and enabled AI solutions for business teams. Focused on AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, and automation with Terraform — driving secure, scalable, and cost-optimized environments with products like MongoDB Atlas, Coder, AWS Bedrock, Cilium, and LiteLLM.
- Designed and deployed highly scalable and secure platforms for DevOps & business teams on Kubernetes (EKS, Karpenter, Cilium) with Terraform on AWS (VPC, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, KMS)
- Operated the PAM EUC (End-User Computing) platform — ready-to-use private development environments and self-service application hosting for developers and data scientists (Coder)
- Automated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) for infrastructure delivery, application deployments, backup/restore, and platform upgrades
- Managed the lifecycle of platform components — regular updates, security patches, and release tracking
Implemented the organization's security best practices and compliance measures on cloud environments- Enabled AI for business teams by integrating AWS Bedrock & Claude via an AI Gateway (LiteLLM), and developed LLM/agentic automation to modernize workflows based on SOPs
- Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the team in selecting the new observability platform — evaluating OpenSearch, Grafana, Datadog, and Dynatrace
- Groupe SEBCloud DevOps SpecialistMarch 2023 - April 2024 (1 year and 1 month)Lyon, FranceAs a DevOps Specialist, I actively participated during 2023 to the migration of theDCP (Digital Cooking Platform) for Group SEB. The goal was to move from EC2instances to Kubernetes (EKS) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible. We alsosuccessfully implemented a new integration platform on Kubernetes to provideteams with multiple Jenkins instances.
- Implemented a Kubernetes integration platform with multiple Jenkins instances
- Created Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for observability
- Optimized Kubernetes resources to improve performance and reduce costs
- Implemented a GitOps workflow with ArgoCD and deployed antivirus in a containerized environment
- Provide support to various teams, including Dev and Test, sharing DevOps and Kubernetes best practices
- Create or migrate Jenkins jobs and setup GitHub actions for CI/CD automation
- Use IaC with Ansible and Terraform to automate infrastructure components deployment
- Groupe SNCFDevOps EngineerTRANSPORTATIONDecember 2021 - February 2023 (1 year and 2 months)Lyon, FranceOn assignment for SNCF's IT department as a DevOps Engineer, I worked on infrastructure setup, automation, configuration, and monitoring. Within an #Ops squad, I improved the quality, reliability, and resilience of a large-scale hybrid AWS & on-premises project involving multiple teams.
- Hybrid AWS + on-premises Kubernetes Cloud Orchestration for a large-scale project
- Developed Helm charts and automated deployments via Jenkins and Ansible, and set up monitoring (Datadog)
anomalies and write technical documentation- Collaborated with development and testing teams to resolve
- Load, high availability, and resilience analysis with proposals
- Implemented cross-functional platform components (Traefik, HiveMQ, Nginx)
- Automated infrastructure components (IAM, Security Groups, Certificates)
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Education
- Computer Science and Networks EngineerTELECOM SAINT-ETIENNE
Certifications
- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperThe Linux Foundation
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes AdministratorThe Linux Foundation