Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Senior infrastructure and virtualization architect with over 20 years of experience supporting complex IT environments.

I assist companies in evaluating, designing, and modernizing their infrastructures, with a strong focus on virtualization platforms, availability, resilience, and cost optimization.

I undertake targeted and operational missions: infrastructure audits, architecture reviews, technical decision support, and transformation projects, particularly around modernizing virtualization stacks and VMware platform evolution projects, including, where relevant, the study of alternative solutions like Proxmox.

Pragmatic and results-oriented approach: clear scope, concrete actions, and usable deliverables.

Interventions primarily remote, with the possibility of occasional on-site presence if necessary.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Turkish
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

VMware
Senior Solutions Architect – Virtualization & Hybrid Cloud
June 2018 - March 2025 (6 years and 9 months)
Paris, France
As a Solutions Engineer at VMware, I assisted numerous companies in designing, deploying, and optimizing their virtualized architectures and hybrid cloud environments.

My role covered the entire technical cycle:
Analysis of needs and design of VMware architectures (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize)
Deployment, migration, and optimization of environments to VMware Cloud or new infrastructure versions
Automation, performance, and security of critical environments
Strategic consulting on cost rationalization and IT architecture modernization
Support and skills transfer to client teams (technical workshops, PoCs, documentation)

This experience gave me a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of virtualized environments, which I now leverage to help companies modernize, rationalize, or diversify their infrastructures through open, high-performance, and sovereign solutions (Proxmox, XCP-ng).
VMware vSphere / vSAN / NSX Architecture Hybrid Cloud & VMware Cloud Migration Infrastructure Automation and Optimization Security and High Availability IT Modernization Consulting
Aidata
Co-founder & Pre-sales Consultant Infrastructure
April 2015 - May 2018 (3 years and 1 month)
Paris, France
I co-founded AIDATA to help SMEs design, implement, and evolve their virtualized and high-performance IT infrastructures.

My role combined technical pre-sales, architecture, and on-site integration:

Design and deployment of Hyper-V, VMware, and SAN/NAS infrastructures
Conducting PoCs, technical demonstrations, and architecture sizing
Automation and optimization of performance and resilience
Pre-sales support and assistance to sales teams
Business continuity and backup consulting

This experience allowed me to strengthen my expertise in virtualization and infrastructure integration, while refining a technical, agile, and results-oriented approach tailored to the mid-market's needs.
Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware Virtualization IT Infrastructure Architecture and Integration Technical Pre-sales and PoC IT Performance and Resilience Optimization Backup and Business Continuity
SCC France
Infrastructure & Virtualization Architect – Public Sector
January 2010 - March 2015 (5 years and 2 months)
Paris, France
Responsible for the design and deployment of complete IT architectures for large public organizations within the framework of UGAP tenders, I was involved in the entire technical cycle—from infrastructure design to solution validation, in coordination with sales teams, manufacturers, and partner publishers.

I contributed to numerous strategic projects for leading public sector institutions, including those in the ministerial, financial, and audiovisual fields, such as the Ministry of the Interior, the Banque de France, France Télévisions, and the Presidency of the Republic.

Design of server, storage, network, and backup architectures

Writing technical responses to tenders (RFP/RFI) and UGAP dossiers

Sizing and validation of solutions with manufacturers and publishers

Technical project monitoring and coordination between pre-sales and delivery teams

Consulting on modernization, standardization, and sustainability of IT infrastructures

This experience allowed me to master the technical, financial, and regulatory challenges of sensitive public sector environments, and to strengthen my expertise in designing critical and highly secure infrastructures.
IT Infrastructure Architecture and Virtualization Technical Pre-sales and Tender Response Writing Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networks Design and Integration of Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions IT Project Management in the Public Sector