Youssoupha Sow

Solutions Architect @ Scaleway | European Cloud | Sovereign & High-Performance Architecture

I work at Scaleway, a European cloud provider committed to technological sovereignty, where I help our clients design high-performance, scalable cloud architectures aligned with their business objectives (costs, resilience, compliance, AI, data…).

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect, I am involved in:

Defining target architectures adapted to each use case (data, AI, web platform, SaaS, DevOps, etc.)

Technical pre-sales support (PoC, benchmark, migration, hybridization)

Strategic consulting on FinOps, sovereignty, and infrastructure modernization

I leverage the entire Scaleway ecosystem: Elastic Metal & Virtualized Instances, managed Kubernetes (Kapsule), object storage, serverless functions, ClickHouse, AI & GPU services, etc.

📍 I support clients in France and Europe, mainly in the retail, industry, SaaS, and public sectors.

Senior Cloud Architect | Public Cloud & IT Transformation

At PwC France, I supported large enterprise clients in their transformation towards public cloud, by designing cloud-native, secure, and scalable architectures.

My role within the Cloud Transformation team:

Scoping and design of architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP

Definition of multi-cloud patterns, landing zones, networking, IAM

Close collaboration with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams

Formalization of architecture documents (HLD/LLD) and participation in RFP responses

💼 Sectors addressed: banking, public sector, services.

Lead Data Engineer | Data Platforms & Hybrid Cloud

As Lead Data Engineer at Capgemini, I led large-scale data projects in a hybrid and sovereign cloud context, particularly for the media sector.

Main contributions:

Design and implementation of data ingestion & processing pipelines (batch & real-time)

Industrialization via Airflow, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes

Architecture choices around Data Lake, data warehouses, governance tools

Mentoring junior profiles and constant interaction with product teams

📺 Key mission: France Télévisions – DataCloud Platform for data ingestion, processing, and valorization.