Staff Engineer

Software engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Led critical projects at BNP Paribas and Societe Generale processing 14.5B daily events. Currently driving cloud migration of legacy systems at a worldwide company. Open-source contributor to Microsoft's TypeScript Handbook & Docker Documentation, among other things.

15+ years building scalable systems, leading DevOps transformations, and architecting mission-critical software at major banks and multinationals.

[ Tech Stack ]

JavaTypeScriptRustGoPythonShellKubernetesDockerTerraformJenkinsApache FlinkApache SparkKafkaRedisPostgreSQLMongoDBRabbitMQGrafanaInfluxDBVaultAWSGCPLinux / SELinuxSpringAngularNode.js

[ Certifications ]

CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)CNCF · 2024
HashiCorp Terraform AssociateHashiCorp · 2024
Spring Certified ProfessionalVMware · 2022
OCP Java SE 11Oracle · 2021
Big Data & Machine LearningGoogle Cloud · 2021
Redis Data StructuresRedis University · 2021
Redis SecurityRedis University · 2021
Redis StreamsRedis University · 2021
Redis for Java DevelopersRedis University · 2021

[ Experience ]

Lead DevOps

2024 — Present

TESSAN / Thales Group · Paris, France

Modernizing CI/CD pipelines and leading cloud migration of 30-year-old legacy software. Provisioning infrastructure with Terraform, containerizing workloads on Kubernetes, hardening Linux systems with SELinux.

KubernetesTerraformJenkinsDockerLinuxSELinux

Senior Engineer — GTS Alerting

2023 — 2024

Societe Generale · Paris, France

Re-engineered the Java/Flink-based microservice at the core of the private cloud monitoring platform processing 14.5B daily events. Fixed production crash bugs, designed reusable Flink data source abstractions, built Grafana dashboards over InfluxDB, and implemented GitOps-based CI/CD with Jenkins. Migrated secrets to Vault.

JavaApache FlinkKafkaGrafanaInfluxDBJenkinsVault

Senior Engineer — Data Pipeline

2023

BNP Paribas · Paris, France

Developed a Python-based microservice integrated with the in-house ticketing system. Contributed to large-scale data pipeline infrastructure supporting billions of daily events.

PythonJavaKafkaCI/CD

Full-Stack Engineer — IAM Platform

2018 — 2023

Accenture (Memority) · France

Built features across the multitenant Identity and Access Management platform — authentication, data model migration, frontend widgets, and backend API integrations. Worked with BPMN workflows, LDAP, SAML, OpenAM, and InWebo. Platform earned ISO 27001 certification and "Les Cas d'Or" 2019 IoT security award.

JavaSpringAngularDockerPostgreSQLMongoDBRabbitMQJenkinsFlyway

Full-Stack Developer

2017 — 2018

Startup (GCP-based) · Israel

Designed and built microservices with Express, Redis, Swagger, and Google Cloud Datastore. Produced integration specs and unit test plans using Jest, Jasmine, and Mocha.

Node.jsExpressRedisGCP DatastoreSwagger

IT Lead

2015 — 2017

Integrated Poultry Group · Cameroon

Led the IT department of a young integrated poultry group. Supervised staff, budgets, and systems. Built the company website (WordPress, Google Analytics) and an intranet HR tool (AngularJS, MySQL, Express).

AngularJSNode.jsMySQLWordPress

Software Engineering Intern

2013

BNP Paribas · Paris, France

Developed a web tool to assist HR with the employee onboarding process using AngularJS, Java, Spring Framework, and Twitter Bootstrap.

JavaSpringAngularJSBootstrap

[ Projects ]

[ Contributions ]

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TypeScript HandbookMicrosoft · since 2018
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Hope Day CameroonCo-founder · since 2021

Education charity supporting orphans and underprivileged children

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MentoringIndependent · since 2020

Mentoring people into the software development industry

[ Connect ]

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