Frederic Alix

lempire

Site Reliability Engineer

Pancasat

Cloud and infra expert

École 404

Formateur

Neuva

yourITcity

Design and dev backend prototype (nodejs and after GoLang)
Microservices oriented
Tools: HashiCorp Packer, Terraform and Nomad.
I used FreeBSD and GNU/Linux as OS
Cloud providers: OVH Public Cloud (OpenStack) and GCP (GKE)
Infra automation with Terraform / OVH CDS and StackStorm.
Cfg mgmt tool: Rudder

Cozy Cloud

Full Telecommuting
Deploy and admin OpenStack Swift cluster object storage
Deploy and admin CouchDB cluster
Automate and admin dev, int, stg and prod env
Technologies used:
HAproxy
CouchDB
LXC
KVM
Ovh Public Cloud (OpenStack)
SaltStack
MongoDB
Jenkins
Rundeck
OpenStack
GitLab

DevOps Engineer

Deploy POC Drive Event Admin with RunDeck / StackStorm
Develop a CLI tool in Golang to admin OVH services with API
Administrate Mesos/Marathon/Docker infrastructure
Administrate GrayLog / ElasticSearch infrastructure

DevOps engineer

Test OpenStack Ubuntu and Mirantis installation
Deploy and configure Mirantis OpenStack on OpenCompute infra
Deploy Proxmox servers
Install and configure StackStorm to push event-driven automation
Deploy containers hosting platform with Rancher
Prepare to migrate KVM servers to Ubuntu LXD

Novost

Deploy Nginx/Php servers with Ansible
Deploy and configure FreeBSD & Debian GNU/Linux servers on Vultr
Cloud
Install backups servers unders FreeNAS
Install Icinga 2 monitoring services
Deploy Rundeck to automate administrations tasks

Chief Technology Officer

AVIWEST

Deploy Samba files server under FreeBSD in HA environment
Deploy and configure Ubuntu GNU/Linux servers
Deploy network infrastructure under PfSense and Ubiquiti
Install backups servers unders FreeNAS
Install Icinga 2 monitoring services
Manage dev team located in Ukraine
Deploy Rundeck to automate administrations tasks

Systems engineer

I fell into the computer pot when I was a 6-year-old kid. 
Since then, I've spent every minute discovering and learning new things. 
I have this profession in my blood, and I love to share my knowledge. 
Life is a beautiful adventure, and I will never stop loving this journey.

Sopra Steria

Observability and infrastructure specialist

Quickwit

* Developer (GO, Typescript) contributing to the grafana datasource plugin
* Developer (GO) contributing to Falco with the quickwit's output module
* Developer (GO, Typescript) contributing to Odigos with the quickwit's destination module
* Glasskube integration
* GKE (Kubernetes) and gitops configuration of quickwit
* Maintenance of the helmchart
* Some devrel content (blogpost, talk at conferences, etc)

Platform Engineer / Grafana (GO and TS) developer / Helm maintener

Comwork.io

Designing a DaaS (deployment as a service) platform : cloud.comwork.io. The main purpose is to accelerate the deployment providing a PaaS experience with a nice frontend GUI but also giving access to IaC gitops repositories automatically generated with ansible/jinja or helm templates you can update in order to trigger pipelines.

It's also supporting FaaS feature to deploy directly serverless functions in an agnostic way.

You'll find more details on our documentation : https://docs.cloud.comwork.io

And we got some demo on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@comworkio

Technologies : Python FastAPI, Pulumi, Go, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, NATs.

Compatibility : GCP, AWS, Scaleway, OVH, Cloudflare, private cloud using openstack. The platform is build using driver/adapter pattern so we can adapt to every type of infrastructure (each cloud platform providing an IaaS api can be handled if we develop a proper driver).

Cwcloud lead platform engineer

Founder, CEO of the French division since 2018 and CTO.

It was and still is an IT services company which help customers to develop, ship in production, scale in the cloud their public applications.

Leading the teams with the following technologies:

Backend dev : design and development of distributed web applications using Restful API or asynchronous worker (using Kafka, Pulsar, NATs, redis pubsub, etc), SQL and NoSQL or hyper distributed database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, etc). Programming languages : Java (Springboot, Vert.x, Quarkus, Micronaut), Python (Flask, FastAPI) and Go.

Frontend dev : React, Angular, Vue

SRE / Devops : public or private cloud provisioning using Terraform/Terragrunt on GCP, AWS, Scaleway or OVHCloud. Kubernetes gitops deployment using ArgoCD and Helm, classical compute templating and deployment using ansible, observability using Elasticstack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc) or Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Victoria Metrics.

GCP and serverless : GKE with knative, cloudrun, cloud function, etc (we also can handle the equivalent using AWS).

CEO and CTO

FAIRMAT

Technical architecture definition and development: Restful API with Python FastAPI & PostgreSQL, web & mobile GUI with Flutter.

SRE, cloud automation using terraform/terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning on GCP. CI/CD build and deployment on GCP cloudrun (knative managed service on GCP) using OCI containers.

Managing a development and SRE team based in Tunisia.

Architect & SRE consultant

DOCAPOSTE

Follow the deployment of new microservices using cwcloud (a Deployment as a Service solution based on OCI containers developed by comwork) on OVH public cloud.

Development of new RESTful microservices in the KYC business area ("know your customer", a.k.a online identity control) with Python Flask, MariaDB and redis. Gitlab-ci, helm (Kubernetes) and ansible role for deployments on different type of compute.

Managing a development and SRE team based in Tunisia.

SRE and cloud platform product owner

Shippeo

Management of new production environments on Google Cloud Platform (and Scaleway for dev environments) based on Kubernetes (GKE). Setting up gitops with github, TektonCD, ArgoCD and Harbor.

Installation of the technical bricks necessary for developers by following the gitops's rules (Elasticstack/ELK for example).

Infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt for Google cloud storage, cloud SQL and all other managed services of GCP and Elastic cloud. Also scripting mainly with Python and bash and making some restful API with python flask / fastapi.

SRE, Cloud & DevOps consultant

uprodit.com

Co-founder and CTO of the social network uprodit.com.

Technologies used: Java 8 / Spring / Thymleaf / JQuery / Bootstrap / Webservices REST with CXF, OpenFeign / PostgreSQL / Elasticsearch / Redis. Vert.x and CDI (HK2) for the Elasticsearch integration component.

Unit tests and integration tests with JUnit, AssertJ, Mockito, DbUnit, Spring test and vertx-unit.

Continuous delivery with Git, Gitlab/Gitlab-ci, Ansible, Docker.

Chief Technical Officer

VeggiePi

VeggiePI is a project that push aquaponic and hydroponic systems and other smart agriculture projects to the next level. Based on various IoT sensors and actuators, cloud native, bigdata and machine learning.

Rebuild and packaging of diverse componant such as Elasticsearch and Kibana for ARM32 using docker/OCI containers. Python and C development also packaged as docker images optimized for ARM microships and deployed in a gitops way using gitlab-ci.

I joined the French Post's Digital Hub project (a.k.a "Le Hub Numérique de La Poste") as technical leader and SRE/DevOps consultant within the Docaposte IOT division.

It's an universal platform for pairing IOT devices, getting a summary of the data reported by those devices on a dashboard and making them communicate with each other using configurable scenarios (pretty close to serverless functions) and services. This platform can be used both for companies with a business portal and restful APIs and for particular. Lots of public administrations and companies are using it for accelerate their development like a BaaS (backend as a service) and bring more value to their own services using the postman's tour and some devices.

Here's a non-exhaustive list of personal contributions to this project:
- Implementation of a reactive microservice architecture based on Docker, Kafka, Java, Vert.x and Hazelcast
- Implementation of dedicated monitoring instances based on Docker, Nginx, Letsencrypt, ElasticStack (Elasticsearch + Kibana) and Kafka
- Establishment of technical supervision based on collectd, Kafka, Elasticsearch and Grafana
- Synchronization of Elasticsearch clusters on two datacenters via Kafka
- CI / CD: Automation of feature delivery via gitlab-ci and docker pipelines with validation steps and tests using maven or npm or tox
- Automation of the deployment of our infrastructure with Terraform, Puppet, Ansible
- Implementation and maintenance of the exposure of our applications: reverse proxies (apache and nginx), load balencers (haproxy), api gateway (tyk), https certificates with letsencrypt
- Numerous backend features carried out within the features teams whether it is Restfull APIs based on Spring, Springboot or reactive microservices with Vert.x and Kafka and Cassandra, Redis and Elasticsearch as NoSQL databases
- Technical supervision of backend developer teams in Paris as well as in Tunis depending on the period

Technical leader and SRE/DevOps consultant

Developpez.com

Member of the admin team of the first IT french-speaker online community focused on development and new information technologies. Also a writter, you can see my tutorials here: https://ineumann.developpez.com

- From 2010 to 2012: moderator Linux section
- From 2012 to 2015: manager of the moderation team
- Since 2012 writer on Linux, Java, Application LifeCycle Management (design of IS databases, agile management & scrum)

Writter and moderation manager

IT engineer graduate from the CNAM's schools of Engineer of Paris (Specialty Information Systems). I'm currently working as CEO of comwork.io a new multi-cloud platform and API and SRE / DevOps / Cloud / Infrastructure / Observability specialist and OSS/CNCF contributor. Before, I was IT consultant in the skill center CSD of Paris at Capgemini Technology Services.

I have more than 12 years of experiences in the backend and microservices architectures area (using GO, Java, vert.x, Node and Python), reactive and asynchronous reliable systems (using redis, kafka and rabbitmq) and SRE/Cloud automation engineering with containers (docker & kubernetes), ci/cd (gitlab-ci, tekton, ArgoCD, jenkins), observability (elasticstack, grafana+prometheus), system administration on Linux. On Linux since 2000 and still loving making some shell scripts and system programming.

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