Career Profile

I am passionate about how infrastructure and open source software mix together. I am currently building the operating system of the cloud at Amazon Linux, focusing on improving its security.

Experiences

Systems Development Engineer

January 2021 - now
Amazon, Paris

Security of Amazon Linux.

  • Build services to track security advisories impacting Amazon Linux.
  • Evaluate security advisories potentially impacting Amazon Linux.
  • Enhance Amazon Linux security posture.

DevOps Engineer

June 2020 - December 2020
Scaleway, Paris

Building and running Scaleway managed databases cloud services

  • Build and maintain managed databases backend services
  • Add features and fix Scaleway RDB Terraform driver

Systems Development Engineer

February 2019 - May 2020
Amazon, Seattle and France

Building the Amazon Linux Operating System.

  • Maintain Amazon Linux RPM packages.
  • Backport security patches and bug fixes.
  • Build CI testing automation.
  • Build a service to process CVE data and send security alerts.

Systems Development Engineer

August 2018 - February 2019
Amazon, Seattle

Running Alexa Video platform services.

  • Manage AWS resource capacity to meet traffic needs and optimize costs.
  • Manage and improve monitoring configuration.
  • Build operational tooling.

Systems Development Engineer

July 2017 - July 2018
Amazon, Seattle

Running Alexa speech recognition services powering AWS Lex.

  • Built live log search tooling to support operations.
  • Migrating engine services to run natively on AWS.

Systems Development Engineer

October 2015 - July 2017
Amazon, Seattle

Operating AWS RDS, the largest managed relational database service in the world.

  • Built canary monitoring solution and monitoring configuration automation.
  • Migrated public front-end.
  • Built new AWS regions.

Systems Engineer

June 2013 - October 2015
Amazon, Dublin

Operations and automation of a very large scale cloud relational database services.

  • Resolution of high severity issues.
  • Handling of customer escalations.
  • Developement of tooling.

Monitoring Consultant

April 2011 - May 2013
Somone, Paris area

Technical assistance to the monitoring operations team for the French Ministry of Interior.

  • Platform installation and operations documentation
  • Proposed and created an automated configuration tool.
  • Skills transfer to operating team.
  • Platform optimization.

Monitoring Consultant

January 2011 - April 2011
Somone, Paris area

Implement a new monitoring solution based on Nagios and Centreon for the French Ministry of Interior.

  • Development and validation of Nagios plugins.
  • Monitoring indicators validation and documentation.
  • Monitoring agent packaging.

Intern

March 2010 - August 2010
Somone, Paris area

Realization of a solution measuring monitoring impact on Nagios monitored devices, and displaying it into a dedicated web interface.

Intern

September - October 2008
ESIEE, Paris area

CompanionAble Telemedecine European research project.

  • Development with Horde framework of a software stack to integrate cognitive exercises into a web application.
  • Co-publication and presentation of an article at CISSE 2008 conference, entitled "Telemedicine Platform - Enhanced Visiophony Solution to Operate a Robot-Companion".

Projects

www.ezvan.fr - For personal and family usage, installation, configuration and operation of web, mail and messaging services.
prxi.net - Proximity messaging service.
localgreentips.com - Share green tips to local communities

Skills & Proficiency

Linux systems

Python

AWS

Distributed systems

Rust

Database administration

Machine learning