Experience
AI Training & Personal Projects
- EPFL Applied Data Science: Advanced training in Machine Learning and data science methods
- Polymage: Built a Python AI agent library for batch multimedia processing (polymage.org)
- Currently deepening my understanding of LLMs, generative models, and multi-agent frameworks through hands-on projects
Senior SysAdmin
RTS (Swiss Broadcasting) -- Infrastructure Team
One-year contract reinforcing the RTS infrastructure team.
- Migrated Ansible Tower (AWX) to Kubernetes: Deployed an RKE2 cluster on RHEL/VMware and migrated AWX onto it
- Linux Server Administration: Provisioning, hardening, and managing RHEL servers on VMware with Ansible
- Automation & CI/CD: Restructured the Ansible project and set up GitLab CI pipelines for quality and security checks
- Monitoring: Configured Checkmk for infrastructure supervision
Senior DevOps
EPFL -- Human Brain Project
I was the sole person managing the entire platform – about 400 VMs and 20+ applications across multiple cloud providers.
- Multi-Datacenter Cloud Infrastructure: Designed and deployed OpenStack across 4 European datacenters (CSCS, Juelich, CINECA, BSC)
- PaaS for Project Partners: Installed OpenShift clusters with GitLab and Docker registry so teams could deploy their own applications
- Full Platform Ownership: Infrastructure design, application deployment, monitoring – the whole thing
Production Manager
Car & Boat Media (Axel Springer)
I managed all global infrastructure operations – compute, virtualization, storage, network, security, identities – across a hybrid on-premise and cloud environment. Also managed an internal team and external providers.
- Internal Platform Renovation: Managed VMware infrastructure, storage, backups, and a disaster recovery site (VMware, Veeam, NetApp)
- AWS Web Platform Industrialization: Brought in Packer, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitLab, and CodeDeploy to standardize deployments
- Developer Support: Set up internal GitLab and an OpenStack cloud for developers. Helped teams write their own GitLab CI pipelines
- Security: Defined the PSSI framework (aligned with ISO 27001), reorganized and segmented the network, deployed a WAF (Imperva), managed AWS security posture
IT Operations Specialist
Dassault Systemes
Web infrastructure expert helping Dassault Systemes teams migrate applications to Outscale cloud.
- Cloud Migration: Defined the hybrid cloud architecture with Outscale and built automated build and deployment tooling with Ansible
- e-distrib Platform: Designed and built the product download platform, integrated with PeopleSoft commercial SI
Production Manager
CoachClub.com
Early-stage sports coaching startup. I handled everything production.
- IT Infrastructure Build: Set up the entire IT infrastructure from nothing – network, internal tools, dev environments, web platform
- Production Management: Managed the payment backoffice (RBS), handled technical relationships with our hosting provider (Interoute) and CDN operators (Akamai, Level3)
Technical Lead
Goomradio.com
Technical lead for Goomradio.com, a French online radio aggregator and streaming platform.
- Web Platform Build: Architected and built the web and streaming platform in under 3 months on Solaris/Java
- Development Support: Supported the development team with infrastructure and deployment
Architecture Lead
Voyages-SNCF.com
Responsible for the Technical Architecture division.
- Production Roadmap: Defined platform architecture evolution, storage and intermediate environment virtualization
- Industrialization & QoS: Industrialized deployment processes, implemented production indicators, improved deployment methods (hot deployment)
Technical Architect
SFR SI -- Direction de l'urbanisation
IT Architecture and planning department.
- IT Planning: Participated in design reviews, maintained the SFR-SI Technical Reference. Audits, studies, consulting, project support
- Web Portals & Platforms: Redesigned the SFR.fr portal, e-commerce platform, distributor portals, self-care, intranet, SSO
- Achieres Datacenter Architecture: Network and security architecture, DNS naming rules, application migration scenarios, disaster recovery plan
- NSI (New Information System): SOA architecture, self-care Web, Wap, SVI
Systems & Networks Engineer
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
One of the earliest web infrastructure roles in France. The internet was new and mostly undefined territory.
- Internet Infrastructure: Defined and deployed INA’s internet infrastructure – secured the network, configured and administered every server (Firewall, DNS, Mail, News, FTP, Web, Proxy)
- mediaport.net: Built one of the first French websites
- Anim2000 Project (1993-1995): Designed and built the database layer (SGBD Versant) for this European research project on animated drawing production