I’m a Senior Solution Architect with 17 years experience in designing and implementing Web and Cloud Native solutions for multinational compagnies in a wide variety of industries. I’ve worked with and lead teams accross the globe on international projects.

I can advise and define a Cloud Strategy (Move To Cloud, Landing Zones, App Modernization, Cloud Native Development, …).

I’m also a trainer on technologies like Azure, Terraform, and Cloud Native development.

I know stuff about Cloud computing, Software Development, Security, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Networking, and running things in Production.

Certifications

Experience @ Avanade (2007 - Present)

I have been working at Avanade France since 2007, doing maily Project Delivery for multinational companies, Solution Architecture, Presales activities, Training people, and of course… coding.

I’m also leading the Cloud Native Community of Practice for Software Engineering.

My latest relevant experiences are the following:

Thales Digital Factory (2017 - Present)

I’ve had multiple roles at the Thales Digital Factory over the years.

Platform Technical Lead (2021 - Present)

The goal of the Thales Digital Factory Platform is to provide Thales internal teams different type of secured Landing Zone to move their solutions to Azure in a secure and compliant way by design. It’s also to provide a set of service to accelerate their migration, so they can focus on their business.

I’ve been in charge of :

• Design and lead a team to implement those Azure Landing Zones
• Coordinate with Security Teams to translate security requirements into technical requirements in Azure
• Deliver services in Landing Zones such as :
  • Automatic Patch Management for Virtual Machines
  • Azure Policies for hardening Landing Zones
  • Certificate as a Service for automatic certificate provisionning and renewal
  • Reference Architectures and corresponding Terraform code
  • Azure Monitor and Defender for Endpoint to automate log retrieval and CVE scans
• Provide API for our services so that our clients can use them as Self Service.

We have been in charge of creating and operating more than 300 Azure Landing Zones so far, with a minimal team, thanks to our internal tooling that we built to automate and monitor most of recurring tasks.

Professional Services for the Thales Digital Factory Platform (2020 - 2021)

My role was to help various teams from Thales to move their solution from On Premises the Thales Digital Factory Platform on Azure. I’ve successfully helped ~20 teams by doing various tasks such as :

• Providing a Cloud Architecture for their solution
• Advisory on Cloud Native topics (Microservices, Containers, Security, etc…)
• Helping them with the migration of their solution to Azure
• Building CI / CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code for their solution
• Provide trainings on Azure for their teams

Technical Lead for Thales Private Cloud exploration (2019 - 2020)

During exploration phase, the goal was to validate technical choices to implement a Private Cloud for hosting sensitive workloads. My tasks consist of the following:

• Explore Azure Stacks services and maturity
• Design Landing Zones and Architecture patterns for hosting solutions on Azure Stack
• Explore security and compliance aspects of Azure Stack
• Provide additional PaaS capabilities to Azure Stack (Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
• Re host existing Thales solutions on Azure Stack to validate the stability of the platform

This ended up by validating the technical choices made around Azure Stack for a Private Cloud that now host dozens of clients.

Technical Lead for the Thales Digital Workplace (2017 - 2019)

The Digital Workplace goal was to empower every Thales employee to create, animate, and participate to internal activities and communities. The goal was also to provide a tailored experience to each employee based on his/her profile and allow them to build and share personal dashboard built from a Marketplace of widgets. The Digital Worplace was built with a mix between the Jive Software Platform and custom development.

• I’ve designed and implemented the infrastructure of the platform
• I’ve designed and implemented the backend APIs of the custom solution mixed with Jive.
• I’ve lead the development team (technical choices, training, code reviews,…)
• I’ve lead workshop with various internal Thales teams to ensure the solution was aligned with the Thales ecosystem

The Digital Workplace was used by thousands Thales employees on a daily basis.

Energy Company - Project Management Platform (2014 - 2016)

The goal of the project was to build a platform to provide a unified way to manage projects accross the company, and provide a way for the executives to manage their portfolio of projects. The platform was built using SharePoint & Project Server.

I’ve lead a team of 8 peoples with diverse skills to implement the following :

• Deploy and operate the infrastructure of the platform
• Migrate about 100 projects on the platform
• Provide a comprehensive Electronic Document Management system aligned with enteprises standards (Process, Metadata, Security, …)
• Develop custom tools and workflows to facilitate collaboration and document management
• BI Dashboards with Power BI (On Prem) to review Project Portfolio, KPIs, Risks, etc…
• Provide Change Management and Trainings to end users

We successfully onboarded 1000 users on the platform. The platform was used at the executive committee level to manage the portfolio of projects.

Energy Company - B2C Portal (2013)

The B2C Portal aimed to provide a unified way for the company to interact with its customers, by selling them services, products, and providing them a way to manage their contracts. The portal was built around the Sitecore Digital Platform, and custom development.

I had the opportunity to lead an hybrid team of 6 peoples onshore and offshore to implement the following :

• Sitecore Infrastructure on Azure PaaS (at the time, this was the first installation of Sitecore on Azure PaaS in France)
• Custom frontend and APIs on top of Sitecore
• Secured payment system
• Integration with the company’s ERP through SQL Server Integration Services

The portal was successfully launched at the end of 2013.

Education

2007 : Master’s Degree in Software Engineering - University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA)