Alban Coulombié

- Enhanced developer experience for 100+ engineers by building tools, frameworks, and automation that streamline cloud infrastructure workflows and application deployments, evaluating and utilizing multi-model AI development platforms to enhance code quality and accelerate infrastructure automation - Built internal tooling that improved deployment tracking and developer productivity - Maintained platform reliability and optimized CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI) - Provided on-call support for critical infrastructure components - Collaborated with security, product, and platform teams to reduce cognitive load and accelerate deployment velocity across multi-cloud environments - Developed strategic technical briefs (1-pagers and 6-pagers) that secured stakeholder buy-in and launched key initiatives - Led security initiatives including least-privilege access controls for Terraform Cloud Operator, reducing AWS permission exposure by 90%+, and migration from long-lived IAM credentials - Collaborated with security teams to enforce STIG-compliant base images across cloud infrastructure to meet federal security standards for FedRAMP authorization - Ensured operational excellence across AWS and GCP environments

- Designed and maintained Snyk's cloud platform infrastructure on AWS and GCP, enabling secure, scalable, and reliable services for both single-tenants and multi-tenants environments - Collaborated closely with Developer Experience and SRE teams to balance infrastructure performance, system reliability, and developer productivity - Provided on-call support for production components to ensure high availability and rapid incident resolution - Built and maintained Terraform modules and Helm Charts with CI/CD automation for multi-region cloud deployments - Supported engineering teams with infrastructure best practices, cost optimization, and cloud security improvements - Developed strategic technical briefs (1-pagers and 6-pagers) that secured stakeholder buy-in and launched key initiative - Led critical security migrations including migrating thousands multi-cloud secrets system to AWS Secrets Manager and External Secrets Operator as part of FedRAMP authorization efforts Key skills: Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, CircleCI, Istio, Kyverno, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Datadog, Technical 1-pagers and 6-pagers

- Enhanced build engineering processes and developer workflows across 15+ engineering teams - Drove adoption of managed Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code practices on Azure - Collaborated closely with the Cloud Platform team on technical initiatives

- Spearheaded migration to JFrog Artifactory to improve artifact management at enterprise scale, eliminating missing artifacts and improving retrieval times from minutes to seconds - Contributed to organization-wide transition to Bazel and mono-repo architecture - Integrated Bazel seamlessly with Buildkite CI pipelines and reduced build times from 30+ minutes to under 10 minutes - Developed internal tooling and reusable deployment modules to standardize development operations across teams - Reduced build times and deployment failures through automation and process improvements - Provided technical guidance to development teams on CI/CD best practices - Partnered with Cloud Platform team on infrastructure initiative Key skills: Terraform, Consul, Vault, Artifactory, ArgoCD, Buildkite, Bazel, Istio, Kubernetes, Azure

- Led DevOps operations with a team of 2 Data Engineers and 1 Data Scientist - Ensured operational consistency across the company's technical infrastructure - Managed real-time ETL pipelines utilizing Hadoop, Kafka, and Storm for high-volume data processing - Spearheaded adoption of CoreOS and Docker to establish microservices architecture - Supported continuous delivery workflows through containerization strategy - Built proof-of-concept Python API enabling real-time access to aggregated data from multiple sources Short intro to the Company: Xtendsys delivers Big Data Analytical CRM Solutions. The company was founded in 2012 by ex-Orange Switzerland experienced leaders and entrepreneurs. Our solutions will enable you to collect, analyse, transform, enrich and to visualize all customer interactions in real time, from every channel. The intelligence created will be immediately available to operational CRM systems.

- Led technical infrastructure activities and managed a team of 2 Systems Engineers and collaborating closely with data engineering team - Maintained and enhanced CloudStack-based infrastructure and Hortonworks big data clusters - Designed and implemented automated system provisioning and deployments using Ansible, CFEngine, and Python Fabric

Early-stage engineer, built the complete cloud infrastructure from scratch across two Swiss data centers and migrated 15+ customer projects (1,200+ VMs) from a third-party VMware environment to Apache CloudStack. - Architected and implemented complete CloudStack infrastructure spanning 2 data centers - Led cloud and storage operations with 2 Systems Engineers under direct CTO oversight - Managed physical infrastructure deployment across multiple data centers, including server racking, HPE Blade servers and SuperMicro configuration, and inter-site networking setup​ - Successfully migrated 15 customer projects encompassing 350+ virtual instances from external VMware ESX environment - Coordinated closely with Solutions Engineer team throughout customer migration projects to ensure seamless transition and minimal downtime - Developed custom storage solution leveraging FreeBSD and ZFS technologies - Provided round-the-clock on-call support to ensure system availability

- Joined newly formed team focused on system provisioning and software deployment - Oversaw customer projects from initial preparation through production launch - Automated server provisioning for both physical and virtual infrastructure within VMware ESX environments - Developed comprehensive software deployment processes and Puppet manifests - Specialized in migrating customer projects from physical to virtualized environments

- Managed over 1,200 physical and virtual servers as part of operations team - Served enterprise clients including major CAC40 companies (Euronext Exchange) - Handled complex projects involving system changes, migrations, and infrastructure transformations - Conducted incident investigations and root cause analysis to ensure system reliability - Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical infrastructure maintenance