Damien Parbhakar

– Leading the co-creation of Frog Cloud's technical landscape, vision, roadmap, best practices and guidelines. – CTO as a Service: Helping customers designing, building, running, optimizing, or maintaining their cloud. – Designing and building our internal tools and our upcoming SaaS/PaaS products. – Developing Cloud Native Software and Infrastructure solutions centered around Kubernetes. – Avoiding vendor-lock and adopting a Cloud Neutral approach (!== Cloud Agnostic). – Using battle-tested OSS solutions to replace costly SaaS products. – Managing and training our Kubernetes and Software Engineering consultants. – Constantly improving our engineering environment by integrating OSS solutions or building custom software.

– Participating in 15+ projects to oversee software delivery, infrastructure and operations. – Hands-on role, building customer platforms, internal tools and responding to incidents with my teams. – Building and managing 3 Platform Engineering Teams in Paris, Lyon and Madrid. – Promoting DevOps, SecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, from dev to prod, on 15+ projects (~100 developers). – Holding internal meetups and workshops to raise awareness, and transmit knowledge across teams. – Supervising 8000+ deployments, 20+ k8s clusters. From dev to prod serving millions of requests daily. – Participating to RFPs, designing the infrastructure and operations of customer Platforms. – Monitoring my teams and their KPIs to provide them better training, tackle pain points and drive change. – Standardizing and industrializing operations across all internal and customer projects. – R&D to solve long term challenges by designing innovative platform solutions, using OSS and internal tools. – Optimizing performance and cost of operations. On some platforms reduced hosting cost up to 75%. – International environment, with different challenges and technical stacks depending on the project. – Stack: GCP, AWS, On-Premise, k8s, NodeJS, Python, Java, Go, Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane, Grafana, Promtheus, ElasticSearch, Kibana, RabbitMQ, Sentry, DynaTrace, Datadog, and many project dependent techs.

– Designing a Cloud Platform based on a self-managed k8s built using IaC and public cloud infrastructure. – Building a Cloud Native, distributed, autoscaling Web Scraping Platform running hundreds of workers, ingesting a volume of 500.000 to 1.500.000 webpages per hour. – Building a BI Platform to aggregate, process, enrich, explore data and visualize it withcreate dashboards. – Developing a web app with a browser plugin and a mobile version to provide recruiters with automation tools. – Scraping profiles from different sources (e.g: LinkedIn, github), and enriching data by a ML model. – Stack: GCP, Terraform, k8s, Helm, python, NodeJS, ES6, ReactJS, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kafka, RabbitMQ

– Designing tools to run customized cryptocurrency mining hardware and software. – Providing blockchain architecture and development training or workshops (Ethereum/Solidity). – Building microservices and web scrapers to analyze crypto news, prices and monitor hardware prices. – Advising customers on both technical strategy and digital marketing strategy. – Stack: k8s, Prometheus, Grafana, bash, python, ReactJS, NodeJS, Go

Highlighted projects: Dev FullStack & DevOps @ SemantiWeb (Social Media e-listening / Big Data) – Building scrapers that crawl social media or blogs and extract brand sentiment on millions of posts daily. – Developing Data Vizualization dashboards, with hundreds of facets and dozens of filters. – Participating in design and optimization of semantic algorithms that provide sentiment analysis. – Refactoring internal libraries and tools, to adopt a more OOP approach when it was relevant. – Initiating a migration from SVN to Git, providing training to the teams to modernize their practices. – Reworking software delivery methods, from a single deployment unit to a more flexible one. – Researching an upgrade path to manage technical debt on Apache Solr. – Using PHP to build CLIs in order to automate tasks and orchestrate scraping workers. – Stack: Java, JS, NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, d3, PHP, CLI, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, SQL Dev FullStack & DevOps @ Kammi (Human Resources Web App). – Developing new features on the app, both on the frontend and backend sides. – Monitoring and optimizing the application in production, with thousands of daily users. – Migrating monolithic and complex vanilla PHP to a new software architecture model, API centric and based on MVC using Slim Framework and Composer. – Modernizing dev to prod workflows based on ClickOps from Plesk to introduce CI/CD. – Introducing Code Review meetings in the team, and driving knowledge transfer and attention to quality. – Stack: HTML, JS, PHP, jQuery, Slim, Symfony E-Learning Teacher @ Formation 31 (E-learning Dev School) – Designing an intensive e-learning course to learn web development. – Teaching the course during 4 months to 60 students, and following closely their progress. – Preparing students to take their exam. – Stack: HTML, JS, PHP, jQuery, WordPress, MySQL Also worked on: web apps, video-games (Unity, WebGL), marketing websites, e-business websites, APIs, data processing, etc...

– Managed development, deployment, infrastructure and operations for 20+ projects hosted on-premise – Optimizing websites for SEO and Web Marketing – Participating in Digital Marketing strategy design and implementation – Cooperating with designers to produce pixel perfect and demanding web designs – Operating large scale e-mail marketing campaigns with a heavy cross-platform test suite – Recruiting and training interns – Stack: HTML, PHP, JS, Symfony, WordPress, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, MySQL, ElasticSearch

– Developing a simple web app to help analyzing how students use social networks based on answers collected on the field, in order to improve the quality of the conferences. – Speaker in schools all around France to teach students and education professionals how to safely use Internet, social networks, connected devices, as well as basic cybersecurity and IT knowledge to help fighting against cyberbullying, phishing, and other threats. – Answering anonymous calls of cyberbullied students asking for psychological support, technical support, or legal guidance.