François Villain

Cloud Architect | Lead DevOps

Salary / Daily rate

Lyon, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

DevOpsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesAWSAzureTerraformDocker

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

I like to tackle pain-points. That's what i've been doing for the past 14 years. They can come from technical, operational or business constraints, as long as they are identified we can find appropriate solutions. I thrive looking for the bigger picture.

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Work experience

Architecte DevOps

PRO-GX

Nov 2023 - Present

3 years

69380 Marcilly-d'Azergues, France

- Re-designing a container-based client's platform to match Kubernetes best-in-class practices - Move to OVH Public Cloud to reduce costs (around -66%) - Move applications to the Kubernetes world using helm charts - Designed a CI/CD workflow based on Gitlab for clients to run their app's upgrades - Pre-Sales

Founder

Cirrus Consulting

Nov 2023 - Present

3 years

Lyon, France

Senior DevOps

LumApps

Jan 2019 - Sep 2023

4 years 9 months

Tassin · On-site

- Design and build of the new platform running LumApps product - Kubernetes & Micro-Services oriented design - Deploying the API Gateway (kong) and tooling to ease deployment - GitOps approach to consume the platform in a Self-Service fashion (Atlantis, ArgoCD) - Databases migrations & infra components upgrades - Consultant for devs teams for new features requiring non-standard cloud resources - Costs optimizations

Linkbynet

Apr 2010 - Jan 2019

8 years 10 months

Lyon Area, France

DevOps ProductOwner

Sep 2017 - Jan 2019

1 year 5 months

Lyon Area, France

- Product Owner on a project facilitating DevOps adoption around containers technologies + Service Offer Definition (Marketing, Catalog, etc) + Technical Integration and Automation - Management of a DevOps Team in Lyon's Office

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2014 - Sep 2017

3 years

69760 Limonest, France

Linux System engineer

Oct 2012 - Oct 2014

2 years 1 month

Lyon, France

- Automation of BUILD activity + Optimization and modification of internal process to augment performance and automation capability. + Identification and rationalizationof clients/ infrastructures constraintsto extract a unified processfor server deployment (over 15+ infrastructures and 700+ clients). + Developingthe tools to provide this automation: a web based UI based on a REST API and server-side script execution + With my N+1: Followed the overall project's ROI and designed the product - Cloud expertise: AWS, Numergy + integration to our internal processes, tests & documentation + pre-sales technical consulting on client needs - Pre-Sales consulting + Qualifications

Unix System Administrator

Apr 2010 - Nov 2012

2 years 8 months

Saint-Denis, France

- Installation and migration of client's platforms (physical and virtual servers). - Handling major change on client's platforms - Development of several monitoring and exploitation oriented scripts. - Editing technical and fonctional documentation of platforms for the exploitation team. - Automation of server installation - Client councelor. - Quality oriented spirit - Working with several big clients (LVMH, PPR, FNAC).


Education

EPSI

2005 - 2009

5 years

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

DUT Informatique, Computer Sciences

2004 - 2006

3 years


Licenses & certifications

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 - Administration

Issued: Dec 2016

Certified by Red Hat

ITIL Foundation v2011

Issued: Jul 2013

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