Guillaume Renault

Independent consultant helping companies with: Advanced Software Engineering: delivering robust solutions in infrastructure/networking contexts, including architecture design and custom integrations. Cloud Computing and Networking Architecture: enhancing scalability, security, and operational efficiency. DevOps and SRE: Implementing automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability practices to streamline operations and reduce risks. AI Engineering: ML model deployment, Inference optimization, RAG & Agentic Systems, Prompt engineering & Evaluations.

Led a cross-functional team of 5 on all fronts: Engineering, Product, Marketing & Sales. Delivered a production-ready Generative AI platform in less than 6 months offering blazing fast deployment of AI models to dedicated GPUs (<60s).

Hive aims to provide sovereign cloud infrastructure harnessing the unused capacity of computers around the world using peer to peer technology. Member of the initial founding team, I acted as Lead Research & Development Engineer collaborating closely with the CTO. I led on all core technical components, including software engineering (Go), cloud infrastructure, and peer-to-peer networking. Hive raised €7M in seed funding in 2022 and €12M in Series A in 2024.

Volterra (acquired by F5 in 2021) provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and operate apps and data across multiple clouds and edge sites. Acting as Senior DevOps Infrastructure Engineer within the distributed team operating all the PCI DSS compliant points of presence making up F5/Volterra's Global network, I tackled large-scale cloud infrastructure automation challenges.

Solicited by a training organization to construct and deliver a one week custom Python training designed specifically for computer networking experts. Constructed detailed teaching material and programming exercises on how to use Python effectively when facing complex computer networking challenges. Delivered the training session in Fortinet's office in Sophia-Antipolis (France) and received a 9.9/10 rating from the students (10 Consulting Systems Engineer) on the overall training (content and delivery).

Within Orange's Digital Factory (responsible for Orange's homepage: www.orange.fr, France's 8th most visited website) Cloud Infrastructure team, I took on automation challenges at scale. Lead contributor in a special infrastructure research task force, I conducted numerous advanced infrastructure automation proof-of-concepts using Python and the event-driven architecture pattern using Kafka. Delivered in-depth presentations to senior management and key infrastructure stakeholders.

Member of Air France-KLM's distributed Infrastructure and operations team, I took part in a organization-wide project to ensure containerization efforts were homogeneous across the company. Key contributor in many cross-team technical workshops and discussions to ensure the project was steered in the right direction for all teams involved in the project. Mentored Data Scientists on Python and Software Engineering topics, while also introducing state-of-the-art automation and DevOps practices to operations teams.

Lead software developer (Python) for a data migration project (legacy system to Microsoft SharePoint).

As an intern for Air France, I was part of the network infrastructure team and assisted core members in their tasks by developing Python scripts and diving deep into networking configuration blockers (migration project from Cisco to Juniper appliances).