
Lionel LONKAP TSAMBA
Lead DevOps & Cloud Architect | AWS, Kubernetes
Salary / Daily rate
Lille, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Sr. Cloud Data Platform Engineer
Crédit Agricole Personal Finance & MobilityFreelance
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
59100 Roubaix, France
Founder
TrueskilFreelance
Apr 2023 - Present
3 years 7 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
AWS DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Swiss Life France
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
2 years
59100 Roubaix, France
• AWS Infrastructure Optimization: Refactored AWS Landing Zone, enhancing efficiency by implementing Terraform for seamless resource management. Streamlined Jenkins pipelines for high performance. • CI/CD Pipeline Leadership: Improved CI/CD processes, reducing outages by deploying a new Jenkins CI architecture and optimizing AWS CodePipeline triggers with Terraform. • Developer Experience: Reduced onboarding time from days to minutes with a VSCode-based remote environment using custom AMIs and EC2 templates. • AMI Lifecycle & Security: Established a compliant AWS AMI lifecycle and built a VM hardening service using Ansible, aligning with CIS guidelines. • AWS Compliance Automation: Migrated AWS Config rules to RDK using TDD, ensuring compliance with SwissLife’s security standards. • SSL Automation: Automated SSL certificate renewal with a Lambda-based service, creating a Python SDK for Sectigo SSL integration. • AWS Control Tower Migration: Designed the migration plan from AWS Landing Zone to Control Tower, streamlining multi-account management and team onboarding.
Sr. DevOps & Cloud Engineer Consultant
AUCHAN RETAIL INTERNATIONAL
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 7 months
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
I contributed to a transformation program to enable teams to deliver secure, scalable applications quickly and at scale. As a DevOps Expert within the CICD team, I supported project teams in their transformation journey by: • Creating a DORA-based maturity model to assess their software delivery level. • Conducting audits and setting target objectives to improve their software delivery pipelines. • Developing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, incorporating quality and security checks. • Raising awareness of SAST benefits with SonarQube through demos and POCs. • Providing training and technical guidance on tools and application architecture. • Introducing Four Keys metrics to measure delivery performance.
Head Of Infrastructure
Saveur Biere
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
8 months
59273 Fretin, France
I led the Platform Engineering Team to enhance the customer experience by: • Defining OKRs aligned with business goals. • Auditing AWS infrastructure and implementing a plan to improve security, reliability, and cost efficiency. • Load testing the platform for Black Friday 2021 readiness. • Building a CMDB for IT asset management and creating C4 architecture diagrams. • Establishing SLI, SLOs, and alerts to monitor critical user flows on eStores. • Driving the adoption of RFC/ADR for design decisions. • Providing robust AWS environments using AWS CDK (IaC) and offering top-level support to development teams. • Ensuring continuous compliance with AB InBev standards.
Devops Engineer & AWS Cloud Solutions Architect
e.Voyageurs SNCF
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
2 years 2 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Part of the e.Voyageurs SNCF Opportunities Business Unit in the DevOps Team I was in charge of: • Building effective and efficient CI/CD pipelines to improve our software delivery • Building tooling to improve developer experience and automate operation activities • Taking charge of implementing automated data export workflows, a crucial step in meeting our Business Analytics needs • Making significant Contributions to our AWS Service Catalog portfolio by implementing new features and resolving bug • Delivering AWS training content and workshops to level up the e.Voyageurs team’s skills • Building Terraform scripts & CloudFormation templates to enable the migration of our on-premise Drupal-based workload to the AWS Cloud — in a hurry • Load/Stress testing the infrastructure to ensure that it is well-sized for events with high-load traffic • Giving internal and external tech-talk at conferences — Eg: FOSDEM 2021 Skills: • AWS • WSO2 Products (APIM, IS, ESB) • EventStore •Eventuate • Ansible • Go • Shell • Linux • SOP • ITSM • ChangeManagement • Nagios • Jenkins • Nexus • Rundeck • SSL • Tech-talks • Node • Ruby • Rake • IAAS
Devops Engineer & AWS Cloud Solutions Architect
OLIVER'STORE
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
2 years 9 months
Helped the Business provided the best online selling experience to their customers; by means of : • Helping define technical architectures aligned with business needs and objectives • Collaborating with teams to build an effective and efficient software development lifecycle • Leading adoption of the DevOps Culture and practices • Defining standards for development and operational activities • Leading continuous skill improvements through internal training and sessions workshops Skills: AWS • WSO2 Products (APIM, IS, ESB) • EventStore •Eventuate • Ansible • Go • Shell • Linux • SOP • ITSM • ChangeManagement • Nagios • Jenkins • Nexus • Rundeck • SSL • Tech-talks • Node • Ruby • Rake • IAAS • ConfigMgt
Worldline Global
Mar 2013 - Oct 2016
3 years 8 months
Seclin, France
Application and operation IT manager – Level 3
Sep 2013 - Oct 2016
3 years 2 months
Seclin, France
Helped Customer build trust with their users and provide the best quality of service possible; by means of : • Providing an excellent Customer Support Service and an effective Incident management • Deploying new services or services update with less risk and near-zero downtime in a cloud-like infrastructure • Securing the traffic data in transit and Ensuring that application’s performances meet SLAs — QoS analysis Skills: SSL/TLS • tomcat • apache/nginx • cyrus • cvs • lb • postfix • logstash • kibana • database • SQL • MySQL • ITSM • RPM • SIP • QoS • chef
JAVA/J2EE/Javascript Web Developer
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
6 months
Seclin, France
Enabled management to visualize KPIs and other strategic metrics related to a messaging platform by : • Collaborating with teams from different business units to identify the problem • Doing data aggregation, transformation, visualization • Troubleshooting issues and Identifying some performance improvements Skills: D3.js • BackboneJS • HTML5/CSS3 • WebWorkers • Python • TDD • RRDTool • Java • Jersey
Android developer (@GawlittaDigitale)
SmartExposé GmbH
May 2012 - Aug 2012
4 months
Berlin Metropolitan Area
Enabled people to let, rent, and flat-share a one-room apartment all in one android application. Challenges : • Learn Android Application Design and Development — with some advanced level skills • Deal with Facebook SDK Android for application authentication • Provide Localization and internationalization features for applications • Deal with REST API and Web Services as data providers for applications Skills: Android • REST • API • AsyncTask • FacebookSDK • UI • UX • Accessibility
Web developer (Ruby On Rails)
Crezeo
Jun 2011 - Dec 2011
7 months
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Enabled professional pharmacists, pharmacy students and assistants to connect, Share knowledge and experiences, and to seek for opportunities in their file; using a dedicated social network of pharmacists. Challenges were : Technical analysis – New features - Testing - Bug fixes
Education
Harvard University
Leading with Finance
2023 - Present
3 years 2 months
Université catholique de Lille
DU Education Financière et Fiscale
2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
L'atelier des Chefs
2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Polytech Lille
Master's degree
2010 - 2013
3 years 1 month
Lycée LOUIS THUILLIER
Mathematics
2007 - 2010
3 years 1 month
Lycée Classique et Moderne de Garoua
Baccalauréat S
2006 - 2007
1 year 1 month