naoufal el gafa
☁️ Cloud & Solutions Architect | Technical Advisor
Salary / Daily rate
31700 Blagnac, France
Freelance
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
14+ years helping aerospace ✈️, space 🛰️ and telecom 📡 organizations make the right architecture decisions — at scale. 🧭 How I work I work with technical leaders and stakeholders to define cloud architecture strategies, govern platforms at scale, and translate business requirements into sound architecture decisions. ✓ Business-first thinker ✓ Honest advisor who challenges assump ✓ Known for structured documentation, blueprints and long-term thinking
Work experience
AWS Cloud Architect
AirbusFreelance
Sep 2022 - Present
4 years 2 months
Toulouse, France
Cloud Architect Solution & DevOps
Thales Alenia SpaceFreelance
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
11 months
Toulouse, France
In the context of satellite image processing, I've been given to play different roles to achieve our objectives. As a DevOps Engineer, I was responsible for automating Integration and Deployment with GitLab by : --> Making CI to build k8s resources --> Making CI to package K8S Resources on a Helm Chart and to push it to the JForg Artifactory --> Making CI to push Docker images to the JForg Artifactory --> Automating the installation and the deployment in local dev laptop with k3d --> For security purposes The Continuous Deployment was not possible because the Prod Platform is disconnected from all networks As a Cloud Architect, I was responsible to make solutions to split a monolithic application into a dockerized application by : --> Instruction and drafting of architectural files --> High level design --> Realization of architectural diagrams --> Advising for the best practice of microservices splitting --> Dockerizing each micro-services --> Creating Kubernetes workflows with Argo Workflow to orchestrate the sequence of different micro-services --> Packaging all needed resources on a Helm Chart to facilitate deployment As a Lead, I was responsible to : --> Maintain fluid communication between team members, --> Manage Daily Scrum and Jira tasks --> Help the team to develop their skills --> Prepare various customer demos by creating slides and delivering POCs
SQUAD - Cabinet de conseils et d’expertises
Mar 2018 - Dec 2021
3 years 10 months
Toulouse, France
Solution Architect & DevOps (Mission At Thales Alenia Space)
May 2021 - Dec 2021
8 months
Toulouse, France
Migration of the monolithic deployment of legacies applications to a micro-services-oriented deployment : -> Dockerization of each module of the application -> Define K8S resources application -> Helming different modules -> CI / CD To create and publish a docker image -> CI / CD to build and publish Helm Chart
Expert And Experience Leader
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
2 years 2 months
Toulouse Area, France
As an Expert And Experience Leader of the Technical Center of Excellence of SQUAD, I've been given to : --> Make technical validation interview --> Manage consultant's career (Career Counseling) --> Advice and support for consultants --> To Share Blueprint and Knowledge on Mix Your Talent Event
Senior Software Engineer (Mission At Nexity)
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
2 years 10 months
Toulouse, France
I played different roles in my mission at Nexity: As a Software Engineer, I've been given to : --> Architect, design, and develop software applications oriented on-premise and on the cloud as well as automate CI/CD for existing software applications and new ones --> Architect, design and develop backend Asp.net Web Api --> Architect, design and develop backend net core Api (3.1) --> Architect, design and develop frontend applications with Angular >8 As a Cloud Architect I've been given to : --> Make an AWS cloud-oriented architecture with micro-services and serverless solutions (Lambda, ApiGateway, Docker, ECS Fargate) --> Propose different AWS architectures for migrating applications that are currently on-premise (EC2, Load Balancer, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) As a DevOps engineer I've been given to : --> Migrate all existing projects from TFS to Git on Azure DevOps --> Create different policies for the git branch (pull request validation, builds validation, etc ... --> Create different CI builds --> Create different CD releases
Developer WPF (Mission at Naval Groupe)
Mar 2018 - May 2018
3 months
Toulouse Area, France
Scalable maintenance of a submarine SNA application that manages the metrics of all differents bigrammes. -> Tablet App: In this app the crew can fill the different metrics of all different bigrammes daily, and visualize a chart to know if the metrics respect the different thresholds -> Desktop App: In this App the admin can configure all possible metrics (Managing Bigrammes with different Threshold), Manage all ship, manage all crews, export data csv, and also data synchronization between different tablet and desktop app.
Senior Software Architect
GAFA CLOUDFreelance
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
2 years 1 month
Toulouse Area, France
Founder, Architect and Managed services of a web platform with a serverless architecture allowing users to make appointments with hairdressers : https://coifflib.com --> Front-end : Angular V8, Bootstrap V4, ngx libraries (bootstrap, cookiesconsent, toastr, translate ...), HTML5, SASS. --> Back-end : Firebase --> Firestore database, Cloud Storage, Cloud Function, Authentication providers with Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Stripe.js for online payment. AWS --> S3, Cloudfront for dev environment and dynamodb for hairdresser's appointments statistic --> Versionning : Git --> CI/CD : Gitlab
Altran
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
2 years 8 months
Toulouse Area, France
Lead Developer Full Stack (Mission at Orange)
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
1 year 6 months
Toulouse Area, France
Project context: Web app to modelize Orange DataCenter Functional skills : --> Project Recovery --> Coaching the team (Dev, ScrumMaster, PO) to build skills --> Contributing in the backlog grooming --> Proposal and architectural design --> User story writing and modifying Technical skills : --> Anticipating customer needs with abstract architectures --> Solution proposal for complex workflows --> Project conception --> Project development (code and TU) Technologies: --> Backend : Java8 (SpringMVC, Api, dozer, Hibernate, JPARepository) --> FrontEnd : HTML, CSS, AngularJs (1.5), GruntJs, bowerJs, D3Js --> Package management : Maven, Node --> Versioning: GIT --> DevOps : Jenkins (deployment job, quality job) SonarQube ( Graphical views for quality code)
Developer FullStack (Mission at LATelec)
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 1 month
Toulouse Area, France
Backend : --> .NET 4.0,4.5 : C# (MVC, Razor, EF, WCF, SilverLight) FrontEnd : -->HTML, CSS, AngularJs (1.5) Package management : --> Nuget Versioning: --> TFS
Developer AngularJs and cesiumJs (Mission At VirtualIt)
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
3 months
Toulouse Area, France
FrontEnd : -->HTML, CSS, AngularJs (1.5), CesiumJs Package management : --> Node Versioning: -->SVN
Software Engineer Internship
Alter solutions
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
7 months
Versailles Area, France
WPF Development
C# Developer
Jhunting
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
5 months
Tétouan Province, Morocco
Designer and Developer of a responsive Web Site with MVC 3 and angularjs
FreeLance
VISUALINFO
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
5 months
Tangier, Morocco
Android Developer
C# Developper Internship
Linam Solution
Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
7 months
Tangier, Morocco
web and Desktop Developer with framwork .net 4.0 ( WinForm, Ado.net, WCF, SilverLight, n tière, Class Lybrary "DLL")
Trainer and Developer
Begin to Informatique
Mar 2010 - Oct 2011
1 year 8 months
Tétouan Province, Morocco
train students in the algorithm, C, C # and Java language. Developer of Desktop application (C #, Java) and web (CMS "Joomla", CSS, PHP)
Education
Nantes Université
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
2014 - 2015
11 months
Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi
Master of Computer Applications - MCA
2011 - 2013
2 years 1 month
Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi
Bachelor's degree
2006 - 2010
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
AWS Solution Architect - Associate
Issued: Feb 2020