Philippe HUET

I'm currently on a career break and thinking about where I'd like to take my career to, to get back to the DNA of startups where positive energy, momentum and achieving goals were more important than anyone's egos.

As a Domain Solution Architect for the Telco Ecosystem at SUSE, the role focuses on promoting Rancher Prime and Telco Edge solutions. It involves engaging with NEPs and Telecom operators, providing technical expertise, demonstrations, and strategic guidance to showcase SUSE’s capabilities in Telco cloud and edge deployments.

Led the Paris Global Operations team, managing critical infrastructure and supporting EU-wide operations, while collaborating with global management teams. • Directed the Paris Global Operations team, overseeing the EU data center, RBN network, and platform infrastructure. • Led recruitment efforts for engineering staff to build out the Global Operations team in Paris and across the EU, ensuring top talent acquisition. • Actively participated in performance reviews and career development programs for Global Operations team members. Global Collaboration: • Maintained direct communication with Japanese management in Tokyo and worked closely with counterpart managers in North America (Boston) and Canada (Toronto) to ensure alignment of operations and strategy across regions. Technical Management of XaaS Services: • Managed private rack housing and private cloud platforms, leveraging OpenStack and VMWare. • Delivered container orchestration as a service (CaaS) using Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. • Handled virtual data center provisioning with tools like Terraform, Heat, and AWS CloudFormation. Application Development: • Developed infrastructure applications using Go, Kafka, Cassandra, and Hadoop v2 to support various business units and subsidiaries.

Long-term mission to support Rakuten France in its transformation, guiding teams in adopting Agile and DevOps practices. • Collaborated with the Integration and Q&A teams to drive the adoption of DevOps best practices across Agile development teams. • Promoted and implemented DevOps methodologies, including sandboxing, containerization, orchestration, automation, and comprehensive monitoring/logging for applications and infrastructure. • Facilitated the smooth transition of development teams from monolithic to microservices-based architectures, ensuring improved scalability and agility. • Provided ongoing support to operations teams to streamline delivery processes and manage day 2 operations for next-generation applications, improving overall operational efficiency and reliability.

- Accompagnement aux développeurs d'entreprises de forte croissance (startup) - Prise de participations (actives), investissements dans les startups - Part-time CTO, DevOps evangelist - Lean Startup / Business Model (BMC) - Conseil, définition des choix technologiques et des solutions - Structuration, organisation des équipes de développement et de production - Recrutement, management, leadership, team building - Levée des incertitudes, innovation A ce jour, 3 sociétés accompagnées avec prise de participations minoritaires, 1 société en accompagnement pour sa réorganisation. -- - Consulting for startup founder - Investor - Lean Startup / Business Model - Consulting for solutions definition - Managment of development and production team - HR, leadership, team building - Innovation

Dotgee was a consulting company embracing Agile, DevOps, and software craftsmanship practices and culture, focusing on delivering expertise through emerging and innovative development frameworks. • Led a team of 10 specialists in the development of complex applications. • Successfully delivered and supported over 20 SaaS application projects over 10 years for high-profile clients, including Universal Music, M6, Mistergooddeal, Business Immo, LISI Aerospace, DDB, GDS, DREAL Bretagne, CNRS, and MNHN. Core Areas of Focus: • Acted as digital strategy facilitators for web, mobile, multi-device, and cloud-based solutions. • Developed web and mobile applications with a strong expertise in Ruby on Rails, APIs, and microservices architecture. • Proficient in JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, BackboneJS, and EmberJS. • Applied DevOps practices using tools like Ansible, Puppet, Docker, and Vagrant. • Implemented cloud computing, virtualization, and PaaS solutions (e.g., DigitalOcean, AWS). Specialization in GIS Solutions: • Provided online Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solutions using platforms like GeoOrchestra and GeoCMS. Consulting Services: • Offered advisory services in architecture, hosting, and managed infrastructure/platform operations.

Définition et lead développement de la solution SaaS basée sur : - Ruby On Rails - AngularJS - Postgresql - Cassandra

- Responsable de la conception et du déploiement de l'infrastructure de services managés (Managed Hosting) - Responsable des équipes de production (support, intégration, déploiement) - Responsable de la fiabilité et de la disponibilité des infrastructures - Manager de l'équipe technique (~20 personnes) - Validation des pré-requis clients - Validation technique des propositions commerciales - Avant-vente - Développement de la clientèle - Business Development - Mise en place de partenariats

- Gestion et administration de l'infrastructure - Gestion du support client niveau 2 - Gestion des projets de déploiement client (TF1, APEC, Evian/Danone, ...)

- Conception et développement de solutions d'hébergements d'infrastructure

Gestion de l'ensemble des systèmes (serveurs) composants la plateforme d'hébergement et ceux des clients. Administration des applications (web, mail, news) et des bases de données. Accompagnement OPS des développeurs d'applications Web. Encadrement de 3 personnes.