Valentin Cabourdin

☛ Implementing CI/CD with Gitlab.com: Git, Docker registry, Pipelines (build, tests, deployments) ☛ Dockerizing existing projects (Writing Dockerfiles, Using docker-compose, Deploying to registry…) ☛ OVH Cloud: Provisioning Ubuntu Docker nodes in OpenStack (Integ, QA, Production and Tools) ☛ Promoting Agility and transparency: using Gitlab.com issues and wiki ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Suppression of all manual actions (database migrations, deployments…) ✔ Improved the time to market for new features (hours instead of weeks) ✔ Improved the deployment frequency (multiple times per day instead of twice per month) ✔ Improved quality of applications and customer satisfaction ☛ Collaboration with: Scooprint CEO, FX-comunik developers. Neurones developers and system engineers

☛ Fully automated Continuous Deployment on Heroku for a large-scale organisation application ☛ Fully automated Continuous Delivery & DevOps transition for all of Neurones hosted projects ☛ DevOps consulting & pre-sales for several small and medium size organisations ☛ Fully automated workstation management for Neurones developers ☛ Agile coaching & product management for Neurones ☛ Git consulting & training for the State of Valais ☛ Team & customer management for Neurones ☛ Atlassian consulting & training for several clients and Neurones ☛ Development of several web applications This list is a summary of my experiences, you'll find more details below.

• Architecting and developing complex and large scaled web applications and REST APIs: o PHP: Drupal, Symfony, Yii, Joomla, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Solr, Composer, PHPUnit… o JavaScript SPA: Angular, Vue.js, NodeJs, Loopback, Express Backbone, Mocha, MongoDB, Grunt/Gulp… Results achieved: Excellent knowledge of advanced dev workflows, REST APIs and single page applications. Collaboration with: Neurones developers and system engineers. Project managers.

☛ Team: ✔Five developers and one system engineer ✔Leading one to one quarterly follow-ups ✔Planning and organising work ☛ Customers: ✔ Building a client relationship based on transparency, trust and respect ✔Organising follow-up meetings and negotiating budgets ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Improved communication between team members, customers. ✔ Improved the delivery rate. ☛ Collaboration with: Neurones developers and system engineers. Customers. Project managers.

☛ Consulting: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery ☛ Pre-sales presentations: ✔ English or French audience ✔ DevOps Basics and ROI for stakeholders and managers ✔ DevOps advanced concepts for technical leaders, developers and system engineers ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Improved mindset (based on real life feedback) and presentation skills ☛ Collaboration with: Neurones CEO, COO, Sales and Business Development Manager, customers.

☛ Implementing CI/CD (~20 projects) with different technology stacks (Java, PHP, JavaScript, NodeJs, .NET) ☛ Bitbucket server: Git, Feature branching, organising pull requests and code reviews ☛ CI/CD with Bamboo: Configuring build plans and deployments plans (automation with Bamboo API) ☛ Tests automation: Unit tests, Selenium, automatic screenshots, load tests ☛ Ansible: developing build and deployment scripts (triggered by Bamboo) ☛ Dockerizing of all applications (Writing Dockerfiles, Using docker-compose, Deploying to registry…) ☛ Developing “Self-service” Docker images: to support teams and their pipelines (Tomcat, Nginx, Apache, Solr, ElasticSearch, NodeJs, PHP, Liferay, Drupal, Joomla…) ☛ Release management: Using Private Docker registry, Bamboo artefacts and Nexus ☛ Private cloud: Using Ubuntu Docker nodes (Integ, QA, Production and Tools) ✔ Puppet: Working closely with system engineers and developing modules for configuration management of nodes ✔ Docker: Managing Docker containers on different nodes ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Successful DevOps transition by following the three ways (Improving flow from business to customer, increasing feedback loops from customer to business, culture of continuous experimentation and learning) ✔ Suppression of all manual actions (database migrations, deployments…) ✔ Improved the time to market and deployment frequency (hours instead of days) ✔ Improved quality of applications and customer satisfaction ✔ Reduced recovery time from failure (minutes instead of hours) and the failure rate ✔ Reduced time spent on unplanned work and rework ✔ Improved employee engagement and culture of automation, quality, innovation ☛ Collaboration with: ✔ Daily/Weekly: Neurones developers and system engineers. Customers. Project managers. Third party providers. ✔ 1/3/6-Monthly: Neurones CEO, COO, Sales and Business Development Manager

☛ Installing, configuring and training: ✔ Docker-based setup of Jira, Bitbucket server, Bamboo, Confluence ☛ Developing: ✔ External automatic billing application based on Jira and tempo REST APIs ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Improved the efficiency of the tools drastically by matching them with real-life workflows ✔ Reduced drastically the time spent on billing and on upgrading tools each month ☛ Collaboration with: Neurones developers and system engineers. Customers. Project managers.

☛ Consulting: ✔ Git branches strategy for efficient Continuous Delivery ☛ Training: ✔ Git basics to a team of height developers and four system engineers to Git basics (theory and workshops) ✔ Git advanced concepts to the same team of height developers six months later (theory and workshops) ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Git branching strategy is efficient for sprints releases and hotfixes ✔ Great feedback from all participants and core concepts were still mastered six months later ✔ The most resistant to change were at ease and convinced after the different pieces of training ☛ Collaboration with: State of Valais’ head of Internet Capability Center, developers and system engineers

☛ Promoting Agile: ✔ Several Agile presentations for developers, system administrators, managers and clients ☛ SCRUM: ✔ Implementing & training for fixed-rate projects ✔ Animating backlog grooming, planning pokers, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives ☛ Kanban: ✔ Implementing a flow for maintenance and evolution. ✔ Prioritising user stories ☛ TDD: Implementing & training ☛ Product management: ✔ Three different products (online quiz, ECM workflow plugin, ECM BPMN plugin) ✔ Gathering customer input to create a product backlog by redacting relevant user stories ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Improved collaboration and continuous improvement with an Agile mindset ✔ Improved customer satisfaction by delivering the right product with the highest quality possible ✔ Improved flexibility and visibility by adopting Kanban for maintenance and evolutions ✔ Creation of an “Agile contract” for maintenance and evolution adopted by most of Neurones customers ☛ Collaboration with: Neurones managers, developers and system engineers

☛ Developing Ansible playbooks to automate: ✔ installation and maintenance of common high-level tools on Linux workstations (Docker, IntelliJ, npm, git, ruby…) ✔ installation and maintenance of optional “on demand” applications (Filezilla, Atom, Spotify…) ✔ configuration (sudoers, groups, ssh keys, VPNs…) ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Reduced drastically workstations installation time (minutes instead of hours) ✔ Improved workstations stability and security ✔ Reduced drastically time spent on non-value added operations by system engineers and developers ✔ Improved developers’ productivity, satisfaction and culture of continuous improvement ☛ Collaboration with: Neurones developers and system engineers

☛ Implementing CI/CD with Bamboo & Heroku: build, tests, deployments with Heroku CLI ☛ Dockerizing project for local development (Writing Dockerfile as close as possible from Heroku stack) ☛ Using Heroku add-ons: for JawsDB MySQL, Scheduler, Bucketeer (S3), New Relic APM, Papertrail, Loader.io ☛ Results achieved: ✔ Improved scalability and hosting costs ✔ Reduced the maintenance needed on components replaced by Heroku add-ons ☛ Collaboration with: Client developers and system engineers