Current position

Since 2011: Cloud infrastructure manager at IsCool entertainement

IsCool Entertainment develops and publishes games and social applications for the general public. Accessible by all social networks such as Facebook and portal Cafe.com, these games are free, but for the most experienced players, incorporate premium features and virtual goods that can be purchased by micro -transactions.

Amazon Web services
  • Managment of 300 Amazon EC2 instances
  • Create & manage Debian and Ubuntu AMI
  • Manage S3 buckets
LAMP & LEMP plaforms
  • Apache, Nginx
  • PHP + APC + Pinba, Python
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache
  • RabbitMQ
DevOps organisation
  • Heavy-loaded platforms (> 3000 requests per second and server)
  • System & apps logs centralized via Rsyslog
  • Monitoring and capacity planning with Pinba & Zabbix
  • Centralized configuration managment with Puppet
  • Scripts & puppet recipes managed with GIT
  • Analyze and correlate events with Simple Event Correlator

Professional skills

Sytems

Architecture
  • Secured Architectures
  • Resilience, redondancy
  • Asynchronous tasks
Virtualisation
  • Xen, KVM
  • OpenVZ, Virtuozzo
  • VMware versions 3.x & 4.x
Monitoring, capacity planning
  • Nagios, Centreon, Shinken
  • Munin, Cricket
Log management
  • RSyslog
Configuration managment
  • PXE, kickstart (RedHat) & preseed (Debian)
  • Puppet, CfEngine
Operating systems
  • Debian GNU/Linux & Ubuntu
  • RedHat & CentOS
Web
  • Apache, NGinx
  • HaProxy, Varnish
  • Memcache, Redis
  • MySQL, Percona
  • PHP, PHP-FPM, Pinba

Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon RDS

Network

Architecture
  • TCP/IP, Vlans
  • Spanning-Tree
  • BGP, RIPv2 & OSPF
Administration
  • Wireshark, Tshark & tcpdump
  • Load-balancers BigIP F5
  • Keepalived

Security

Design, deployment, administration
  • DMZ, firewall, Netfilter, proxies
Security methods
  • Risk analyzis, EBIOS method
  • DSI / FEROS / PES

Previous positions

Since 2011: Cloud infrastructure manager at IsCool entertainement

IsCool Entertainment develops and publishes games and social applications for the general public. Accessible by all social networks such as Facebook and portal Cafe.com, these games are free, but for the most experienced players, incorporate premium features and virtual goods that can be purchased by micro -transactions.

Amazon Web services
  • Managment of 300 Amazon EC2 instances
  • Create ↦ manage Debian and Ubuntu AMI
  • Manage S3 buckets
LAMP & LEMP plaforms
  • Apache, Nginx
  • PHP + APC + Pinba, Python
  • MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache
  • RabbitMQ
DevOps organisation
  • Heavy-loaded platforms (> 3000 requests per second and server)
  • System & apps logs centralized via Rsyslog
  • Monitoring and capacity planning with Pinba & Zabbix
  • Centralized configuration managment with Puppet
  • Scripts & puppet recipes managed with GIT
  • Analyze and correlate events with Simple Event Correlator

2010 - 2011: Linux & VMware system engineer - Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs holding

Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs holding is european leader in Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry.

Manager of Linux system engineering
  • RedHat and CentOS common setup definition and deployment, installation automation
  • Involved in business projects as technical expert
  • System and network architecture definition for new projects, architecture enhancements for already released applications.
VMware ESXi administration (20 servers)
  • Project manager hardware (use of blade servers) and software (ESX 3.x to ESXi 4.1) upgrade
  • vMotion, monitoring and capacity planning
  • ESXi configuration and patch management
Involved in Pillar DataSystem storage management
  • Zonning definition, servers setup
  • Redondancy with IPStor appliances
  • Monitoring and capacity planning

2007 - 2010: System and network administration manager - Amen holding

With more than 100.000 customers and 300.000 managed domain names, Amen is one of the european leaders in Internet hosting. Product range goes from classical shared hosting to dedicated hosting through private virtuel hosting or E-commerce platform.

Système and networks administration team manager
  • 4 peoples management, 24x7 duties
  • System infrastructure management (4000 servers, 3500 virtual machines) and network (2 Datacenters / AS / POP, 2 network providers)
  • New hosting products definition (marketing, development, technical architecture, monitoring, capacity planning)
Infrastructure manager
  • Amen website (customer space, corporate website, intranet, online selling: 150 000 visits, 1,2M pages viewed/month, 99,99% uptime)
  • DNS servers, Monitoring, Filers (Bind, PowerDNS, MyDNS, Nagios, Cricket, Munin, NetApp, Coraid)
  • Hosted in 2 Datacenters with 2 network providers

2003 - 2007: Technical IT security auditor - French Navy

Teacher training in "Firewall, architecture and deployment" - CFSSI
  • Writing course material
  • Put into practice with Netfilter / iptables.
  • 4 sessions of 2 days each year
  • Approximately 15 trainees per session, senior technician level to engineer.
IT security technical audits on Unix and Windows systems, from 2004 december to 2007 april
  • Audit procedures definition and implementation,
  • Conducting technical audits,
  • Outcomes presentation,
  • Recommendations and action plan writing.
Sécurité Informatique (Security Computer Defense) - French Navy, DCSIM
  • Setting up a network intrusion Safety Alert

2000 - 2003 - Intranet websites developer - French Navy

LAMP servers setup
  • Deployment, administration
  • Monitoring, optimisation, security
  • PHP developments

1992 - 2000 - Radar technician - French Navy

School degree and Trainings

School degree

Since 2009 september - Attendee at CNAM (french school for professionals)
  • Evening courses to get an engineer degree "CYC14" - (Multimedia systems and network engineer)
2007 - Military degree in IT security - French Navy
  • Validation after 3 years working and training in IT security
2000 - Military degree in IT programming - French Navy
  • French national education homologation: "BTS informatique de gestion" (NSF code 326t,level III)
1992 - École de Maistrance - French Navy
  • Petty Officer start school

Trainings

Trainings at ANSSI
  • Wifi and security
  • Hardened architecture (practical works)
  • Security on the Internet (theoretical works)

Other trainings
  • 2005 - Windows 2003 Administration & Security
  • 2002 - Java Initiation
  • 2001 - Linux advanced administration
  • 2000 - Introduction to web development

Other

Foreign languages

English

Read, spoken, written

German

School notions

Hobbies

Music: