Damien P.

• Leading the co-creation of Frog Cloud's technical landscape, vision, roadmap, best practices and guidelines.

• CTO as a Service: Helping customers designing, building, running, optimizing, or maintaining their cloud.

• Designing and building our internal tools and our upcoming SaaS/PaaS products.

• Developing Cloud Native Software and Infrastructure solutions centered around Kubernetes.

• Avoiding vendor-lock and adopting a Cloud Neutral approach (!== Cloud Agnostic).

• Using battle-tested OSS solutions to replace costly SaaS products.

• Managing and training our Kubernetes and Software Engineering consultants.

• Constantly improving our engineering environment by integrating OSS solutions or building custom software.

• Stack: k8s, NodeJS, Python, Go, Rust, ecosystem of 100+ OSS or CNCF tools.

• Participating in 15+ projects to oversee software delivery, infrastructure and operations.

• Hands-on role, building customer platforms, internal tools and responding to incidents with my teams.

• Building and managing 3 Platform Engineering Teams in Paris, Lyon and Madrid.

• Promoting DevOps, SecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, from dev to prod, on 15+ projects (~100 developers).

• Holding internal meetups and workshops to raise awareness, and transmit knowledge across teams.

• Supervising 8000+ deployments, 20+ k8s clusters. From dev to prod serving millions of requests daily.

• Participating to RFPs, designing the infrastructure and operations of customer Platforms.

• Monitoring my teams and their KPIs to provide them better training, tackle pain points and drive change.

• Standardizing and industrializing operations across all internal and customer projects.

• R&D to solve long term challenges by designing innovative platform solutions, using OSS and internal tools.

• Optimizing performance and cost of operations. On some platforms reduced hosting cost up to 75%.

• International environment, with different challenges and technical stacks depending on the project.

• Stack: GCP, AWS, On-Premise, k8s, NodeJS, Python, Java, Go, Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane, Grafana, Promtheus, ElasticSearch, Kibana, RabbitMQ, Sentry, DynaTrace, Datadog, and many project dependent techs.

• Designing a Cloud Platform based on a self-managed k8s built using IaC and public cloud infrastructure.

• Building a Cloud Native, distributed, autoscaling Web Scraping Platform running hundreds of workers, ingesting a volume of 500.000 to 1.500.000 webpages per hour.

• Building a BI Platform to aggregate, process, enrich, explore data and visualize it withcreate dashboards.

• Developing a web app with a browser plugin and a mobile version to provide recruiters with automation tools.

• Scraping profiles from different sources (e.g: LinkedIn, github), and enriching data by a ML model.

• Stack: GCP, Terraform, k8s, Helm, python, NodeJS, ES6, ReactJS, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kafka, RabbitMQ