Thibault DESAULES

Profile

Experienced Experienced Lead DevOps, Site Reliability, and Platform Engineer with a focus on open source and web. I enjoy collaborating with development teams to tackle infrastructure challenges and provide tools that enable smooth application growth. Committed to continuous improvement, I contribute to project success by optimizing processes and fostering innovation.
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Experience

Company: Devoteam (digital consulting)

Paris, FR

Assignment : Thales (industry), Société Générale (banking)

Lead DevOps / Site Reliability / Platform Engineer

Oct 2021 - Present

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, I served as a technical lead in Agile squads, mentoring DevOps engineers, making key technical decisions, and designing architectures.
Achievements :
  • Mentored devops team, advised on product and best practices.
  • Automated infrastructure deployment using Ansible and Terraform on private cloud.
  • Used GitOps approach to deploy applications with Flux on Kubernetes.
  • Created GitLab and Jenkins pipelines for Docker, C#, Python and Java apps.
  • Developed Prometheus exporter in Python and a FastAPI-based automation API.
  • Created observability stack using Grafana and Elastic Stack.
  • Managed applications, virtual and Kubernetes infrastructure in production.
  • kubernetes
  • docker
  • gitlab
  • jenkins
  • ansible
  • terraform
  • grafana
  • elastic stack

Company: Sodexo (facilities)

Paris, FR

Assignment : Pluxee (facilities)

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2020 - Oct 2021

As a DevOps Engineer, I supported development squads with architecture and deployment for Angular and .NET products in a private cloud environment.
Achievements :
  • Managed infrastructure as code with Puppet on Windows/Linux.
  • Redesigned Jenkins pipelines for .NET and Angular applications.
  • Designed resilient infrastructure for web apps.
  • Created an observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana and Graylog.
  • Provided advanced support to development teams.
  • puppet
  • jenkins
  • sonarqube
  • graylog
  • prometheus
  • grafana
  • powershell
  • bash

Site Reliability Engineer

Mar 2019 - Jan 2020

As a Site Reliability Engineer, I ensured high availability, managed production incidents, debugging, and implemented a disaster recovery plan.
Achievements :
  • Managed production infrastructure, monitoring, performance, and availability of web apps.
  • Handled production incidents for development teams.
  • Built highly available infrastructure with HAProxy, Corosync, Pacemaker.
  • Developed a multi-site recovery plan for continuity.
  • Managed servers on VMware split between a private data center and OVH cloud.
  • haproxy
  • apache
  • nginx
  • iis
  • puppet
  • prometheus
  • grafana
  • gitlab
  • bash

Company: Omnitech (digital consulting)

Paris, FR

Assignment : Equans (industry), Awak'It (communication), Oppic (public), Guy Hoquet (real estate)

Product Owner

Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

As a Product Owner in a 2-person team, I managed a product for collecting and analyzing user data.
Achievements :
  • Maintained strong client and vendor relationships.
  • Enriched and prioritized backlog features and led workshops.
  • Integrated data with Azure Data Lake and PolyBase.
  • jira
  • trello
  • azure data factory
  • sqlserver
  • polybase
  • tableau
  • power bi

Systems Engineer

Sep 2012 - Oct 2018

As a Systems Engineer, I managed infrastructure, observability and handled web app publication.
Achievements :
  • Managed Windows and Linux servers.
  • Implemented ELK platforms for infrastructure observability and KPI reporting.
  • Provided Level 2/3 support for client infrastructures.
  • apache
  • nginx
  • iis
  • netscaler
  • powershell
  • bash
  • ELK
  • windows
  • linux

Company : Karavel (travel)

Paris, FR

Assignment : Promovacances (travel)

Systems Administrator

Sep 2010 - Sep 2012

As a systems, I was managing the infrastructure and delivering production applications.
Achievements :
  • Managed Linux servers setup, ensuring stability and performance.
  • Led a proof of concept for Splunk to enhance insights for production applications.
  • linux
  • apache
  • tomcat
  • java
  • haproxy
  • deployit
  • elasticsearch
  • splunk
  • nodejs

Education

Master's Degree, Paris Versailles University (2013)

Systems Engineer

Bachelor's Degree, Paris Créteil University (2010)

Networks, Systems, and Security Administrator

Associate Degree, Robert Doisneau High School (2008)

IT technician

High School Diploma, Notre Dame de Sion High School (2006)

Industrial Sciences and Technologies
photo of me

Skills

    • Infra As Code
    • Puppet
    • Ansible
    • Terraform
      Orchestration
    • Kubernetes
    • Nomad
      CI / CD / GitOps
    • Gitlab
    • Github
    • Jenkins
    • SonarQube
    • Artifactory
    • Harbor
    • Trivy
    • Syft
    • Grype
    • Snyk
    • Helm
    • Kustomize
    • Flux
      Load Balancer
    • HAProxy
    • Traefik
    • NetScaler
    • NGINX
    • Envoy
      Observability
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Graylog
    • Elastic Stack
      Scripting
    • Powershell
    • Python
    • Bash
      Web Server
    • IIS
    • Apache
    • NGNIX
      Container
    • Docker
    • Containd
    • Podman
    • Kaniko
    • Buildah
    • Skopeo
      Programming (devops)
    • Python
    • Java
    • Javascript
    • Go
    • C#
    • Nodejs
    • Svelte
    • Deno
    • Vuejs
    • Angular
    • Hugo
    • .NET
      Operating Systems
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS
      Others
    • CoreDNS
    • Consul
    • Vault
    • Corosync / Pacemaker
    • RabbitMQ
    • NATS
    • Jira
    • Confluence

Languages

  • French Native
  • English B2 (advanced)
  • Korean (beginner)

Certifications

  • Kubernetes Cloud Native Associate
  • GitLab Professional Services Engineer
  • Terraform Associate
  • OVH Solution Architect
  • Azure AZ-900
  • Agile Scrum Foundation

Interests

  • Home Automation
  • Embedded Hardware
  • Do It Yourself
  • Technologies
  • Audio
  • Cooking / Food
  • Video Games
  • Photo
  • Science Fiction
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Yoga
  • Travel