Romain Guilmont - DevOps Engineer
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Lead DevOps with years of experience in deployment and maintenance of several platforms and products.
In my daily work, i interact with different teams (Data Scientists, Developers, Customer Success, Data Engineers and etc.), to overcome challenges we face with elegant technical solutions; following DevOps principles.
I’m 34 years old, actually living in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne, France).
- 💻 I’m very enthusiast about the DevOps world in general, very curious and continuously learning
- 👾 I enjoy videogames, especially retrogaming ( from early 80s video games, with a preference for computers and handheld )
- 🎸 I play the guitar
Spoken languages
- French ( Native )
- Spanish ( Fluent )
- English ( Fluent )
- Haitian Creole ( Average )
Soft Skills
Because it’s as much important as technical skills…
- Conflict Resolution: Maintaining peace and resolving conflicts in diverse team settings. I’m very sensible about that. Successful projects are done in safe environments 🙂
- Cultural Awareness: I had the change to work with individuals from various cultural backgrounds, fostering inclusivity and collaboration.
- Teamwork: Proven ability to work harmoniously with all kinds of people, contributing to a positive team environment.
- Sense of humor: I think i have some sort of sense of humor, sometimes. But hey, ask people who know me what they think of my various video/photo montage. By the way, it’s often a good way to resolve conflicts and lower down pressure of daily work.
Technical Skills
I pretty much hate the long list of technologies, but here are some keywords.
I strongly believe that beyond the technologies, the ability to adapt and learn quickly by having strong basis in development, infrastructure and devops world in general is Key. Here’s an overview :
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Molecule, CI/CD systems from Gitlab, Github… , Helm, CDK8S, ArgoCD… ( Pulumi coming soon 🙂 )
VCS
Git, Gitlab/Github (for merge requests, code reviews…), Github (Open source contributions following project guidelines)
Development
Golang, Python, Javascript, Typescript, shell, and (some) Scala… ( one day, i’ll learn Rust. For sure. )
Orchestration and Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC…), Azure, Rancher ( RKE ), LXC, Proxmox…
Databases/Message Broker
MariaDB, ElasticSearch (and OpenSearch), MongoDB, Redis, Vault, RabbitMQ, Apache Druid, NATS, Milvus ( Vector data store )…
Monitoring and Testing
Prometheus, ELK, Graylog, Grafana, Zabbix, Cypress, Cloudwatch… And the tools to fetch and transform ( fluentd or - my prefered choice - vector )…
Operating Systems
Linux (from Debian/Ubuntu to Archlinux), Windows Server…
Experience
Ask for the Moon - Lead DevOps/SRE
August 2023 - Present
Lead DevOps/SRE for Ask For The Moon (SaaS and On Premise) Product.
- Ensures resiliency, scalability, and security of the product with a focus on portability without third-party hosting.
- Designed SaaS/On Premise product with strong emphasis on stability, scalability, and resiliency.
- Software architecture with big refactoring of the product with microservices architecture ( following SOLID principles, event-driven )
- Enforced best practices in software development, prioritizing security and code quality.
- Developed and deployed various microservices in Javascript and Python for AI serving ( self-hosted LLM ) and other purposes.
XBTO - DevOps
August 2022 - June 2023 Worked as part of the infrastructure team, focusing on platform stability and low latency.
- Designed, deployed, automated, and monitored solutions tailored to business needs.
- Managed various environments, including monolith app redesigns and new Python projects, with an emphasis on cloud-agnostic approaches and centralized monitoring and logging.
- Designed a multi-region, high availability, cloud-agnostic NATS supercluster.
- The contract was terminated due to financial constraints faced by the organization, resulting in a workforce restructuring.
Besedo - DevOps/Lead DevOps
2016 - August 2022
Led the infrastructure for Implio, an all-in-one moderation product, ensuring scalability, resilience, and robust monitoring.
- Collaborated with the Data Science team to industrialize their models for production.
- Deployed and migrated live services including Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Vault, and MongoDB.
- Versioned platform infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Kubernetes manifests in Git.
- Automated service deployments, including Machine Learning models.
- Established platform observability by setting up monitoring and gathering inputs from logs and metrics.
- Developed tools to automate processes, enhance monitoring, and facilitate developers’ daily tasks.
ioSquare - DevOps/System Administrator
2012 - 2016
Developed, industrialized, and managed the infrastructure for Machine Learning services focused on automated content moderation.
- Collaborated with the Data Science team to deploy tools and build proof of concept projects.
- Managed the infrastructure, primarily bare metal with OpenVZ/LXC containers on Proxmox, supporting production and Data Science needs.
- Utilized Puppet and Git for Infrastructure as Code.
- Automated deployments and testing processes.
- Monitored services and application metrics.
- Implemented Proof of Concepts and tools in collaboration with the Data Science team, primarily using Python.
- Developed internal tools in Python and Groovy to scrape, organize, and trim large datasets.
Info
ioSquare was bought by Besedo in 2016, so we went from a small team of around 5 people to a much bigger company
Education
Important
That’s not a big surprise, but i learned way more during my jobs ( thanks the chance i had to integrate a Startup early in my career )
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Scala Online Courses
FP-tower
2021 - Present -
Licence - 3rd Year Licence ASR (System and Network Administration)
Université d’Evry
2011 - 2012 -
DUT - DUT Computer Science
IUT Fontainebleau
2009 - 2011
Contact
Feel free to contact or follow me
- 💻 Github
- 🟦 LinkedIn
- 📧 Email :
[email protected]