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Hey and welcome ! My name is Thomas Martin, and I’m a 28 years old French CS engineer with 5+ years of experience working on diverse projects (Web, Mobile, System, Cloud, etc).

I am dedicated to providing you with specialized expertise in areas such as deployment strategy, release management, and optimizing your infrastructure’s ability to adapt cost-effectively to current and future demands.

Passionate about Cloud, Solutions Architecture, Web & Mobile dev, DevOps philosophy, tech watch and music.

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MY CV

EXPERIENCE

Senior Platform Reliability Engineer
Qonto · January 2024 - Present
Achievements
Senior SRE position with responsibilities around reducing incidents MTTR and their blast radius, while improving overall platform’s reliability at low costs.
- Designed and implemented a new multi-clusters Kubernetes platform built from the ground up with PCI-DSS compliance, high resiliency, and a comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) strategy.
- Led the design and implementation of Canary deployments, enabling automatic rollbacks and significantly reducing incident MTTR and blast radius
- Promote a “Platform as a Product” philosophy to enhance self-service capabilities and minimize team intervention in repetitive tasks.
- Reduced maintenance lead time by 60% around our Kubernetes clusters configuration through innovative strategies involving Terraform, Helm and ArgoCD
- Improved developer velocity and platform reliability through initiatives around Kubernetes deployment workflows and internal APIs; using Helm Charts, ArgoCD, custom orchestration APIs, and Terraform modules.
- Prevent incidents and help with their mitigation with a on-point observability strategy (Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Loki, ELK, etc)
DevSecOps Architect
Respond.io · July 2023 - January 2024
Achievements
[Unfortunately short experience as I had to resign due to personal matters.]
- In charge of the tooling strategy to enhance platform’s availability (AWS scale-in, scale-out and deployment strategies)
- Spearheaded cloud cost optimization initiatives, reducing monthly expenses by 10%
- Architect of the IAC strategy (Terraform, GitOps) enabling scalable and consistent deployments
- Responsible for the platform security strategy, focusing on audit logs and threat modeling
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Amadeus · 2021 - July 2023
Achievements
Responsible for the app deployment strategy, Azure migration, and driving a team shift to develop reliable system-oriented tooling.
- Spearheaded the Ansible project and Managed the migration from Tower to AWX, cutting costs and enhancing automation flexibility.
- Led the design and development of Deployment-as-Code solutions, reducing deployment times and ensuring consistency.
- Led a team-shift to develop reliable system-oriented tooling, reducing toil and mainteance lead time.
- Provided cloud architecture guidance during a major Azure migration, reducing risks and ensuring best practices.
R&D Engineer
Divalto · 2018-2021
Achievements
- Design and implementation of cutting-edge features on a legacy ERP project
- Work on synergies between the ERP and external payment services (PayPal, PayZen, Mollie, etc)
- Architecture, design and implementation of a complete solution involving an Outlook add-in that allows to to interact with the ERP remotely
- Configuration and development (from scratch) of a complete Jennkins CI/CD (Cloud + onPremise)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERIENCE

@ Primitivo

Project Leader & Solution Architect (Consultant)
September 2022 - September 2023
Architect and Project Manager for Hara on a CRM project intended for non-profits, leading a team of 3 developers.
Achievements
-Led product development by conducting business, marketing, and functional analysis to define the roadmap.
- Established tech golden paths and built a dev-friendly platform accelerating TTM while ensuring a secure and reliable solution.
- Mentored junior developers on software engineering principles (DDD, TDD, SOLID, CI/CD), which elevated the overall quality of backend services.
- Designed a cost-effective and reliable AWS infrastructure using React, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Solution Architect (Web, Mobile & Ops Consultant)
August 2021 - March 2022
Responsible for both Dev & Ops strategy to improve products’ (web & mobile) reliability in terms of availability, costs and maintainability.
Achievements
- Improved performance and maintainability of a legacy Ruby on Rails app with TDD and Hexagonal Architecture.
- Led the migration from native Android & iOS apps to a unified Flutter codebase, speeding up releases.
- Prototyped cloud deployment strategies with automated CI/CD, improving deployments efficiency and reliability.
- Modernized infrastructure management using Ansible, Terraform, and Packer for better consistency.
Co-Founder & CTO
2019-2021
Project manager & FullStack developer on various application projects, targeting students and bars in Strasbourg.
Achievements
- Led the products development with a tailored methodology, and a roadmap aligned with customer needs, that allowed us to ship 3 products into beta phase in less than 6 months.
- Actively participated in software design and implementation decisions to ensure code’s approachability and fasten releases lifecycle.
- Designed and maintained the developer platform to allow to safely develop, test and ship features.
- Designed a cost optimized AWS architecture while taking into account scale-in to ensure the best reliability at the lowest cost.

STUDIES

Software and System Engineer diploma
UTBM - Belfort, France
Complete CS engineer school curriculum. Studies made in apprenticeship @ Divalto.
Exchange semester (Mast. CS)
RTU - Riga, Latvia
. Service-Oriented Architecture
. Project Management
. Developments of Intelligent Software Systems
. Business Analytics / Data Mining
. Advanced Databases
Mechanical Engineering
INSA - Strasbourg, France
Lean Management, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamic & more