Who I am
I am a senior software development engineer with 20 years of experience in various domains, mainly digital signature, Public Key Infrastructure and Cloud Native. I love designing softwares, sharing knowledge and best practices with development teams to help them build better products.
Experiences
Developer Productivity team
- Develop and promote internal tools along with best practices for the backend teams (AWS / Serverless micro-services / typescript)
- Collaborate with the architecture team to define the backend reference architecture
Led the Authentication team of 7 people. The team was responsible for:
- Extracting the authentication module from a Rails monolith, developing and deploying the new authentication stack
- Ensuring seamless migration of the customer authentication database
- Development of a platform to automatically run E2E tests of Kubernetes in order to verify the integration with Docker Entreprise.
- Work on the certification of Docker Entreprise as a CNCF Certified Kubernetes platform.
- Docker Compose maintainer / support engineer
- Docker App developer, worked on the CNAB specification conformance for Docker App
As the lead developer of the BigSea team, I was responsible for the migration of the proof of concept product from Apache Storm to a production-ready Kubernetes-based application that creates sociological, demographic, and behavioral profiles.
- Developed and implemented new features using Java, Hadoop, and Spark
- Successfully migrated the application to a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS EC2 instances
Manager of the Arkena QA team: 6 engineers in Paris and Stockholm
Design and setup the new Arkena CDN validation platform. Automation of the CDN components validation process
Lead of the quality assurance team. Management of the build environments (Windows, Linux, OSX) and tools for the dev teams. Development of the software quality guides and quality metrics analysis.
Technical lead of digital signature product suite. Manager of a development team of 4 people
Development of libraries and servers applications in the digital signature and Public Key Infrastructure fields. Most develoment was made with Java and C.
Extra Activities
Creation of Kubernetes Community Days France 2023, a conference focused on Cloud-Native and DevOps, sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which took place in Paris on March 7th, 2023.
Creation of a non-profit organisation to promote Cloud Native concepts, technologies and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. We organize one meetup per month on meetup.com.
Member of the team organizing the Paris JUG monthly meetup. Since 2016 I am responsible of the Young Blood, the Paris JUG January event where some unexperienced speakers are coached and invited to do a 15 minute talk in front of the JUG public.
Talks & Conferences
Une histoire de la machine de chiffrement Enigma et des attaques contre elle effectuées en Pologne et en Grande-Bretagne pendant la seconde guerre mondiale (Slides)
Workshop details: https://github.com/jcsirot/docker-app-workshop-dc19