Kyâne Pichou

Senior Devops Engineer

DevOps, cloud architect, SRE (choose the term you prefer) with over 6 years of experience, since 2017.
My professional journey has allowed me to work on a variety of infrastructure projects, ranging from the cloud to bare-metal, within organizations and teams of different sizes. I've implemented numerous containerized environments using Docker or Kubernetes, and deployed several scalable platforms on these environments (web, Kafka, Elasticsearch). I place a strong emphasis on automation and reliability, making tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer fundamental components of my toolkit.
Additionally, for a few months, I undertook various pedagogical missions (as an independent contractor): quality control for a developer training program, student support, and the creation of training materials.

Experience

Senior Devops

Phenix

As the first and only DevOps at Phenix, I am the versatile Swiss Army knife across development teams. I've established a shared infrastructure based on AWS with a primary focus on Kubernetes. My role is to continuously improve this infrastructure, assist in the implementation of tools (CI/CD with Github Actions, migration to Docker), and ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of our platforms. Additionally, I contribute to cross-team initiatives such as creating a business continuity plan, a robust security policy, and developing the roadmap.

March 2021 - Today

Educational consultant

Freelance

As a freelancer, I contributed to pedagogical missions for training platforms Studi, Openclassrooms, and Librecours. My role involved overseeing the quality of a complete developer training program, monitoring and supporting students' progress, and creating course materials (written and video) for introductory courses in computer science and Linux.

July 2020 - January 2021

Ops Engineer

Dawex

Within the infrastructure team, I participated in the maintenance and evolution of the cloud infrastructure (AWS), platform monitoring, and security. Notably, I implemented a complete stack for centralizing and managing logs from our various Kubernetes clusters, using Elasticsearch and Kibana.

January 2019 - May 2020

DevOps

Synolia

Within the systems team, I introduced Ansible for automating the configuration of client's servers and managing the internal machine park.

November 2018 - January 2019

Site Reliability Engineer - Apache Kafka

OVH

Setup and administration of internal Kafka clusters at OVH. I ensured service continuity, monitoring, metric reporting, and ongoing product improvement.

October 2017 - October 2018

Technical volunteer

Picasoft

Co-founder of this associative hosting provider, I participated in setting up an infrastructure (based on Docker) aimed at offering various online services, awareness events, and the creation of training weeks for other students.

September 2016 - September 2020

Skills

Environments
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • Amazon Web Services
  • GNU/Linux (Debian)
Tools
  • Git, Gitlab, Github
  • Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Packer
  • Helm, Jsonnet
  • Datadog
Softwares
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana, Victoria Metrics
  • Elasticsearch
Languages
  • Python, Bash
  • Golang
Other
  • Teaching, Popularization
  • English (TOEIC 955/990)

Education

Engineering degree in computer science

UTC
Specialized in system and network administration.
September 2014 - July 2017

Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications and Networks

University of Savoie
Courses of sysadmin/networking, telecommunications, signal processing and monitoring
September 2013 - May 2014

Technical degree - Electricity and electronics

IUT 1 - Grenoble
Specialized in automatism and networks.
September 2011 - June 2013

Hobbies

Computer science and system administration enthusiast, I enjoy exploring new tools and sharing my knowledge. I dedicate myself to administering my own online services for personal use, I have a particular affinity for free software and privacy protection.

Rather curious, I spend a lot of time reading popular science, economics, or political materials. And when I'm not in front of my screen or playing a game, I'm probably on my bike.