--- name: "Philippe Vienne" title: "Cloud & DevOps Solutions Architect | Former Startup Technical Co-Founder & CTO" subtitle: "15 Years Experience • Specialist in Resilient Multi-Cloud Architectures, Kubernetes & Regulated Environments" location: "Lyon, France (Hybrid / Remote)" email: "Philippe@Vienne.me" website: "https://philippe.vienne.me" linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvienne/" github: "https://github.com/PhilippeVienne" years_experience: 15 degree: "M.Sc. in Engineering — INSA Lyon (Telecommunications & Distributed Systems)" targets: - id: "cloud-providers" title: "Cloud Providers & Hyperscalers" desc: "AWS Solutions Architect Professional & GCP Associate. Architecture evangelism, reference architecture design, developer tooling, and GenAI integration." tags: ["Multi-Cloud", "EKS & GKE", "GenAI & LLMOps", "Landing Zones", "Well-Architected"] - id: "consulting-msp" title: "Consulting Firms & MSPs" desc: "Pragmatic consulting culture: technical co-founder product vision, cloud portfolio operations (30 clients, €330k budget at Skyloud), and FinOps (-15%)." tags: ["Advisory", "FinOps", "Multi-Cloud", "Presales", "Hands-on"] - id: "banking-regulated" title: "Banking & Regulated Sectors" desc: "Proven track record in high-stakes environments: Nuclear (EDF), Aviation (Air France), In-Memory FinTech OLAP (Singapore), Sovereign Cloud (S3NS / SecNumCloud)." tags: ["Nuclear (EDF)", "Air France", "FinTech", "Sovereign S3NS", "OpenShift", "Security by Design"] metrics: - value: "+300%" label: "Cloud Performance" detail: "4x throughput and latency improvement on containerized workloads" - value: "-15%" label: "Operational Costs" detail: "FinOps optimization across large-scale cloud infrastructures" - value: "100+" label: "Kubernetes Clusters" detail: "Designed, secured, and operated in multi-cloud production" - value: "30" label: "Cloud Clients" detail: "Directly managed infrastructure portfolio (€330k budget at Skyloud)" - value: "9x" label: "Certifications" detail: "AWS Solutions Architect Pro, GCP Associate, Terraform Associate, etc." - value: "5 Years" label: "Startup Co-Founder" detail: "Smartfire startup: technical pillar of 2 founders, built SaaS product 0 to 1" certifications: - name: "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional" issuer: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" date: "03/2024" expires: "03/2027" badge: "aws-pro" highlight: true verified: true - name: "Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer" issuer: "Google Cloud" date: "08/2026" expires: "08/2029" badge: "gcp" credential_id: "AssociateCloudEngineer20260802-8-9h1vo0" verified: true - name: "HashiCorp Certified : Terraform Associate (003)" issuer: "HashiCorp" date: "10/2025" expires: "10/2027" badge: "hashicorp" verified: true - name: "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate" issuer: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" date: "03/2024" expires: "03/2027" badge: "aws" verified: true - name: "AWS Certified Developer – Associate" issuer: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" date: "12/2025" expires: "12/2028" badge: "aws" verified: true - name: "AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate" issuer: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" date: "11/2025" expires: "11/2028" badge: "aws" verified: true - name: "AWS Certified AI Practitioner" issuer: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" date: "11/2025" expires: "11/2028" badge: "aws" verified: true - name: "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner" issuer: "Amazon Web Services (AWS)" date: "01/2024" expires: "11/2028" badge: "aws" verified: true - name: "GenAI Level 1" issuer: "Devoteam" date: "10/2025" expires: null badge: "devoteam" verified: true - name: "Sustainable IT Fundamentals" issuer: "Devoteam" date: "09/2025" expires: null badge: "devoteam" verified: true skills_categories: - category: "Cloud & Platforms" skills: ["Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Google Cloud Platform (GCP)", "Microsoft Azure", "Scaleway", "OVHcloud", "Sovereign Cloud (S3NS / SecNumCloud)", "OpenStack"] - category: "Containers & Orchestration" skills: ["Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, RKE)", "Red Hat OpenShift (CaaS)", "Docker", "Helm", "Rancher", "Microservices Architecture", "Multi-Cluster"] - category: "Infrastructure as Code & DevOps" skills: ["HashiCorp Terraform", "CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)", "Gitlab Runner", "Ansible", "Monitoring & Observability", "Disaster Recovery"] - category: "Software Engineering & R&D" skills: ["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Java (Spring, In-Memory OLAP, JavaFX)", "React.js", "Ruby on Rails", "REST APIs", "PostGIS / MapLibre / GIS", "VSCode Web Repackaging"] - category: "Governance & Methodologies" skills: ["Large-Scale Cloud Architecture", "FinOps & Cost Reduction (-15%)", "Security by Design & DevSecOps", "Regulated Sectors (Nuclear, Aviation, Banking)", "Technical Co-Founder (Startup)", "Client Advisory & Presales"] languages: - name: "French" level: "Native" code: "fr" - name: "English" level: "Full Professional / Fluent" detail: "Daily professional usage, international experience in Singapore" code: "en" - name: "Spanish" level: "Elementary proficiency" code: "es" education: - degree: "Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.) — Telecommunications, Services & Uses" institution: "INSA Lyon (Top French Grande École)" period: "2013 - 2018" location: "Lyon, France" details: "Engineering curriculum covering computer science, IP networks, distributed systems, telecommunications, and enterprise software architectures." - degree: "French Baccalauréat in Science (S) — Mathematics Major" institution: "Lycée Simone Veil" period: "2010 - 2013" location: "Valbonne, France" details: "Graduated with Highest Honors (Mention Très Bien)." --- # Professional Summary Accomplished Cloud & DevOps Solutions Architect and former Startup Technical Co-Founder (CTO) with **15 years of technical expertise and software engineering rigor** (INSA Lyon Engineering Graduate). Specialized in the design, automation, and operation of highly resilient, secure, and elastic cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform). Proven track record delivering mission-critical platforms across heavily regulated and high-demand industries: - **Regulated Nuclear Sector** (EDF): Mission-critical migration to OpenShift CaaS, multi-cloud governance integrated with French sovereign cloud S3NS. - **Aviation Sector** (Air France / Atos): Enterprise Kubernetes deployment across private datacenter infrastructure. - **FinTech & Banking Analytics** (ActiveViam Singapore): CI/CD architecture for distributed in-memory OLAP database engines. - **Scale, E-commerce & Startup R&D** (Skyloud, Smartfire): 100+ Kubernetes clusters operated, +300% performance gain, -15% cloud spend, building a SaaS product 0 to 1, and in-browser VSCode repackaging. Multi-certified: AWS (Solutions Architect Professional, Developer, CloudOps, AI Practitioner), Google Cloud (Associate Cloud Engineer), and HashiCorp (Terraform Associate). --- # Professional Experience ### Devoteam | AWS Partner — Most Valuable Cloud & DevOps Architect **Duration:** September 2025 - Present (Permanent / CDI) | **Location:** Lyon, France (Hybrid) *Lead Architect and Cloud/DevOps Consultant driving high-impact technical engagements:* #### Engagement 1: EDF — DIVNUM / PAT Software (Developer Tooling Platform) **Duration:** May 2026 - Present - Integrating Generative AI solutions into the software development life cycle (SDLC). - Accelerating developer workflows and software engineering tooling to maximize productivity, maintainability, and code quality. - Aligning practices with EDF Group's enterprise DevSecOps standards. - **Technologies:** GenAI, DevSecOps, Developer Tooling, Python, CI/CD. #### Engagement 2: Vapérail — Rail Geotracking & Kiro Platform **Duration:** April 2026 - Architected a high-precision railway geotracking tool combining PostGIS, MapLibre, OpenStreetMap, OpenRailMap, and SNCF open data. - Cloud deployment and security hardening on Microsoft Azure. - Concurrently delivered the Kiro internal management platform for Devoteam Lyon. - **Technologies:** Microsoft Azure, PostGIS, MapLibre, GIS, OpenStreetMap, OpenRailMap, REST APIs. #### Engagement 3: EDF — Enterprise IT Expert - OpenShift (Regulated Nuclear Environment) **Duration:** October 2025 - March 2026 (6 months) - Strategic migration of the corporate "Starter Kit WebApp" from public AWS to Red Hat OpenShift (internal EDF CaaS). - Engineered cloud-native architectures compliant with stringent nuclear safety and data governance regulations. - Implemented Security by Design, strict network segregation, and multi-cloud governance uniting AWS and Google Cloud Platform via S3NS (French Sovereign Cloud). - Automated end-to-end continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines targeting OpenShift. - **Technologies:** Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, CaaS, AWS, Google Cloud (S3NS), Security By Design, CI/CD, Regulated Compliance. --- ### Skyloud — Cloud & Kubernetes Architect **Duration:** November 2023 - September 2025 (1 year 11 months) | **Location:** Lyon, France *Managed and optimized cloud infrastructures for 30 clients representing an annual managed infrastructure budget of €330k.* - **Resilience & High Availability:** Designed and operated fault-tolerant, multi-zone, and multi-cloud Kubernetes architectures guaranteeing enterprise SLAs. - **Infrastructure as Code (IaC):** Automated full lifecycle provisioning with HashiCorp Terraform, preventing configuration drift and enabling zero-touch disaster recovery. - **FinOps & Performance:** Reduced client cloud bills by **15%** via instance rightsizing, intelligent autoscaling, and network egress optimizations; accelerated application performance by **4x (+300%)**. - **Production Scale:** Provisioned, monitored, and maintained **over 100 Kubernetes clusters** in live production. - **Technologies:** Amazon Web Services (EKS, RDS, CloudFront, EC2), Microsoft Azure, Scaleway, HashiCorp Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, FinOps. --- ### Smartfire — Technical Co-Founder & CTO (Startup) **Duration:** February 2019 - August 2023 (4 years 7 months) | **Location:** Lyon, France *Technical pillar within a 2-person founding team for nearly 5 years: full SaaS platform development, hands-on developer tooling R&D, full-stack dev, and cloud hosting.* - **Cloud-Native SaaS Product (0 to 1):** Architected and engineered from the ground up an ephemeral cloud development environment platform (Java, Kubernetes, OpenStack, TypeScript). - **Hands-on Deep Tech R&D:** Repackaged Microsoft Visual Studio Code for high-performance in-browser web execution (containerized cloud IDE). - **Web Engineering & Frontend:** Built modern JavaScript libraries and engineered full-featured React.js applications for headless CMS integrations. - **High-Traffic Cloud Hosting:** Designed and operated resilient cloud infrastructure handling high-traffic e-commerce operations (AWS, OVHcloud). - **Cloud Adoption:** Drove technical decisions and hands-on container adoption (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD). - **Technologies:** Kubernetes, Java, OpenStack, TypeScript, React.js, VSCode Web, AWS, OVHcloud, Docker, CI/CD. --- ### Atos & Air France — DevOps Engineer & Distributed Systems **Duration:** October 2018 - January 2019 (4 months) | **Location:** Sophia Antipolis, France *Supported major aerospace flag carrier (Air France) in modernizing on-premises datacenter infrastructure.* - Deployed containerized Kubernetes clusters within Air France's private VMware vSphere datacenters. - Automated provisioning via RKE (Rancher Kubernetes Engine) and unified management using Rancher. - **Technologies:** Kubernetes, Rancher, RKE, VMware vSphere, Private Datacenter, Docker. --- ### ActiveViam — Java Software Engineer & CI/CD **Duration:** February 2018 - August 2018 (7 months) | **Location:** Singapore *Global financial software vendor delivering high-performance in-memory analytics (ActivePivot) to Tier-1 investment banks.* - Implemented continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for institutional enterprise clients. - Authored automated integration test suites and stress-testing frameworks for high-frequency data pipelines. - **Technologies:** Java, ActivePivot, In-Memory OLAP Databases, CI/CD, Jenkins, Financial Tech / Capital Markets. --- ### Moonkey — Infrastructure & Virtualization Intern **Duration:** April 2017 - August 2017 (5 months) | **Location:** Lyon, France - Built containerized virtualization infrastructure using Docker and Rancher. - Developed backend REST APIs for real-time video transcoding and streaming. - **Technologies:** Docker, Rancher, Video Streaming, REST APIs, Linux. --- ### Freelance — Mobile & Web Application Developer **Duration:** December 2015 - August 2016 (9 months) | **Location:** Lyon, France - Engineered cross-platform hybrid mobile applications (HTML5, JavaScript, Ionic). - Built scalable backends and REST APIs using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. - **Technologies:** Ionic, JavaScript, HTML5, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL. --- ### Fédération Française de Spéléologie (FFS) — Scientific Software Developer **Duration:** June 2013 - September 2013 (4 months) | **Location:** Sophia Antipolis, France - Developed a desktop graphical tool in JavaFX to ingest, analyze, and visualize scientific environmental data from subterranean cave sensors. - **Technologies:** Java, JavaFX, Scientific Data Visualization.