Philippe Vienne

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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)."
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# 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).

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# 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.

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### 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.

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### 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.

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### 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.

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### 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.

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### 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.

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### 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.

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### 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.