Systems & Platform Engineering
that ships.
Most platform engineering is slide decks and wishful thinking. I build infrastructure, observability, and tooling that teams actually use.
Let's ship.Most platform engineering is slide decks and wishful thinking. I build infrastructure, observability, and tooling that teams actually use.
Let's ship.Infrastructure your developers won’t hate.
Backend that does what it says on the tin.
Getting people to actually use the tools you built.
Romain. I’ve spent over a decade in the trenches, more than half in the tech industry. Infrastructure, automation, backend, the works.
Real talk: the best infrastructure is the one you forget exists. No heroics at 3 AM, no weekend firefighting, just boring, reliable systems that get out of your way. I’ll take boring over clever any day. A dashboard nobody opens isn’t observability, it’s expensive shelfware.
Outside of this, I play video games and trading card games, turn any piece of hardware lingering around into a linux compute station for my ever growing homelab, and go out with friends. Kinda cliché, but it's enough for me to have fun.
I live in France. Any timezone, French or English. If your team spends more time fighting your platform than shipping features, we should talk.
Infrastructure & cloud · Migration
Leading migration from a legacy Kubernetes platform to a simpler container/serverless architecture, codified with Terraform and optimized for cost and operability.
Platform engineering · 3 teams, 20 engineers
Designed and executed the full observability strategy: Terraform-provisioned OTLP setup, OpenTelemetry wrappers in Go and Python, Grafana/Splunk integrations and team-by-team adoption. Every service gained structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics for the first time.
DevEx · CLI
Identified friction around database access and delivered self-service CLI tooling for dump, anonymisation, and restore workflows. Became the standard approach for onboarding and local development.
Billing · Compliance
Designed and delivered the full government integration python microservice: API + CSV/FTP processing pipeline. Generated €100K+ annually with 99% uptime and eliminated all manual processing previously handled by customer support.
Process automation · RPA & LLM
Delivered 10+ automation bots end-to-end, integrated with internal APIs, LLM services, and multi-tenant databases. Among the first deployment of LLM-powered automation in a major telecom group. Built an automation literacy program for non-technical staff that ensured high adoption.
Client names and private system details stay off the open web. For serious conversations, redacted artifacts can be shared in a controlled way.
Currently full-time Platform Engineer in the energy sector. If your infra is creaky, your observability is vibes-based, or your tooling makes developers rage-quit, reach out.
This page is the practical version. Formal CV available on request; full career history available on LinkedIn.
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