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Romain Boulanger
Romain Boulanger
Cloud Architect with DevSecOps mindset
32 years old, 10 years of experience

Professional Experiences
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Cloud Engineer, Architect and Trainer
 SoKube  June 2023 - Today  Geneva, Switzerland
  • Development of Landing Zone and network architectures in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud;
  • Migration to the Cloud, integrating security, observability and FinOps best practices;
  • Container approach (Docker, Podman or Containerd) and deployment of Kubernetes on-premise (RKE) and in the Cloud (AKS and GKE);
  • Designing reliable CIs (GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps) and implement GitOps practices to avoid drifts;
  • Infrastructure creation with Terraform or OpenTofu, and configuration management with Packer and Ansible;
  • Setting up observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager and Loki;
  • Giving training courses (DevSecOps, FinOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.) and writing training materials;
  • Speaker at various conferences, meetups and technical workshops;
  • Creation of technical and feedback articles.
Cloud Engineer and Trainer
 SFEIR  March 2020 - May 2023  Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
  • Setting up a Landing Zone with Terraform in AWS and Google Cloud;
  • Creation of virtual machine images with Packer and Ansible to aim creating an immutable infrastructure;
  • Configuration of a CI/CD in GitLab CI to check the code syntax with Tflint and various security flaws with Checkov, and finally to deploy all the components of the Landing Zone;
  • Implementation of Cloud security best practices to prevent data exfiltration and reduce the potential attack surface;
  • Monitoring management with Prometheus, Grafana and Dynatrace;
  • Retrieving logs with ELK;
  • Creation of GKE clusters and deployment of Helm charts with Argo CD;
  • Setting up the security part of Kubernetes clusters (e.g Network Policy, Security Context);
  • Maintaining DevOps tools: Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonar, GitLab;
  • Giving training courses in Google Cloud and Kubernetes (CKAD, CKA and CKS).
Cloud Builder
 WeScale  January 2019 - February 2020  Paris, France
  • Implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines, preparation for application containerisation in AWS Fargate with Kaniko and finally, migration to the internal offer in AWS for the SNCF assistant;
  • Setting up the infrastructure-as-code in Azure, aiming high availability and securing the platform for healthcare sector;
  • Providing a tool to deploy different environments with Terraform and Ansible for Canal+’s IT team.
If you’d like to know more about me, feel free to check out my LinkedIn profile.

Education
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Master - Modelling and Management of Organisations
 Centrale Lille  2013 - 2014  Lille, France
Expert in IT and Information Systems
 EPSI Arras  2009 - 2014  Arras, France

Certifications
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Professional Cloud Architect Certification
Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification
Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification
Authorized Trainer
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Kubernetes Trainer
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
GitLab Hero

Blog
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blog.filador.fr is my personal and technical blog aiming to share knowledge through my daily technology watch. Blog posts are currently in French and English and I manage the infrastructure by myself.

 Most viewed articles:
Some good practices to put in place when building Terraform code
Kargo, deploy from one environment to another with GitOps
GitOps approach with Flamingo, the best of both worlds

Conferences and Meetups
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Here’s the list of my previous conferences and meetups as a speaker:

 WeSpeakCloud 2019:
Comment optimiser ma CI/CD avec Drone.io sur k3s ?
 Paris Container Day 2021:
K3S, le Kubernetes allégé construit mes images sans Docker
 Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2023:
Déployer de manière dynamique son code Terraform avec GitLab CI
 Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2024:
Argo et Flux sont dans un Kargo, lequel tombe à l'eau ?
Talks are in French only.

Languages, soft skills and hobbies
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 Languages:
French - Native
English - Full professional proficiency
 Soft skills:
Curious
Passionate
Autonomous
Perfectionist (just a little bit 😁)
 Hobbies:
Gym
Running
Blogging
Science Fiction