Florent Baldino

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Work experience

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Strapi

  Jan 2022 - Today4 years 7 months

  Responsible for the reliability, scalability and security of the Strapi Cloud platform and internal services.

  • Set up the observability stack
  • Bootstrapped the on-call program and the incident management process
  • Developed the engine building all customer's Strapi instances on the Strapi Cloud platform
  • Created an internal self-served Developer Platform that allow Strapi engineers to deploy and manage their services using a single file in their repositories
  • Architectured the log collection for the Strapi Cloud platform, ingesting logs for 20k+ Strapi instances
  • Implemented SOC 2 compliance using Vanta and conducted security audits

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Algolia

  Apr 2022 - Dec 20228 months

  Member of a newly created DevTooling team, focused on improving developer experience, efficiency and DevOps adoption.

  • Participated in rotations of the day to day search engine operations
  • Conducted a company wide audit about DevOps and engineering practices
  • Created a Continuous Delivery platform based on Argo CD to improve engineering teams deployment practices

• DevOps Engineer / SRE · Wizbii

  May 2019 - Apr 20222 years 11 months

  Created a self-service, secured and easy to use DevOps platform for the developpers team.

  • Smooth migration of the on-premise infrastructure to Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (100+ microservices, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, ...)
  • Built Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for everything
  • CI/CD with GitLab CI / Helm
  • Trained the team on Kubernetes, GCP, DevOps good practices (logs, 12 factors, resources, ...)
  • Entrypoint for Pentesters during security audits

• Backend Engineer · Wizbii

  May 2017 - Apr 20224 years 11 months

  Developed new features and apps that help more than 7 millions young people to start their careers

  • Migration of a monolith to a micro-services architecture (PHP, Kotlin, Golang, Python)
  • Monitoring of applications & servers (Grafana, Prometheus, ...)
  • Improve Continuous Integration, spreading a culture of tests and code quality in the team
  • DevOps: dev teams support, build process optimizations (Dockerfile, GitLab pipelines, ...)

• Web Engineer · GOPRO

  Sep 2016 - Dec 20163 months

  360° videos (VR) sharing website.

  • Introduced unit tests in the code base
  • Improved the applications performance and reporting tools
  • Self-Hosted GitLab CI
  • Implemented new features for the video encoding server

• Lead Developper · ONISEP

  Jun 2013 - Aug 20163 years 2 months

  Maintained and upgraded various websites of the french ministry of National Education.

  • Trained team members on Git and GitLab
  • Introduced the team to good practices: pull request, code reviews, CI/CD
  • Performed maintenance and updates of Redmine plugins (Ruby On Rails)
  • Added SSO (CAS, SAML) between different National Education applications for all french High Schools students

• Web Developper · Encre Nomade

  Apr 2012 - Jun 20131 year 2 months

  In a startup selling interactives e-books for teenagers

  • coded minigames (HTML 5, Canvas, JavaScript)
  • contributed to the proprietary game development framework
  • improved the e-book creation software and reading tools
  • integrated the Facebook SDK (JavaScript, PHP): login, comments, score sharing

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