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Engineering Lead / CTO / Reliability & Observability Expert
Paris, France
Worldwide
One-year postgraduate degree in physicsAbout me
Long experience in various industry. Working as a freelancer for the last 5 years or so. Solo-entrepreneur. With a passion for technology and those who make it. Prefer to work flexibly in space and time, but also need to meet the actual persons.
Engineering ManagementReliability EngineeringSystem ProgrammingBackend
High-Performance System Architecture
Design and launch of high-performance alerting systems scaling detection to over 1 million events per second, using technologies such as DockerSwarm, GCP, C/C++ and OCaml.
Reliability & Observability Engineering
Career-long focus on reliability and observability practices, including introducing modern observability tooling (Grafana, Graphite, instrumentation) to cross-functional engineering teams.
Technical Leadership & Engineering Management
Experience leading cross-functional teams, including across complex and multi-continent projects at companies such as Google, Booking, and Accedian.
Networking
Directed the design of several stateful Deep Packet Inspection systems achieving industry-leading throughput and flexibility.
Full-Stack Web Infrastructure
Design and deployment of numerous web-based infrastructures and applications using Linux, Apache, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MySQL, version control, on cloud and/or on prem.
Programming Languages
Proficiency in a wide range of languages including C, C++, OCaml, Rust, Python, Go, Java, Perl, and Scheme.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2024
Languages
EnglishGoodFrenchNative speaker
Project history
Various engagements including: rebasing ActivityPod on top of an E2E encrypted local first platform (EU grant, 2026); bootstrapping a network monitoring SaaS for high-volume visualization (2024-2025); technical advisor for a startup merging industrial automation with AI (2023-2024); infrastructure consultant for a large scale data pipeline handling millions of events per second (2023); lead designer for automatic network diagnostics based on constraint solving (2022).
Designed and launched a high-performance alerting system, scaling detection from nominal rates to over 1 million events per second. Technologies used: Swarm, GCP, compiler implementation, Deep-NN, OCaml, C and C++.
Assembled and led a cross-functional team to overhaul the search engine of booking.com's landing page. Introduced modern reliability and observability practices to the provisioning API team. Technologies: Java, Perl, RocksDB, Instrumentation, Grafana, Graphite.