Linux & Automation Engineer | Ansible · Terraform | Regulated Finance | On-prem AI (RAG, LLM)

Linux systems engineer specialising in automation and Infrastructure as Code for regulated environments.

For the past four years I have run Linux engineering for Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager: 500 physical servers and around 1,500 virtual machines under internal control and audit requirements. As the team's automation lead, I moved the estate from manual, per-server configuration to infrastructure fully described in Ansible and versioned in Git, with compliance playbooks that verify every server against the code baseline and correct drift automatically. Change control and the audit trail live in the repository.

Before that: OpenStack and AWS infrastructures provisioned with Terraform, a cross-architecture migration from IBM Power to Intel carried out with production maintained, and personal health data under strict GDPR. I also know the hardware layer — HP ProLiant fleets, firmware, BIOS/UEFI, iLO, boot from SAN — and KVM, Proxmox and Ceph at platform level.

I work on generative AI deployed on premises: hybrid retrieval (pgvector, BM25, Reciprocal Rank Fusion) over internal technical documentation, LoRA and DoRA adapters trained under memory constraints and published on Hugging Face, LLM inference serving and quantitative evaluation. That combination suits organisations that want generative AI but cannot send their data to a public model.

Freelance through my French company. Remote. Available from 2 January 2027. English, French, Spanish, Mandarin.