Resume

Professional objectives

• Create, develop and manage technologically challenging projects of public interest using the best of my technical and management skills.
• Empower people so they can achieve their personal and professional goals in an efficient and meaningful way by the use of the most appropriate technology.

Skills

• Leadership, Project Management: software development team lead, ITIL certified, ex-CEO of an IT startup (10 people).
• DevOps: deployment automation, continuous integration, release management, packaging and distribution with Ansible, Jenkins, git, Trac and Jira.
• Software developer, proficiency in Perl, Python, Bash, PHP, Java and Groovy, Javascript and JSON manipulation.
• Software architect and designer, micro-services, object oriented models, UML.
• Database architect used to relational DB (MySQL, PostreSQL, Oracle), TSDB (Prometheus, ELK) and NoSQL DB (Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Systems administration: any UNIX system, specialized in Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD and OSX.
• Network Engineer: good knowledge and practical experience of all network layers, strong expertise on TCP and UDP performance troubleshooting (perfSONAR).
• Philosophical: free software and digital civil rights advocate.

Professional Background

• 2011 - now: GÉANT / PSNC — Poland / Senegal — Senior Software/Network Engineer
  • Development team leader in the GÉANT pan-european project, coordinating small development teams across Europe, roadmap planning, global collaboration in the R&E environment ;
  • Participation to the perfSONAR open source project as a team lead, developer and instructor (TCP, UDP, network performance, end-to-end measurements) ;
  • Coordination of the Performance Measurement Platform, a mesh of perfSONAR small nodes in Europe and beyond (Service Management, Operations) ;
  • Deployment automation, test and build management (Ansible, Docker, git, bash) ;
  • Release management, packaging and distribution for Debian and CentOS (Jenkins, git, bash, perl, ruby, apt, rpm) ;
  • Architecture, design and development of micro-services (Python, Perl, Java, MySQL, PotgreSQL, XML, JSON) ;
  • ITIL practitioner (Service Design, Service Operations, Service Transition, CSI).

• 2017 - now: NEAAR — US / Senegal — perfSONAR Instructor
  • Instructor in NEAAR (Networks for European, American, and African Research) funded perfSONAR workshops and trainings for the R&E community in Africa.

• 2000 - 2018: Cassiopea — Belgium — Sys Admin, Software Engineer, Administrator
  • system administration for a small scale ISP, administering 12 servers (linux, dns, load-balancer, web, ftp, mail, mysql, psql, ldap),
  • software architecture, design and development, many contributions to open source projects (PHP, bash, perl, python, MySQL),
  • project management, business analyst, external and customer relations, user support,
  • creation, planning, management and administration of a nonprofit ISP targeting the non profit sector, president from 2000 to 2006,

• 2009 - 2011: eShango — Senegal — Chief Executive Officer
  • general management of the company (10 people),
  • supervision of the R&D department (software development and IT services for micro-finance), including leading the architectural design and defining the software development processes,
  • supervision of the sales department,
  • company incorporation in Senegal, head of finance and administrative department, day to day business, human resources management,
  • business plan, financials, equity build up, together with 2 partners.

• 2008 - 2010: DANTE — UK — Systems Engineer, Team Lead
  • perfSONAR MDM development team lead: project management, development best practices, R&E collaboration (GEANT),
  • web application development: network circuits and assets database, network monitoring systems, sysadmin tasks automation (PHP, Python, Java, MySQL, bash),
  • web services and network applications deployment (MySQL, LDAP, Nagios, MRTG) with high availability setup,
  • authentication and authorization infrastructure deployment (Shibbolet, SAML, GIdP).

• 2005 - 2008: Aquadev — Senegal — Lead Senior Software Engineer
  • team leader (7 persons) in Dakar, Senegal: planning, resources management, reporting, training and competitive intelligence,
  • ADbanking software development (PHP, Javascript, XML, XSLT, PostgreSQL, bash, Eclipse),
  • product requirements definition and architecture design of a banking software for the micro finance sector (ADbanking),
  • quality and release management, SCM tools setup (Trac, SVN).

• 2000 - 2005: BELNET — Belgium — Systems & Network Engineer
  • administration of multiple Internet servers of a national scale ISP (linux, Solaris, dns, web, ftp, mail, nntp, snmp),
  • web application development: network monitoring system, domain name registration system, sysadmin tasks automation (PHP, Perl, MySQL, bash),
  • configuration and operation of a national scale IP network, (Cisco, Juniper),
  • participation to RIPE IP network measurements working groups and workshops.

• 1998 - 2005: Belgium — Free Lance Software Engineer
  • databases and web development (PHP, MySQL, 4thDimension),
  • administration of networks and servers (linux, MacOS, web, ftp, mail, dns, printing).

• 1997 - 1998: Alcatel Bell — Belgium — Software Engineer
  • software development of a network management and monitoring platform (Solaris, C, C++).

Speaker - Instructor

• 2018
  • TNC 18 • eduPERT workshop — GÉANT, Trondheim, Norway
  • TNC 18 • Performance Measuring and Monitoring (presentation) — GÉANT, Trondheim, Norway
  • AIS 2018 • Internet Measurements Workshop — NEAAR, Dakar, Senegal
  • WACREN 2018 • Performance Monitoring and Verification in the WACREN network (presentation) — NEAAR / GÉANT, Lomé, Togo
• 2017
  • Second WACREN perfSONAR training — NEAAR, Accra, Ghana
  • TNC 17 • Good Things Come In Small Packages — Creative perfSONAR (presentation) • GÉANT, Linz, Austria
• 2016
  • WACREN 2016 • perfSONAR UI and eduGAIN federated login (presentation) — WACREN, Dakar, Senegal
  • TNC 16 • BoF: perfSONAR on Low-Cost Hardware — GÉANT, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2015
  • Network Monitoring and Management Workshop • TCP and UDP protocols, perfSONAR, multi-domain monitoring, syslog management — WACREN, Abuja, Nigeria
  • TNC15 • GÉANT Advanced eduPERT Training: perfSONAR, linux TCP tuning — GÉANT, Porto, Portugal

Studies - Training

• 2018
  • ITIL Service Operations — GÉANT, Cambridge
• 2016
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate — GÉANT, Cambridge
• 2010
  • ITIL v3 introduction — GÉANT, Poznan
• 2003
  • IPv6 — Telindus, Leuven
  • DNSSEC — RIPE NCC, Amsterdam
  • Managing youth camps in south countries — Quinoa, Brussels
• 2002
  • Routing essentials, ospf, bgp, multicast — Arpnet, Brussels
• 2001
  • Juniper routing — Juniper, Amsterdam
  • Ici ou ailleurs, que faire ? — ITECO, Brussels (training for development cooperation)
  • Hostmaster, IP resource management — RIPE NCC, London
• 1998
  • Telecommunication Concepts — Bell Education Centre, Antwerpen
• 1991-1997
  • Civil Engineer (ir - M.Sc.Eng.) in Computer Science — University of Liège
  • Study: Conception d’un système automatique d’analyse de séquences de peptides — Professor E. De Pauw

Languages

• French: mother tongue.
• English: fluent.
• Spanish: intermediate level.
• Dutch: basic level.

Personal background

• Scouting from 1981 to 1994, participation in international youth cooperation projects with Quinoa in Senegal (2000) and Guatemala (2003, project lead)
• Interested and concerned about ecology and citizen life, globalization issues.
• Direction, animation and engineering of a weekly local radio broadcasting from 1988 to 1993.
• I love movies, music, cooking and juggling and I like hiking, running, cycling and Tai Chi.