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 practitioner, 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 Javascript.
• Software architect and designer, micro-services, object-oriented models, UML.
• Database architect used to relational DB (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and TSDB (Prometheus, ELK)
• Systems administration: UNIX systems, 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).

Professional Background

• 2015 - now: PSNC — PL/SN — Senior Software/Network Engineer
  • Development team leader in the GÉANT pan-European project, coordinating development teams across Europe, roadmap planning, global collaboration in the R&E sector ;
  • 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, PostgreSQL, Javascript, JSON, XML) ;
  • ITIL practitioner (Service Design, Service Operations, Service Transition, CSI).

• 2017 - now: NEAAR — US/SN — perfSONAR Instructor
  • Instructor in perfSONAR workshops for the R&E community in Africa.

• 2000 - 2018: Cassiopea — BE — Funder, Administrator, Sys Admin, Software Engineer
  • 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,

• 2008 - 2015: DANTE — GB — 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),
  • services and applications deployment (MySQL, LDAP, Nagios, MRTG) with high availability,
  • authentication and authorization infrastructure deployment (Shibbolet, SAML, GIdP).

• 2009 - 2011: eShango — SN — 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.

• 2005 - 2008: Aquadev — SN — 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 banking software for the microfinance sector (ADbanking),
  • quality and release management, SCM tools setup (Trac, SVN).

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

• 1998 - 2005: Free Lancer — BE — 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 — BE — Software Engineer
  • software development of network management and monitoring platform (Solaris, C, C++).

Speaker - Instructor

• 2018
  • TechEX 2018 • Automated perfSONAR deployments tutorial and Infrastructure Monitoring Development and Services in GÉANT — Orlando, US
  • SURFnet • perfSONAR tutorial — ASTRON, NL
  • TNC 18 • eduPERT workshop and Performance Measuring and Monitoring — Trondheim, NO
  • AIS 2018 • Internet Measurements Reasearch in Africa (perfSONAR demo) — Dakar, SN
  • WACREN 2018 • Performance Monitoring and Verification in the WACREN network — Lomé, TG
• 2017
  • 2nd WACREN perfSONAR training — Accra, GH
  • TNC 17 • Good Things Come In Small Packages - Creative perfSONAR — Linz, AT
• 2016
  • WACREN 2016 • perfSONAR UI and eduGAIN federated login — Dakar, SN
  • TNC 16 • BoF: perfSONAR on Low-Cost Hardware — Prague, CZ
• 2015
  • Network Monitoring and Management Workshop • TCP and UDP protocols, perfSONAR, multi-domain monitoring, syslog management — Abuja, NG
  • TNC15 • GÉANT Advanced eduPERT Training: perfSONAR, linux TCP tuning — Porto, PT

Studies - Certifications

• 2018
  • ITIL Service Operations and ITIL Service Transition — Axelos, GB
  • TM Forum Frameworx and Business Process Framework fundation — TM Forum, GB
• 2016
  • ITIL Foundation — Axelos, GB
• 1991-1997
  • Civil Engineer (ir - M.Sc.Eng.) in Computer Science — University of Liège, BE

Languages

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

Personal background

• Happy father of 4.
• I love movies, music and cooking and I practice juggling, hiking, running and cycling.