Remi Taffin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Orlando, FL, United States
Toptal member since November 19, 2018
With six years of experience in DevOps, Remi understands that dev and ops teams have fundamentally different goals. Developers want their code released ASAP while sysops want to avoid system failure. He is a problem solver who strives to bridge the gap between both teams by delivering reliable and automated systems, leading to shorter release cycles, better communication, less conflict, lower IT costs, and lets you focus on growing your business.
Portfolio
Experience
- Jenkins - 6 years
- Docker - 6 years
- DevOps - 6 years
- Linux - 6 years
- Python - 6 years
- Terraform - 2 years
- Kubernetes - 1 year
- Helm - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Kubernetes, Docker, Git, MacOS
The most amazing...
...architecture I've migrated to Kubernetes is able to scale to up to 100,000 requests per minute.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity
Ordergroove
- Shifted the culture to empower developers to manage infrastructure with Helm/Kubernetes, and CI/CD with Jenkins Pipelines.
- Moved critical applications from Rackspace to Google Kubernetes Engine without any downtime.
- Managed infrastructure that can support 500,000 API calls daily.
- Passed PCI compliance with Kubernetes.
Senior DevOps Engineer
General Assembly
- Transitioned architecture from Heroku to AWS.
- Built scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available, and secure architecture on production.
- Developed and maintained monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection services.
DevOps Engineer
The Noodle Companies
- Managed uptime and deployments for 25 applications (over 170 AWS servers).
- Automated server provisioning and deployments using infrastructure as code (using Ansible).
- Ensured High Availability regardless of hardware failures, traffic, number of deployments, security attacks or if the site is being scraped.
- Increased maintainability with a better system and performance monitoring.
- Enforced deployment workflows and naming conventions to prevent inconsistencies.
- Identified bottlenecks in release cycles.
- Managed Continuous Integration for multiple release pipelines.
- Improved idempotency, logging, and error management for local environment (using Docker).
- Planned and documented disaster recovery plans.
- Leveraged scripting to build required automation and tools on ad-hoc basis.
iOS Developer Intern
Small Mining Town
- Implemented an iPhone app that allows you to find, ask, buy, or sell second-hand articles, upload pictures and integrates with Facebook using XCode and Objective-C.
- Designed and built PHP API connected.
Web Developer Intern
Zankyou Weddings
- Provided back-end development using PHP and MySQL.
- Troubleshot inconsistencies between development and production.
- Fixed bugs in coordination with the customer service team.
Experience
Open Up Resources
- Researched, designed, and managed tools to automate operational processes
- Launched Pritunl VPN to increase security
- Migrated from Heroku to AWS-managed services
- Discovery, security audit, and documentation of the architecture
Build and Automate High-Volume Lead Pipeline
- Accepted leads from tens of ad campaigns
- Performed thorough validation of the incoming leads
- Integrated to CRM (HubSpot)
- Based on a set of criteria, sold to one or multiple destinations
- Scaled application up and down depending on API Traffic
- Integrated logging technology to monitor error and rejection rate
- Integrated business intelligence platform for business and marketing team to troubleshoot errors in lead funnel
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Ecole Centrale de Lille - Lille, France
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
AWS SysOps Associate
Amazon
AWS Developer Associate
Amazon
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Flask-RESTful, SQLAlchemy, Node.js
Tools
Ansible, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm, Docker Compose, NGINX, Terraform, Vagrant, Logging, Xcode, Chef
Frameworks
Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Selenium, Cypress
Paradigms
Automation, DevOps, Functional Testing, Scrum, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Amazon EC2, Apache2, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MacOS
Storage
Database Administration (DBA), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Languages
Python, Bash, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby
Other
AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Scalability, Monitoring, Google Cloud Build, Web Server (IIS)
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