Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity
2019 - PRESENTOrdergroove- 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.
Technologies: Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Python, Terraform, Helm, KubernetesSenior DevOps Engineer
2018 - 2019General 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.
Technologies: Chef, Terraform, Docker, Ruby on Rails (RoR)DevOps Engineer
2014 - 2018The 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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Node.js, PythoniOS Developer Intern
2013 - 2013Small 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.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP, Xcode, Objective-CWeb Developer Intern
2012 - 2012Zankyou Weddings- Provided back-end development using PHP and MySQL.
- Troubleshot inconsistencies between development and production.
- Fixed bugs in coordination with the customer service team.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP
Remi Taffin
Software Developer in Orlando, FL, United States
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.
Remi is now available for hire
Portfolio
- OrdergrooveContinuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Python, Terraform...
- General AssemblyChef, Terraform, Docker, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
- The Noodle CompaniesAmazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Node.js, Python
Availability
Part-time
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.
Employment
Experience
- Open Up Resources
- Part-time freelancer to help the engineering team design and scale up their infrastructure
- 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
- Built API hub to support 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
Skills
Frameworks
Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Selenium, CypressLibraries/APIs
Flask-RESTful, SQLAlchemy, Node.jsTools
Ansible, Jira, Jenkins, Git, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm, Docker Compose, NGINX, Terraform, Vagrant, Logging, Xcode, ChefParadigms
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), MacOSStorage
Database Administration (DBA), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)Other
AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Scalability, Monitoring, Google Cloud Build, Web Server (IIS)Languages
Python, Bash, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby
Education
- Master's Degree in Computer Science2010 - 2015Ecole Centrale de Lille - Lille, France
Certifications
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer ProfessionalAPRIL 2018 - APRIL 2021AWS
- AWS SysOps AssociateFEBRUARY 2018 - APRIL 2020Amazon
- AWS Developer AssociateDECEMBER 2017 - APRIL 2020Amazon
