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Benoit PERSON

Senior SRE and Data Engineering Lead with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at Google, AWS, and Automattic.

work experience

SRE

at Google, supporting Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and internal platform variants. Developing SLOs, building monitoring solutions, and leading shared infrastructure refactors.

Lead Data Engineer

for Automattic, owning the data infrastructure and architecture: Kafka, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch supporting all products — WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Day One, Simplenote, and more.

Lead Software Engineer

for Kin Calendar, a Sunrise successor: web app, iOS app, REST APIs, and sync services integrated with Google Calendar, Outlook, Office365, GitHub, Trello, and more.

Software Development Engineer

for Amazon Web Services, mapping network topologies and building related data ETL pipelines.

Mobile Software Development Engineer Intern

for Applidium on MyCanal and RATP, plus a research project on procedural content generation driven by automated music information retrieval on iOS.

Open Source contributor

for Git (core development) and Terasology (open-source game engine).

education and training

Engineering Student

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées.

Prologin Finalist

The French national Contest of Computer Science final lasts 36 hours during which we develop an artificial intelligence for a video game (a team-based RTS in 2012).

Student in Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles

Majored in Physics and Technology. Earned a Baccalauréat with high honors, studied within an Italian European class with an additional specialization in Mathematics.

skills

Hadoop

Cloudera, BigTop

TypeScript

React, Backbone, lodash, fp-ts

Node.js

Express, PM2

Python

Airflow, Flask, Celery

Git

porcelain and plumbing alike

Linux

Debian, Emacs & awesome

Redis

Sentinel & Cluster

French

native

English

fluent

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana

…more

AWS, Kafka, Nginx, Scala, scrapers