Valérian Beaudoin

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Professional Background

2023 - now : Engineering Manager - Global Growth, Back Market, Tokyo

The Global Growth team is helping Back Market increase its impact and reach by finding growth opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC and implement them regardless the technical or functional scope.

  • Automatically replace orders cancelled due to stock issues with another seller’s stock
  • A/B tests on product pages & SEO improvements
  • Currently working on Express Replacement feature (sending a replacement device when there is a defect before the customer sends it back)

2022 - 2023 : Engineering Manager APAC, Back Market, Paris/Tokyo

Deployment and localization of APAC markets, including Japan and Australia. Based in Tokyo, I managed a new team to work in collaboration with local APAC business teams and central tech and product teams based in Europe. I created this team and our main missions have been to:

  • Adapt our website to Japanese market, both in terms of localization and features
  • Launch of the APAC marketplace (servers and code)
  • Migrate Japan from temporary website to in-house codebase seamlessly
  • Launch Australia site and do Shopify integration
  • Create a custom integration between Back Market and Japan-centric Next Engine tool to allow our sellers to easily manage stock and orders

2021 - 2022 : Engineering Manager Infrastructure, Back Market, Paris

Management of a team of 10 engineers managing cloud resources.

I created and refined a framework for enabling infrastructure engineers to have the right level of information, autonomy and ownership on the tasks they were doing. My goal was making sure they could all propose and implement improvements on both processes and tools, within guidelines we all followed. I was focused on making sure the team was aligned on the priorities, recruiting new members, and was doing regular 1-1s, feedback, performance evaluation, trainings, promotions, off-sites etc.

  • Scaled to a team of 10 engineers from diverse backgrounds
  • Redefined the working agreement and processes/tools for handling incidents/improvements/support/build projects altogether efficiently
  • Launched various initiatives to increase the visibility of our team: infra chapter, monthly newsletter, internal and external communications, etc.
  • Costs management for providers (AWS, Teleport, VPN, Mails, etc.)
  • Implementation of new tools: Cilium, Vault, etc.
  • Contribution on audit and due diligence reports
  • Kick-off of the DevPortal initiative to provide our infrastructure as a PaaS to our developers

2020 - 2021 : DevOps Tech Lead, Back Market, Paris

Technical lead of infrastructure resources deployment and management, and tools used by developers.

I was in charge of helping the infra team designing the right solutions for the problems we had, and synchronize with other teams to make sure to work on the right topics.

  • Definition of the solutions to implement based on business/developers needs
  • Priority management between build/run/troubleshoot
  • Tech vision definition and alignment with team members
  • Contractual relations and FinOps with providers such as AWS, DNS/CDN/etc.
  • Continuously increase the security of the infrastructure
  • Setup of the first CD platform based on Spinnaker and a in-house GoLang bot for GitOps

2019 - 2020 : DevOps Engineer, Back Market, Paris

Part of the DevOps team, I was in charge of running Back Market websites with Kubernetes platforms on AWS using tools such as TerraGrunt, Kops or Helm to ensure the complete reproducibility of our stacks.

2018 - 2019 : Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer - Europe, Rakuten, Paris

Part of a global team located in the US, Europe and Japan, I worked on datacenter related tasks such as taking over existing virtualisation platforms based on VMware and OpenStack. I also took part in opening a new datacenter for Rakuten European subsidiaries and deploying an multi-tenants OpenStack infrastructure. I was aiming to manage them automatically and remotely, as well as providing easy to use infrastructures and tools.

2014 - 2018 : Network & System Engineer, Oxalide, Paris

Within a dedicated team, I worked on storage and virtualization infrastructures, shared services such as monitoring, APT repositories or e-mails, and internal tools made available to production teams. I also worked within a customer team for a few months.

  • Automation of the monitoring setup for servers
  • Creation of a tool for deploying virtual machines on VMWare infrastructures
  • Automation of the building of VMware / NetApp private clouds with Ansible
  • Management of Oxalide’s dedicated and shared virtualization platforms
  • Implementation of the Spacewalk patch management tool
  • Build of the inventory of machines with Ansible & Foreman
  • Deployment of the latest Oxalide website using AWS & Docker
  • Build and management of on-premise & cloud based customer platforms
  • Development of Chef cookbooks

2011 - 2014 : Linux System Administrator, Alter Way Hosting, Saint-Cloud

During this experience, in addition to managing customers platforms, I was able to take part in modernizing the existing IT infrastructure: upgrading old software, setting up Puppet and rationalizing physical and virtual machines.

  • Administration and deployment of architectures on linux servers
  • Troubleshooting and level III support
  • Management of dedicated and shared virtualization KVM platforms
  • Technical pre-sale
  • Writing and validating internal procedures and documentations

2010 - 2011 : System & Network Administrator (Apprenticeship), Waycom, Suresnes

This experience enabled me to deploy my first web infrastructures in relation to the customer development teams, and to build skills on a large number of technical subjects. I was also asked to suggest improvements and I dealt with incident mitigation, which allowed me to understand the stakes of the production.

2010 : Internship at the Intervention Unit, Orange, Caen

During this end-of-studies internship focused on telecommunications, I was led to install and configure PBX / IPBX, phones and Wi-Fi AP in various companies. I also made interventions on the local loop, and delivered training to end-users.

Education

2010 - 2011 : Professional Bachelor Of Computer Systems & Software, UIT of Sénart/Fontainebleau, Paris XII University

Specialized in Systems and Networks Administration.

2008 - 2010 : Technology University Degree of Networks & Telecommunications, UIT of Ifs, University of Caen

2010 : Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Jules Verne High School, Mondeville

Technical Experience

Operating Systems: Linux, macOS

Virtualization: KVM, Xen, VMware

Orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenStack

Storage: NetApp, EqualLogic, IBM

Continuous Integration: Travis-CI, Jenkins, GitLab CI

Continuous Delivery: Spinnaker

Monitoring: Centreon, Grafana, Datadog

Automation: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, TerraForm

Development: GoLang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl

Public Cloud: AWS, Azure

Containers: Docker

E-mails: Postfix, Dovecot, ClamAV

Web Services: Apache, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Tomcat, PHP, MySQL

Languages

French: Native

English: Fluent

Spanish: Elementary

Japanese: Night classes, JLPT N5 in 2017, JLPT N4 in 2019, JLPT N3 in 2022

Interests

Swimming, Climbing, Japanese language, Piano, Travel, Open Source Software