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I am Pierre Besson, a Full-Stack and Dev-Ops Software Engineer based in Paris. I am also a team member of the JHipster open source project.

Current Role

Independent Software Consultant

Resume

I have 7 years of experience developing and shipping software at all layers of the stack :

System administration and cloud infrastructure

  • Practical knowledge in managing infrastructure on Cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and of deploying applications on both standalone servers (VMs) and container orchestration platform (Kubernetes).
  • Proficiency in using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Configuration Management (Ansible).
  • Hands on experience setting up Continuous Delivery pipelines and Secrets and Identity Access Management (Vault, AWS/GCP IAM).
  • Familiarity with using Observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana) to monitor production environments.
  • Specific expertise in operating networks of Blockchain Nodes (Ethereum, Substrate/Polkadot) and applications connected to blockchains.

Back-end development

  • Experience working on Java based microservice architectures including leveraging popular frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot.
  • Skills in implementing development best practices such as Testing, Web API design, Dependency Injection, RPC communication, Relational and Non-relational Data Persistence.
  • Expertise in setting up Build Tooling for application packaging (Maven, Gradle) and Containerization (Docker).

Front-end development

  • Experience working on complex and dynamic websites using Web technologies and frameworks such as Angular and React.

For a detailed summary of my experiences, you can read my CV.