Hi, I am Alexis

Alexis Bel

Site Reliability Engineer at Wefight

Passionate engineer, my experience in both operations and application development gave a good overview of the IT world. As a DevOps evangelist, I have proven experience in the applications lifecycle automation in both complex and international environments. My motivation and my constant desire to learn, enable me to adapt to new environments, and I enjoy sharing my knowledge with dynamism.

Problem Solving
Leadership
Communication
Team Work
Adaptability
Fast Learner

Skills

Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Capable of deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes. Ability to deploy and administrate Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments. Use Helm and Kustomize to package and ship Kubernetes applications. Knowledge of service mesh to monitor microservices architecture.

Docker
Docker

Develop applications as containers. Experienced with multi-stage and multi-arch build processes. Use of containers in both Linux and Windows environments for continuous integration purpose. Usage of Docker Compose to automate development and testing environments setup.

Web Development
Web Development

Experienced with multiple programming languages, frameworks, and database engines to build modern web applications. Usage of the microservices architecture to scale applications. Capable to understand concepts like cache mechanism and messaging queues.

Cloud
Cloud

Experienced with Microsoft Azure to build modern cloud environments, especially using Kubernetes. Good understanding of compute, network, storage and identity concepts in Azure. Knowledge of other cloud providers (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Linode…)

Linux
Linux

Hands-on experience in managing Linux environments and overall knowledge of the operating system (Ubuntu, CentOS, Alpine). Overall knowledge of networking and administration services. Used as main environment to develop, build and run applications.

Terraform
Terraform

Apply Infrastructure as Code with Git versioning to reduce errors, improve system repeatability and auditability. Overall knowledge of Terraform features and basic usage of cloud resources definition using multiple providers

DevOps Culture
DevOps Culture

Promote DevOps and agile culture in the application lifecycle to reduce Time-to-Market and improve the overall product quality. Worked with multiple teams in different technical and cultural environments. Gave several presentations and demonstrations about DevOps topics.

Python
Python

Used as the main programming language. Experience in developing multiple CLI tools to build automation using multiple modules (argparse, request, jira…). Good experience with the Python environment (pip, wheel, behave, pytest, pycov…).

Software Testing
Software Testing

Implementation of multiple kinds of software testing strategies (unit tests, integration tests, E2E). Knowledge of testing frameworks (Behave, pytest, TestComplete, Google Test…) and methodologies (Behavior Driven Development…). Experienced with test traceability using Xray (Jira extension) to trace test campaigns.

Agile Methodology
Agile Methodology

Hands-on experience using the Scrum framework in software development. Good knowledge of the agile and lean culture. Usage of Jira Software to write, manage user stories and follow the entire project lifecycle.

Git
Git

Experienced with git-based development. Implementation of multiple branching strategies (Gitflow, GitHub flow) depending on the environment. Mostly use Github and also have experience with GitLab.

CI/CD
CI/CD

Experienced with multiple CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines and Codefresh. Excellent understanding of the application lifecycle, and the continuous testing/code scanning approach. Familiar with GitOps deployment strategies where everything is defined in Git (Argo CD).

Experiences

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Site Reliability Engineer
Wefight

March 2021 - Present, Montpellier, France

Wefight develop Vik, a virtual companion supporting you through your healthcare journey.

Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop and maintain the Vik infrastructure.
  • Manage Database and other services deployment.
  • Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD processes.
  • Evangelize the DevOps culture in the company.
DevOps Technical Leader
GE Grid Solutions

Sep 2019 - March 2021, Montpellier (France)

GE Grid Solutions, part of GE Renewable Energy is focused on bringing technologies and expertise to help solve the toughest power system challenges, accelerating the global transition to a greener, more resilient and reliable grid.

Responsibilities:
  • Participation in the definition of the DevOps roadmap, guarantor of tools to use and good practices to implement.
  • Evangelization of the DevOps culture and mentoring of more than 10 R&D teams within the group scattered around the world. .
  • Development of CI/CD (build, tests, code scanning, deployment) for several R&D teams in an environment both complex and heterogeneous (embedded software, micro-services ..).
  • Definition, architecture, and development of Python automation tools in order to facilitate CI/CD.
  • Implementation of an AKS cluster with auto-scalability and monitoring for the management of DevOps services (CI/CD, code scanning, etc.)
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DevOps Engineer (Apprenticeship)
Groupama Supports et Services

Sep 2016 - Sep 2019, Montpellier (France)

Groupama Supports et Services is the Groupama’s Economic Interest Group responsible for IT, purshasing and logisitics.

Responsibilities:
  • Creation of a web application with Symfony3 and Bootstrap frameworks to monitore, reporte, and automate the system infrastructure and more specifically backups, starting from the requirement specification, to the deployment in a production environment.
  • Python and Shell scripts development in order to connect the web application to other components of the IT environment (CMDB, Netbackup, Data Domains, Nas NetApp …).
  • Storage and system incidents management.
  • Significant reduction in time spent on the backup exploitation.
Software Developer (Internship)
Pays de l'Or Agglomération

Fev 2016 - April 2016, Mauguio (France)

Pays de l’Or Agglomération is responsible to manages public services for all cities part of of the conurbation

Responsibilities:
  • C++ (Qt framework) application development for the IT inventory management.
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Education

IMT Mines Alès
2016-2019
Engineer's Degree in Computer Science and Networking
CGPA: 3.58 out of 4
IUT de Montpellier
2014-2016
Two-year University Degree in Computer Science

Projects

Personal Portfolio
Personal Portfolio
Owner Feb 2021 - Present

A personal portfolio powered by Hugo Framework

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Automatic Release Notes
Automatic Release Notes
Lead Dev Sep 2019 - March 2021

Python CLI tool used to automate the release notes generation based on external data sources (Jira) using a Word template.

Xray Connector
Xray Connector
Lead Dev Sep 2019 - March 2021

Python CLI tool used to automate the test traceability with Xray (Jira extension) during the Continuous Integration process of applications.

GUISMO
GUISMO
Lead Dev Sep 2016 - Sep 2019

GUISMO is a web application developed with Symfony3 and Bootstrap to monitor, report, and automate backup and server management in a large and heterogeneous IT environment. Python and Shell scripts have been used to automate the data collection in a MySQL database.

Kubernetes Cluster Deployment (Academic)
Kubernetes Cluster Deployment (Academic)
Developer Sep 2018 - March 2019

Kubernetes cluster deployment on a bare-metal VMWare infrastructure to host services and applications of an IT department in collaboration with the entire class.

IT Inventory System
IT Inventory System
Lead Dev Feb 2016 - April 2016

Development of an IT inventory system to locate and query all IT assets of a public organization. The application has been developed in C++ using the Qt framework and a MySQL database for the data persistence.

Web Application Development with WordPress (Academic)
Web Application Development with WordPress (Academic)
Developer 2015

Development of a web application for a musical association using the CMS WordPress. The project has been realized with a group of 4 students following the agile methodology (Scrum patterns).