Clément Gineste

Management and optimization of cloud infrastructure for a distance learning school, ensuring high availability and performance to support the digital educational environment.

• Developed a React/Next.js application for managing ~1,000 student VMs and faculty virtual machines, with internal API updates
• Led partial migration to GCP: transferred classic VM workloads to containers on CloudRun and managed a Kubernetes cluster on GKE using Terraform
• Established and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across 20-30 active repositories
• Reduced AWS costs by ~40% through in-depth audits via Cost Explorer, spot instances adoption, and resource right-sizing
• Proposed and drove adoption of Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, improved GitOps management, and standardized Ansible modules
• Managed ~100 infrastructure VMs/servers and associated services across AWS, GCP, and Scaleway
• Redesigned AWS network architecture (VPC, subnets, IP addressing)
• Built multi-cloud site-to-site WireGuard VPN via Terraform between AWS and GCP
• Pushed adoption of Scaleway as alternative cloud provider for specific workloads
• Implemented blue/green deployment strategies for zero-downtime releases

Management of a server infrastructure and a service offering using virtualization software and Linux/open-source software.

• Daily management of ~100 servers and ~500 devices with level 2 support
• Deployed network monitoring (LibreNMS) and configuration backup (Oxidized) for network equipment
• Initiated documentation-as-code approach: migration from MediaWiki to Git-based system with format translation via Pandoc
• Developed Agile/Git-based working method for iterative and incremental processes
• Redesigned user network (VLAN, routing, firewall) across 3 buildings
• Built custom automated Linux deployment system (preseed/kickstart ISO generation, PXE boot) for hundreds of workstations across 3 buildings
• Participated in full redesign of IMT network and system architecture
• Updated configuration management system (Puppet) through new client-server infrastructure
• Deployed new Proxmox/Ceph cluster (5 nodes) to replace legacy infrastructure with replicated storage
• Managed printing infrastructure renewal and inventory project for decision-making indicators

Service administration, level 1 and 2 maintenance and support, hardware installation. Polyvalent role in a small IT team covering support through to network infrastructure.

• Level 1 and 2 user assistance, daily configuration of networks and services
• Created automation scripts for OS and software deployment on workstations
• Managed renewal of 40-60 workstations per year and optimized ancillary budgets for IT peripherals
• Proactive maintenance of ~30 printers and various user equipment including video conference rooms
• Continuous documentation updates and procedure creation with proposals for service improvements
• Backup management (users, SGBD) and restoration
• Active participation in local (Capitoul) and national (CNRS) sysadmin networks

Internship at a local ISP (enterprise fiber & hosting). Study project on vRouters and virtualization technologies.

• Study project on vRouters (cloud routing)
• Worked with VMWare ESXi, vCSA, Xen, KVM (Proxmox)
• Deployed monitoring (Shinken) and metrology (ELK)

Internship at a prestigious public engineering school. Automated deployment project with configuration management.

• Automated deployment project using FoG and DRBD
• Configuration management with Puppet in virtual environment (VirtualBox)

Internship at a software editor (enterprise solutions). Router migration study and deployable network solutions.

• Router migration study (Alix to Mikrotik)
• Created deployable Bash solutions: web filtering (tinyproxy+dansguardian), WiFi roaming with captive portal, L2TP/IPSec VPNs

Summer position testing web application developments. Dedicated QA role created for the project.

• Executed test protocols for web applications with detection, reporting, and follow-up