Jean-Baptiste FAREZ

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Experiences

Blockchain based platform backing Sports and Entertainment fan engagement service Socios.com
Managing and mentoring of 5 distributed teams (24 people over West EU, US and LatAm)
Supporting Engineering Managers in the introduction of Platform Engineering and "productification" of low level and internal components
Conducting strategic moves (Tribe/Squad organization, DORA metrics, HR <-> P&T relationships...)
Managing cloud systems, developing strategic capacity planning, and supervising costs in alignment with the department's budget
Performance and team engagement monitoring highly driven by metrics, feedback, empathy and continuous improvement

B2B marketplace linking authentic brands to talented retailers
Defining and operating the technical vision in a customer centric way
Scaling and leading a team of 6 people (senior+)
Driving technical projects (Chunk based iterating cycles, Roadmap establishment...)
Conducting the change (New practices, Growth framework, Documentation platform)
Doer stuff (On-demand staging environment, help with run)

Health tech company providing coordination services between professionals
Driving infrastructure team and spreading the architectural vision
Hiring and management of 6 directs
Operating some oganizational changes (Squads introduction, Staff engineering, Shape-Up project management experimentation, On-call policy)
Leading technical projects (Project management, Cross team coordination, Internal projects...)
Hands-On projects (EKS upgrade, IaC rework to Pulumi, help with run)

Car mobility and ridesharing operator
Complete rework of the existing infrastructure (Automation of everything, Standardization around IaC, From ECS to container orchestration with Mesos/Marathon)
Building an in-house ephemeral staging platform
Bringing up a complete Data oriented platform (Event based architecture around Kafka, Data pipeline...)
Release end to end CI pipelines with Drone.io
Rework log ingestion and monitoring based on Datadog

Mobile advertising platform
Driving operations team ( 3 people )
Directing infrastructure rework project (Bare metal to Cloud migration, IaC introduction...)
Building the monitoring platform
Handling legacy hosting provider relationship and termination
Leading internal changes (On-call policy, Internal meetups, Agile with Kanban...)

Online gaming platform with TV broadcasting on French channel (M6)
Building the infrastructure from scratch
(Virtualized hosting provider, Automation with Puppet / Capistrano, Specific technologies for TV broadcasting)
Continuous integration processes (CI pipeline for quick and safe rollouts)
Deploying log ingestion stack (Splunk)
Using agile methodologies

Skills

Education

French technical IT degree with system and security
specialization

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Baccalauréat equivalent, allowing university studies

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Interests

Driving engineering @Chiliz