Jean-Baptiste BARTH

Engineering Manager / Head of Platform @ Lifen

Lifen, Paris (75)

• management & technical leadership for a team of 5, then 4 teams of 16 total
• daily coordination of the teams, link with product and other poles
• major improvements in the SDLC and ops processes (tooling, monitoring, post-mortems, ...)
• recruitment & career management

VP of Engineering @ Botify

Botify, Paris (75)

• management & technical leadership for a team of 40+ talented engineers (Developers, QA, Infra, Security)
• day-to-day delivery coordination and product management on technical features end-to-end
• inter department synchronisation, processes improvement
• recruitment & career management

Head of Infrastructure @ Botify

Botify, Paris (75)

• lead for infrastructure evolutions and production management: resiliency, automation, autoscaling, deployments, monitoring
• technical leadership for backend projects
• support of development processes: documentation, Slack bot, continuous integration, sandbox environments
• product development: frontend (Django), backend (maintainer of simpleflow a client library for Amazon SWF: https://github.com/botify-labs/simpleflow)
• tooling around the platform: costs reporting, monitoring ; custom SWF console (https://github.com/jbbarth/webflow)
• growth from solo to a 3 persons team
• platform of 300-500 servers on OVH, Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SWF), Google Cloud
• open-source context: Ubuntu, Ansible, Docker, ElasticSearch, Django, PostgreSQL, Graphite, Grafana, etc.

Deputy group manager, Production @ French Government

Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development - Paris-La Défense (92)

• hosting of ~200 web and BI applications on a platform of 800 servers, spread on 2 datacenters in Paris and Bordeaux
• management of a 19 sysadmins team ; on-call rotations
• open-source context: Debian, RedHat, Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Puppet, Rails, Bind, IPVS, Nagios, Logstash, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Graphite, Docker, etc.
• lead for infrastructure evolutions and convergence projects
• interministerial study on cloud components (Openstack)

Deputy team lead, datacenter of the General Secretariat @ French Government

Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development - Paris-La Défense (92)

• open-source context: Debian, RedHat, Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Nagios, Puppet, etc.
• implementation and adaptation of free softwares: Redmine + plugins, Cartoque
• organizational and technical evolutions inside the datacenter
• level 3 support for the team ; technology watch ; expertise ; troubleshooting

Technical lead for SETRA's datacenter @ French Government

Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development - Bagneux (92)

• administration of ~40 applications in a RedHat/AIX environment
• day-to-day management of 3 people
• conception and deployment of architecture evolutions
• tools modernization: Nagios, Puppet, Git, Redmine, home-made CMDB