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Paul SANTUS

Freelance consultant and AWS cloud architect
15 years experience in managing software and IT systems

Certifications

AWS Cloud Economics Accredited Partner Formateur accrédité (AAI) AWS

Top skills

Technical skills

AWS cloud architecture

5/5

Infrastructure-as-Code

4.5/5

Software Architecture

4.5/5

Software development, Java

2.5/5

Management skills

Agile

4.5/5

Team management

4.5/5

Project management

4.3/5

Industry knowledge

Energy & Utilities

5/5

(13 years over the whole value chain)

Rail transportation

2.2/5

Education

Location

Resume

I'm a Mines ParisTech engineer with 15 years of experience in IT, including

    • 6 years as a CTO / Technical Product manager for a software editor
    • 3 years as Head of Architecture and Development in corporate IT,
    • 8 years of experience in cloud computing (6x AWS certified, including Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer Professional certifications)

  • management of tech teams up to 25 people

my skill set enables me to help you lead various transformations of your IT/Software department.

Formateur officiel AWS, je peux vous accompagner dans la montée en compétences de vos équipes.

Key achievements

  • Design and deployment of a landing zone (AWS Organization, SSO, IAM, VPC, Transit gateway)
  • Deployment of an event bus (AWS EventBridge, SQS, SNS)
  • Serverless App design (AWS API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront,DynamoDB, ACM)
  • Hosting containerized Apps (AWS ECS + Aurora)
  • Hosting classic applications (AWS EC2 VM + Load balancer + AutoScaling Group)
  • Database migrations (AWS Database Migration Service, Aurora)
  • Deploying Domain Driven Design
  • Application refactoring to modularize commons
  • Deployment of various infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-code (TerraForm, CloudFormation)
  • CI/CD : automation of a feature branch build and deployment
  • Observability: set up metrics collections using Prometheus and usage via Grafana and OpsGenie
  • Refactoring network architecture and zero-downtime migration from a Sonicwall to a Fortigate firewall
  • Deployment of new IT operations processes, based on ITIL (request management, incident management, continuous improvement). Deployment of Jira Service Management and OpsGenie
  • Agile delivery model change, leading to a 2 week delivery cycle (previously, 3 to 6 months) hence improving time-to-market
  • Deployment of Scrum with 5 agile teams

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