Cedric Rivard

Worked as a DevOps Engineer at a major bank, focusing on system configuration standardization and automation using the Ansible Automation Platform. Key responsibilities included:

• Developing and implementing Python scripts to expand Ansble's functionality, creating custom modules and plugins as needed.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, document, and enforce standard configurations for a large inventory of systems.

• Ensuring compliance with internal regulations and external standards in the financial industry.

• Addressing system issues, maintaining availability, and implementing security measures.

Private cloud to Azure migration of the service platform

• Maintained a 99.99% uptime for our cloud-based applicative platform, supporting critical applications for high-profile clients.

• Led the resolution of complex platform defects, spanning from IaaS to SaaS, by conducting in-depth analyses and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Played a pivotal role in the creation of infrastructure support tools that improved team efficiency.

• Regularly conducted knowledge-sharing sessions on troubleshooting and tool usage, upskilling the team on key SRE practices.

• Designed and deployed services using Service Oriented Architecture patterns, ensuring scalability and maintainability.

• Managed network configurations, ensuring optimal traffic routing and load balancing.

• Demonstrated proficiency in infrastructure management using Ansible, standardizing configurations and deployments across environments.

• Showcased proficiency in scripting with Python to implement plugin systems that leverage 3rd party code and in-house developed code.

• Collaborated with development teams on Azure DevOps, streamlining CI/CD pipelines and enhancing deployment workflows

Designing and developing solutions for the most complex systems used in the semiconductor industry (Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Qualcomm, ARM, Apple). Working on Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) systems, a cutting-edge technology in the field of semiconductor manufacturing. EUV lithography requires a highly powerful and stable light source which involves complex processes such as firing high-powered lasers at tiny droplets of molten tin. Achieving and maintaining the required intensity and stability of this light source is technically demanding. As part of the Computer Systems team, I have been instrumental in designing and developing the best computing environment dedicated to the control of this source.

• Designing, maintaining and improving a network of computer systems (servers and embedded systems running Linux)

• C++ and Python development of the operating system abstraction components, data handling and communication between software components

• Creating software specifications from functional specifications, breaking up complex functionality into smaller parts and leading other engineers in the implementation

• Creating efficient designs, contributing to their implementation and testing