Senior Staff Data EngineerSébastienLaunay44Canadian permanent residentwww.slaunay.frsebastiensebastienlaunayslaunay2002 - 2005Engineer/Master's degree from INSA of Toulouse, France in Computer science2000 - 2002DUT in Computer science at the I.U.T. A of Toulouse, FrancePassionate technical leader with 20+ years of distinguished experience driving large-scale data platform architecture and operational excellence across diverse industries. Deeply specialized in defining and scaling composable, resilient, and highly secure data platforms and modern data ingestion/activation systems.
Technical authority in Cloud Platform, pipeline optimization, stream processing, and embedding security/compliance into agile development processes. Driving force on tackling complex, distributed data challenges, simplifying architecture, and mentoring engineers to deliver high-quality, operationally sound software. Since May 2022Senior Staff Data Engineerat 1PasswordVancouver, CanadaLeading the Data Platform team, defining the three year data and infrastructure vision and directly influencing the company-wide data strategy shifting organizational culture towards data-informed decision-making and self serveDriving the consolidation of high-volume data from disparate data sources to generate trusted and accurate insights while ensuring rigorous compliance for all downstream consumption and key business growth initiativesCultivating platform engineering by coaching Senior Data Engineers to master operational excellence with a focus on simplicity and developer experience while providing system resiliency and reliability at scale2015 - 2022Technical Lead - Reporting Data Platformat CiscoVancouver, CanadaBuilt and operated a highly available and fault tolerant reporting Data Platform for Cisco Umbrella from collection (37 global DCs) to storage (6 million events/s streamed at peak, 45 TiB per day) and analytics using AWSMentored juniors on designing simple, secure and efficient quality streaming data pipelines2011 - 2015Senior Software Engineer (Web, Java)at Sierra WirelessVancouver, CanadaPrototypes design and implementation for the CTO OfficeDesign and implementation of AirVantage™ M2M Cloud Platform features in an international context2009 - 2011Software Engineer and Open Source expertat Sierra WirelessToulouse, FranceDesign and implementation of a M2M plug and play solution for monitoring ICS connected to the AirVantage™ M2M Cloud Platform2005 - 2009Technical expert, leader and trainerat Anyware TechnologiesToulouse, FranceProduct development, project management, expertise, training and pre-sales on Ametys (CMS and DMS solutions). Design and implementation of a HA web SSO system with load balancingComputer languagesGoPythonJavaSQLBashDatastoresClickHouseS3AWS DynamoDBHBaseRedisMySQLPostgres Data Processing AWS AthenadbtPolarsSparkDatabricksFlinkTechnologiesIcebergKafka (Streams, Connect, Mirroring, Schema Registry)AWS Kinesis, SQS, SNSTerraformSpaceliftAWS (ECS, Lambda, EC2, SSM)DockerAnsibleAWS (LB, Cloudfront, Route53, Cloud WAN)DagsterPrefectRESTAvroProtobufSecurityTLS/X.509AWS (KMS, IAM, ACM, PCA)OAuthSSO (Okta, Jasig CAS)SOC 2FedRAMPSoftware engineeringAgile (Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP)Design PatternsK.I.S.S.YAGNIToolsNeovimGittmuxGithubGitlabJiraDatadogPagerDutyNagiosLookerMetabaseOperating SystemsGNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux)MacOSXLanguagesFrench (native speaker)English spoken everyday by living in British ColumbiaBasic knowledge of SpanishHobbiesTechnology IntelligenceOpen Source contributorWoodworkingMovies and TV showsSportsMountain BikingSki touringHiking