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                           Senior Staff Data Engineer                          
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Sébastien Launay
Canadian permanent resident.

For an up-to-date resume in HTML and PDF: http://www.slaunay.fr/

=========================== Professional Experience ==========================

Passionate 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 2022: Senior Staff Data Engineer at 1Password in Vancouver, Canada
   - Leading 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 serve.
   - Driving 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 initiatives.
   - Cultivating 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 scale.

  2015 - 2022: Technical Lead - Reporting Data Platform at Cisco in Vancouver, Canada
   - Built 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 AWS.
   - Mentored juniors on designing simple, secure and efficient quality streaming data pipelines.

  2011 - 2015: Senior Software Engineer (Web, Java) at Sierra Wireless in Vancouver, Canada
   - Prototypes design and implementation for the CTO Office.
   - Design and implementation of AirVantage M2M Cloud Platform features in an international context.

  2009 - 2011: Software Engineer and Open Source expert at Sierra Wireless in Toulouse, France
   - Design and implementation of a M2M plug and play solution for monitoring ICS connected to the AirVantage M2M Cloud Platform.

  2005 - 2009: Technical expert, leader and trainer at Anyware Technologies in Toulouse, France
   - Product 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 balancing.

==================================== Skills ===================================

  Computer languages: 
   -  Go, Python, Java, SQL, Bash.

  Datastores: 
   -  ClickHouse, S3, AWS DynamoDB, HBase, Redis.  
   -  MySQL, Postgres.

  
        Data Processing
      : 
   -  AWS Athena, dbt, Polars, Spark, Databricks, Flink.

  Technologies: 
   -  Iceberg, Kafka (Streams, Connect, Mirroring, Schema Registry), AWS Kinesis, SQS, SNS.  
   -  Terraform, Spacelift, AWS (ECS, Lambda, EC2, SSM), Docker, Ansible.  
   -  AWS (LB, Cloudfront, Route53, Cloud WAN).  
   -  Dagster, Prefect.  
   -  REST, Avro, Protobuf.

  Security: 
   -  TLS/X.509, AWS (KMS, IAM, ACM, PCA), OAuth, SSO (Okta, Jasig CAS).  
   -  SOC 2, FedRAMP.

  Software engineering: 
   -  Agile (Lean, Kanban, Scrum, XP), Design Patterns, K.I.S.S., YAGNI.

  Tools: 
   -  Neovim, Git, tmux.  
   -  Github, Gitlab, Jira.  
   -  Datadog, PagerDuty, Nagios.  
   -  Looker, Metabase.

  Operating Systems: 
   -  GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux), MacOSX.

  Languages: 
   -  French (native speaker).  
   -  English spoken everyday by living in British Columbia.  
   -  Basic knowledge of Spanish.

================================== Education =================================

  2002 - 2005: Engineer/Master's degree from INSA of Toulouse, France in Computer science
  2000 - 2002: DUT in Computer science at the I.U.T. A of Toulouse, France

================================== Interests =================================

  Hobbies: Technology Intelligence, Open Source contributor, Woodworking, Movies and TV shows.

  Sports: Mountain Biking, Ski touring, Hiking.