Killian THEZELAIS


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Introduction

Hello and welcome on my portfolio website!
I'm Killian, a French Software Developer. I've built this simple website to introduce myself to you, but mainly to showcase you all my personal and professional accomplishments so far on my journey as a technophile! Enjoy your stay!

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Software Engineer (apprentice)

Thales Alenia Space / IRAP

Toulouse, France - 09/2017 to 08/2020

An apprenticeship I achieved while studying at IMT Atlantique.
I've participated in the design and the implementation of a space weather web service to display the evolution over time of the ionosphere all around the world.
It was a project in partnership between Thales Alenia Space and IRAP laboratory.

System Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Galway, Ireland - 08/2021 to 02/2022

I joined the HPE GreenLake cloud provider department, focusing on its Terraform provider development. Utilized Scrum Agile principles and Github Pull Request system for efficient collaboration in 2-week sprints. Key Achievements:

  • Enhanced functionality of a Golang CLI through feature additions and troubleshooting.
  • Spearheaded integration test development for a Python REST API, ensuring robustness and reliability.
  • Optimized CI/CD pipeline speed by 80% for the API, leveraging Kubernetes clusters to simulate production environments.

Software Engineer - Backend / DevOps

Riskfuel Analytics

Toronto, Canada - 05/2022 to Present

Responsible for enhancing and maintaining company's internal services & infrastructure while engineering new Microservices to boost efficiency. Key Projects:

  • Conceptualized and deployed a Microservice spinning up ready-to-go Kubernetes Clusters in < 5 minutes in an on-premise environment.
  • Developed a Microservice automating GPU assignment on VMs using GPU Passthrough method.
  • Engineered entirely Company's Observability strategy to monitor internal SaaS and critical core services across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
  • Contributed to the development of an internal VSCode Extension using React JavaScript library.
  • Designed Developer remote environment to centralize company intellectual property, ensuring secure source code production in Datacenter.
Boosted team productivity 2x by:
  • Automating manual tasks with Python/Bash scripts.
  • Creating & enhancing speed of existing Github Actions CI/CD pipelines.
  • Self-trained on Packer & cloud-init for entirely automating on-premise servers OS provisioning & deployment in company's Kubernetes clusters.
  • Championing GitOps principles with ArgoCD workflow.
  • Crafting easy-to-understand Documentations/README/Troubleshoot guides for efficient knowledge sharing within the team.