Summary
Adrien Letournel is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and Azure. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Security Specialist, he designs scalable, reusable systems that minimize technical debt and keep four-nines SLAs achievable. He has led SRE teams at Talend—driving PostgreSQL/RDS scaling, Redis/Mongo/Kafka tuning, Kubernetes migrations and a FinOps initiative that cut AWS spend ~10% (~$1.5M/yr)—and currently applies that expertise at Datadog. Comfortable across languages and tooling from Java/Scala/Python to Terraform, Helm and Vault, he blends pragmatic engineering with process leadership, running scrum rituals and cross-functional projects. Based in Nantes, his background spans startups to enterprise and includes applied research work on data processing and optimization algorithms, reflecting a long-standing focus on reliable data backends and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles (Physique et Science de l’Ingénieur), Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles (Physique et Science de l’Ingénieur) at Lycée Clemenceau
Baccalauréat Science with advanced mathematics, Baccalauréat Science with advanced mathematics at Lycée la Coliniere
Master of Sciences (M. Sc.) in engineering, Master of Sciences (M. Sc.) in engineering at Centrale Nantes
French, English, Spanish