Alexandre Fouché
Freelance System Administrator Linux Devops Ops SRE
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlexandre Fouché is a seasoned Linux system administrator and DevOps/SRE consultant based in Paris with 14+ years delivering high-availability, cost-optimized infrastructures for web and enterprise applications. He specializes in managing Magento, SugarCRM and Ruby/PHP apps, containerizing and migrating systems to Kubernetes, and designing resilient microservices architectures with monitoring, CI/CD and automation baked in. Alexandre has hands-on experience from founding a web-performance startup to leading cloud architecture and operations teams, and has implemented Puppet-driven provisioning, Hadoop clusters, and high-traffic scaling strategies. He contributes to open-source ops tooling—helping integrate Datadog into Puppet with new service checks and tighter security controls—highlighting his focus on observability and secure configuration. Known for pragmatic architecture design, he blends deep systems-level skills with product-minded thinking to reduce costs and improve reliability for production services.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master engineer, Mathematics & Computer science, Master engineer, Mathematics & Computer science at Université de RouenTechnician, Telecommunications & Computer networks, Technician, Telecommunications & Computer networks at Université de Blois
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Github Skills (27)
puppeteer10
puppet10
configuration-management10
yaml10
devops10
mysql9
amazon-elasticsearch9
redis9
mongodb-database9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch-api9
mongodb9
jenkins-ci9
nginx9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/puppet-datadog-agent
Jan 2014 - Nov 2018
Puppet module to install the Datadog agent
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:40 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the configuration and integration aspects of the Datadog agent within the Puppet module. They updated configuration examples, added new integrations for services such as MySQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Nginx, including creating associated configuration files. Furthermore, the user addressed security concerns by restricting access to sensitive files and improved the module's flexibility by allowing Hiera merging.
datadog-agentagentpuppetpuppet-modulepmm
alexfouche/puppet-postfix
Nov 2018 - Mar 2024
Puppet postfix module
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 5 months
postfixpuppet
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