Axel Pavageau is a seasoned CTO and DevOps leader with 11+ years driving cloud and industrialisation at Ekino, where he architects scalable, automated AWS and Kubernetes platforms for enterprise clients. He has managed teams up to 15 engineers and overseen large hosting fleets, hybrid cloud migrations, and 24/7 operations spanning datacenters and AWS. Hands-on expertise includes ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation/Troposphere, Docker, Ansible, ELK, GitLab CI and APM—backed by meaningful contributions to the troposphere project adding ECS/ELB/RDS support. Comfortable at the intersection of technical strategy, client delivery and team enablement, he has led DevOps maturity assessments and tooling standardisation across complex landscapes. Known for pragmatic industrialisation work—automating repeatable platforms and observability pipelines—he combines commercial sensibility from a business education with deep infrastructure craftsmanship. Based in Courbevoie, France, he actively recruits and mentors engineers to tackle ambitious cloud projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Européen de Commerce et Gestion Business, Bachelor Européen de Commerce et Gestion Business at ESC La Rochelle
3ème Cycle Marketing & Commerce sur Internet IT Business Marketing, 3ème Cycle Marketing & Commerce sur Internet IT Business Marketing at Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci
BA in International Business Administration Business Economics, BA in International Business Administration Business Economics at Northumbria University
Marketing Business Economics, Marketing Business Economics at Escuela Universitaria de la Cámara de Comercio de Bilbao
troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:68 commits, 120 PRs, 38 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Axel contributed significantly to the `troposphere` project, which involves creating AWS CloudFormation descriptions using Python. Their commits focused on adding new resources and properties related to AWS services like Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Elastic Container Service (ECS), and RDS. This included modifying existing code to support the latest AWS updates, adding examples, and defining new components within the framework. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of AWS services and the underlying CloudFormation infrastructure.
Docker nginx image which displays blue content, used to demo blue/green deployments
Contributions:5 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 6 months
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