Baptiste Collard
Technical Account Manager at Kong Inc.
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolBaptiste Collard is a Technical Account Manager and seasoned cloud-native architect with 11 years' experience designing and operating enterprise-grade API, middleware, and integration platforms. He has led middleware and hosting teams, built large-scale API and logging pipelines at Airbus and Auchan, and now supports customers at Kong with deep expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies. Hands-on with Go, Terraform, Cloud Run, Anthos and Knative, he combines developer-level software engineering with platform and security-focused architecture (OAuth2, mTLS, API governance). Notable strengths include pragmatic migration planning from on-prem to AWS/GCP, observability at scale, and automating delivery with Tekton/Flux and Terraform. He mentors teams in DevOps culture and has a history of shipping production integrations across retail and aerospace domains. Outside work he documents learnings on his technical blog, reflecting a continuous curiosity for cloud primitives and enterprise data exchange patterns.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Professional degree, Computer science, Professional degree, Computer science at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)2 years technical degree in Computer Science, 2 years technical degree in Computer Science at Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneNational Conservatory of Arts and CraftsBachelor's degree, Scientific, Bachelor's degree, Scientific at Lycée Val de Murigny, Reims
English
Github Skills (154)
api-management10
cms10
hugo10
kuma10
reverse-proxy10
connectivity10
docker-desktop10
consul10
kong10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
native-api10
mesh10
qemu10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bcollard/gcloud-functions-nodejs-claps
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:17 PRs, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
bcollard/kind-on-lima-public
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
source code for the blog post at https://baptistout.net/posts/kubernetes-clusters-on-macos-with-loadbalancer-without-docker-desktop/
Contributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 8 months
loadbalancerclustersdockerkubernetes-clustersblog-post
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