Summary
Bastien Balaud is a Linux systems engineer based in Rennes with 10 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and modernizing infrastructure for media, public sector and cloud providers. He specializes in cluster storage (Ceph), Kubernetes/OpenShift, virtualization (VMware, ESXi) and automation with Ansible and Terraform, and has led deployments, incident response and industrialization projects at organizations like SIB, Scaleway and Ouest‑France. Bastien has built monitoring and metrology solutions (VictoriaMetrics, Better Uptime) and production message and analytics platforms on GKE, showing an ability to bridge ops, DevOps and platform engineering. He is comfortable managing large fleets (thousands of hypervisors) and bringing legacy platforms up to modern standards through careful introspection and documentation. Pragmatic and methodical, he pairs infrastructure automation with operational maturity—often prototyping cloud-native solutions (Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Metabase) before production rollout. Based in Brittany, he combines deep systems craftsmanship with a proven track record of stabilizing and scaling critical services.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master en informatique Informatique, Master en informatique Informatique at EPSI
Bac STID2 Option Système information et numérique, Bac STID2 Option Système information et numérique at Lycée Aristide Briand