Didier Michel
SRE Engineer at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group
France
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Top SchoolDidier Michel is an SRE engineer based in France with 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems. He has strong expertise in Python, Go and PostgreSQL, and has applied that skillset across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and tools like Kubernetes, Terraform and GitHub Actions. Didier contributed to notable open-source tooling such as EnterpriseDB’s Barman, improving PostgreSQL backup/restore code, tests and CI quality—demonstrating both database depth and code hygiene. His background spans avionics and satellite systems to commercial web and cloud projects, giving him uncommon experience bridging low-level system integration and modern DevOps practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation, reliability engineering and thoughtful refactors that simplify permissions and legacy cruft. He pairs an engineering degree in electronics and RF with a pragmatic focus on operability and continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
Forest garden intensiveIngénieur Electronique Hyperfréquences programmation télécommunications, Ingénieur Electronique Hyperfréquences programmation télécommunications at Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications
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Github Skills (10)
disaster-recovery10
backup10
postgresql10
pytest10
python10
database-design10
testing10
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EnterpriseDB/barman
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:10 releases, 155 reviews, 77 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Didier primarily contributed to the Barman project, focusing on PostgreSQL database-related functionalities and improving code quality. They fixed output formatting issues in the `walarchive.py` client and unit tests. The user also removed the `userepl` privilege from the `has_backup_privileges` query in `postgres.py`, streamlining user permissions. Additionally, the user refactored dependencies and removed Python 2.6 remnants, and applied code formatting changes. They also added coverage report to Sonarqube.
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didiermichel/gobadge
Oct 2022 - Jul 2024
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Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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