Erik De Lamarter
Head Of Platform Operations
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolErik De Lamarter is a pragmatic software engineer and platform leader with 11+ years delivering cloud-native infrastructure, secure services, and web applications across finance, education, aviation and IT. Currently Head of Platform Operations at Lombard Odier, he designs and operates internal platforms that combine OpenShift, Kafka and Vault to enable secure, containerized delivery at scale. He blends hands-on development (PHP, Java, Python, JavaScript, MySQL) with DevOps practices—CI/CD, testing and observability—and has a track record of migrating tooling into Kubernetes and major cloud providers. As an open-source-minded security engineer he contributed to smallstep/certificates by improving Vault and Kubernetes authentication and adding unit tests, demonstrating a focus on hardened automation for certificate management. Comfortable managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders, he also brings unusual experience as a Data Protection Officer and school operations lead, proving an ability to translate compliance and complex operational requirements into reliable technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Sciences, BSc Computer Sciences at University of GenevaComputer Science, Computer Science at EPFL
French, English, German
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
x50910
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
testing9
pki9
acme8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smallstep/certificates
Apr 2022 - May 2022
🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 26 days
Contributions summary:Erik's contributions focused on enhancing the authentication and authorization mechanisms within the `smallstep/certificates` repository, which involves managing a private certificate authority. They integrated support for Kubernetes authentication with Vault and refactored the vault authentication to improve the security of certificate management. Furthermore, they added unit tests for the implemented authentication methods to ensure robustness and reliability. These changes likely involved modifying Go code to interact with Vault and Kubernetes APIs.
sshacme-serversecurecertificate-authoritysecurity-tools
delamart/delamart.github.io
Apr 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 4 years 8 months
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