Summary
Florian Vichot is a pragmatic contractor and senior engineering leader with 16+ years building resilient platforms across development and operations, from embedded systems to large cloud-native Kubernetes deployments. Based in Melbourne, he has led SRE and platform efforts at Cisco Meraki—driving a global EKS rollout, FedRAMP and China deployments, and a multi-year monolith-to-Kubernetes migration—while mentoring technical leaders and shaping cross-team strategy. He combines deep low-level troubleshooting (including a kernel-leak remediation that prevented thousands of crashes) with infrastructure-as-code, observability and security-minded platform design. Known for navigating hard trade-offs without cutting corners, he emphasizes transparency and empathy to build high-trust teams. A pragmatic tinkerer who “moves slow and fixes things,” he blends hands-on coding with systems-level thinking to deliver dependable, scalable services.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Degree Computer Science, Engineering Degree Computer Science at ENIB
English, French, Spanish