Grégoire Seux
Manager at Datadog
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolGrégoire Seux is a seasoned engineering manager and DevOps-focused leader with 15 years’ experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure from Paris. He currently manages teams at Datadog after leading multiple SRE and platform groups at Criteo, where he helped run thousands of applications, a 300PB Hadoop installation, and platform services at 10ks+ node scale. Hands-on in automation and reliability, he’s an active open-source contributor to key Chef/Test-Kitchen cookbooks and infrastructure projects (notably work improving idempotency, HAProxy and Consul cookbooks) that demonstrate both deep operational know-how and care for maintainable, testable code. Grégoire is skilled at growing engineers into senior and staff roles, resolving difficult operational constraints like CPU isolation and scheduling fragmentation, and translating large-scale operational problems into pragmatic engineering outcomes. A background spanning CentraleSupélec and IISc complements a practical, systems-first approach to platform engineering and cross-team collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)CentraleSupélecclasse préparatoire MP*, classe préparatoire MP* at Janson de Sailly
English, French
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Github Skills (54)
test-kitchen10
cookbook10
idempotent10
rubygems10
testing10
windows10
rspec10
configuration-management10
terraform10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
chef-client10
consul10
automation10
terraformer10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef-vault
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Securely manage passwords, certs, and other secrets in Chef
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 18 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Grégoire primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `chef-vault` project. Their work focused on optimizing the vault refresh operation by avoiding unnecessary re-encryption and improving performance. The user also addressed bugs, like correcting vault creation in solo mode, and introduced new features, such as the ability to force re-encryption. In addition, the user refactored and optimized key management, including addressing sparse key reading.
passwordssecretssecurelycertschef
sous-chefs/consul
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Grégoire primarily focuses on improving the deployment and configuration aspects of the `consul` cookbook. Their contributions include replacing nssm restart commands with PowerShell for Windows service management, ensuring proper use of `poise_archive`, and avoiding broken links on Windows systems. They also corrected code style issues and fixed a consul configuration sorting problem, indicating a focus on the overall operational readiness and stability of the Consul setup.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
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