Jean-marc Balizou
Principal Software Engineer at Partners Capital
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-marc Balizou is a Principal Software Engineer based in Stony Stratford with 11 years' experience delivering resilient, finance-grade systems across asset management and investment banking. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—Python, Java, CI/CD, Kubernetes and AWS—with a strong track record of designing pipelines, improving test coverage, and migrating critical trading and reconciliation tools into maintainable platforms. At Partners Capital he now leads technical development for client investment operations, having previously implemented hedge trading, broker reconciliations and validation checks at Squarepoint and Société Générale. Known for blending architecture advisory with practical engineering, he routinely introduces linters, monitoring tools and automation to raise reliability and developer productivity. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has a history of translating legacy VBA and messaging systems into modern Python services while guiding teams on best practices and technical hiring.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MCs Computer Software Engineering, Master of Computer Science - MCs Computer Software Engineering at Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies - ESPRIT
French, English
Github Skills (64)
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kubernetes-cluster10
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renovate10
flux10
cert-manager10
material-design-lite9
kubernetes9
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direnv9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ChristfriedBalizou/homelab
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1376 commits, 168 PRs, 852 pushes in 1 year 9 months
fluxhelmhelm-chartshome-opshomelab
ChristfriedBalizou/containers
Jan 2023 - Sep 2024
Kubernetes tailored container images for various applications
Contributions:13 PRs, 74 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 8 months
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