Julien Berard
Lead Platform Engineer
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Berard is a Lead Platform Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering secure, scalable cloud and SaaS platforms for regulated and enterprise clients. He blends deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD with a proven track record of applying NCSC security principles to high-sensitivity projects and mentoring teams to adopt IaC, self-healing and TDD practices. As founder of a DevOps consultancy and through roles at Fnality, Bluestar and major clients like Sainsbury’s and Barclaycard, he has repeatedly transformed legacy on-prem systems into resilient, automated cloud services. Julien is comfortable in presales and technical leadership, having both sold and led delivery of compliant platforms while liaising with auditors and stakeholders. He contributes to open-source infrastructure tooling—improving testing and configurability in widely used Chef cookbooks—demonstrating attention to operational reliability and test coverage. Based in Bracknell, he combines practical scripting and tooling skills (Python, Ruby, Bash) with an architect’s view on security, performance and observability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Information Technology, Master, Information Technology at Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)Bachelor of Network and Telecommunication, Network and System Administration/Administrator, Bachelor of Network and Telecommunication, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
French, English
Github Skills (18)
testing10
configuration-management10
chefspec10
apache10
ruby10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation9
automations9
cicd8
yum7
nodejs6
php6
python6
debian6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
djoos-cookbooks/newrelic
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Development repository for the newrelic cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on configuring and improving the New Relic monitoring agent within the context of a Chef cookbook. They modified existing configuration files and recipes to allow for more flexibility in the deployment and configuration of the New Relic agents for PHP, Python, and Node.js applications. The commits included updates to testing frameworks and the service startup/management of the agents.
newrelic
sous-chefs/apache2
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Development repository for the apache2 cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on improving the build process and test coverage for the `apache2` cookbook. Their contributions include adding and modifying tests for various Apache modules such as `mod_fastcgi`, addressing linting issues, and introducing the ability to compile mod_fastcgi from source. They also refactored attributes related to module installation and configuration. These changes enhance the cookbook's reliability and configurability across different platforms.
apacheapache2chef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
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