Laurent Prévost
Principal Platform Engineer
Yverdon-les-Bains, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLaurent Prévost is a Principal Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and improving delivery pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure automation for large e-commerce platforms. He has led platform and operations teams at Migros Online and LeShop.ch, building CI/CD chains using Ansible, Jenkins and cloud VM provisioning to support J2EE, NodeJS and automated QA workflows. A hands-on engineer, he authors practical developer tools—such as a maven settings bootstrap and a project scaffolder suite—to accelerate onboarding and generate advanced project templates beyond standard archetypes. His background in Java, web technologies (JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS) and daily MySQL performance tuning lets him bridge development and operations with an eye for measurable performance gains. He also co-founded Probe Dock, applying analytics to test results and shipping a Jenkins/Docker deployment pipeline, showing a persistent interest in observability and developer productivity. Based in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, he combines deep platform expertise with a knack for creating pragmatic, reusable tooling that reduces time-to-production.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master of Science HES-SO in Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science, Master of Science HES-SO in Engineering at University of Applied Sciences Western SwitzerlandCertificate of Capacity (CFC), Computer Science, A, Certificate of Capacity (CFC), Computer Science, A at EPSIC École professionelle de LausanneBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, A, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, A at School of Business and Engineering Vaud
English
Github Skills (85)
github10
ruby-client10
command-line-tool10
node-client10
cli10
github-issues10
binaries10
administration10
pdfkit9
pdf-document9
printing9
docker-compose9
tunneling9
pdfium9
javascript-client9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SoftEng-HEIGVD/iflux-server-node
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 160 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 6 months
node-jsapinodejs
Prevole/grunt-docker
Nov 2012 - Mar 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
gruntgrunt-plugindocker
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