Summary
Maxime Lavandier is a Head of Platform and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, highly available systems at scale, currently leading platform strategy at Squarepoint Capital. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Consul and cloud infrastructure (GCP and on-prem), and has driven large migrations of trading software into containerized, production-ready environments. Previously he led DevOps and platform teams at Scaleway and early-stage startups, owning IAM, metering, security and cross-continental operational teams. Skilled in Python and Node.js with a background in embedded C/C++, he combines low-level systems thinking with platform automation (Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab-CI, Jenkins). Based in London with a master’s from EPITECH and international study at CSU Long Beach, he’s as comfortable designing HA distributed systems as he is improving SLA and operational maturity across global teams.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
French, English