Summary
Nicolas Moussikian is a hands-on DevOps Tech Lead based in Centre-Val de Loire, France, with 13+ years of engineering experience and 14 years in IT management including eight at executive level. He has led teams from small freelance groups to 35-person organisations, restoring uptime from under 80% to 99.9% and driving cloud migrations, Kubernetes adoption, CI/CD and observability across PHP, Java, Node and big-data stacks. As former CTO and interim CTO he built SOA and real-time analytics platforms, modernized legacy PHP applications to Symfony/Laravel, and implemented infrastructure automation and monitoring practices. He pairs strategic roadmap and operational reliability work with day-to-day engineering, often stepping into coding, architecture and incident triage. Notably, he has repeatedly transformed ecommerce and high-traffic editorial platforms while launching international distribution channels and data acquisition pipelines. Nicolas combines creative problem solving with pragmatic processes to scale teams and systems without losing delivery velocity.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer