Pierre Besson
DevOps Engineer
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarPierre Besson is a DevOps Engineer based in Paris with a decade of experience operating and hardening production systems, with a niche focus on blockchain node operations. He blends traditional DevOps practices—Docker, ELK stack, CI/CD—with hands-on full-stack contributions to prominent open-source projects like JHipster and the polkadot-js apps, where he managed backend infrastructure, monitoring/alerting integrations, and network/RPC configurations for Substrate testnets. Comfortable across the stack, Pierre has improved observability and deployment pipelines, authored ElastAlert integrations and Docker improvements, and refined UIs and config tooling for developer-facing registries. His work shows a pragmatic balance between developer UX and operational resilience, and an eye for keeping large community projects' configurations and endpoints accurate and secure.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (64)
substrate10
kubernetes10
docker10
javascript10
yeoman-generator10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
configuration-management10
bash10
swagger10
ui-design10
dockers10
kibana10
cicd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jhipster/jhipster-console
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
JHipster monitoring & alerting console, based on ELK
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 168 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on improving the monitoring and alerting capabilities of the JHipster console project. They added and configured ElastAlert for alerting, created scripts for loading dashboards, and integrated with Elasticsearch. Their work involved significant modifications to Docker configurations, including creating new Dockerfiles and adjusting the startup scripts to integrate with the alerting system and configure index patterns. They also updated the project to use the environment variables and upgraded the elastic stack.
consoleelkjhipsteralertinggrafana
jhipster/jhipster-registry
Feb 2016 - Jan 2020
JHipster Registry, based on Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka and Spring Cloud Config
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 78 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to the frontend and configuration aspects of the JHipster Registry. They added features such as an encryption screen, improved the configuration display with different formats (YAML, properties, JSON, and a table view), and enabled application name autocomplete. Furthermore, the user improved the layout of the logs, and updated the UI to improve the user experience.
spring-bootcloud-configspring-cloud-confignetflixjhipster
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