Summary
Stephane Lapie is an Infrastructure Architect with over 15 years of hands-on systems and network engineering experience, currently leading infrastructure architecture at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo. He specializes in rationalizing and modernizing legacy environments—re-implementing decades-old systems with open source tools, hardening security, and automating infrastructure via Ansible. Fluent and certified in Japanese with two decades of daily use, he often serves as a mediator/translator on international projects, smoothing cross-cultural technical collaboration. His background spans banking-grade systems, disaster recovery, R&D into low-level protocols, and contributions to projects like Unbound, FreeRADIUS and pfSense. Known for pragmatic reverse-engineering under tight deadlines, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a talent for turning undocumented setups into maintainable, secure architectures.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Japanese at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
Master, Systems, Network, Security, Master, Systems, Network, Security at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Master, Security, Systems, Networks, Master, Security, Systems, Networks at EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
French, English, Japanese