Thomas Decaux
Tech Lead SRE at NAVAL GROUP
Sanary-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolThomas Decaux is a Tech Lead SRE with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and observability stacks from France’s Provence coast. He blends SRE, platform and data engineering expertise—Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, Spark and Elasticsearch—to migrate and run large-scale systems reliably, with recent leadership at Naval Group and Petal. Thomas has built on-premise privacy-respecting analytics at Qwant processing hundreds of millions of events daily and engineered both batch and real-time lambda-style data architectures. He is an active open-source contributor, improving health checks and test coverage for widely used projects like Argo CD and Elastic Helm charts, showing a focus on reliability and automation. Equally comfortable in backend development (PHP/Symfony, Java, Node.js) and infrastructure as code, he pairs pragmatic engineering with CI/CD and monitoring know-how. Colleagues describe him as a persistent problem-solver who prefers fixing tricky production reliability and observability issues over flashy prototypes.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Diplôme d'ingénieur at ISEN Toulon
French, English
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Github Skills (66)
testing10
argocd10
lua10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
javascript10
amazon-elasticsearch10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
kubernetes10
cicd10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/helm-charts
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
You know, for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 17 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's contributions primarily involve writing and modifying tests for the Helm charts, ensuring the proper configuration and functionality of various components within the Kubernetes environment. They focused on validating configurations for Elastic's products, including Metricbeat, Kibana, APM Server, and Logstash, by adding tests for new features and verifying existing configurations. The user also fixed a YAML loading warning in test helpers and added load balancer IP and pod affinity tests.
kubernetes-clusterk8skuberneteshelm
argoproj/argo-cd
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 2 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to health check implementations for various components like Elasticsearch, Percona XtraDB Cluster, snapshot volumes, and Elastic Beats. They also added and updated UI tests, specifically focusing on application list functionality. These contributions demonstrate a focus on ensuring application health and reliability alongside efforts to improve the UI testing coverage.
cdcontinuous-deploymentdokkupipelinehelm
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