Yannick Briffa
IT Director Data Platform
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYannick Briffa is an IT Director for Data Platform at OVHcloud with 10 years of hands-on experience evolving from DevOps engineer to team leader and now director-level leadership. Rooted in strong Golang and containerization expertise, he has rebuilt public API engines, launched Cloud Databases offers, and contributed backend features to the open-source utask automation engine. He blends technical problem-solving with people leadership, having taught cloud and security courses at EPITECH while coaching teams through production challenges. A cross-cultural technologist educated in France and the United States, he pairs systems-level thinking with a practical builder’s mindset—known for shipping resilient distributed services and clever automation improvements like nested function support and executor enhancements in orchestration tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBaccalauréat French High-School Sciences diploma - with specification in chemistry and physics, Baccalauréat French High-School Sciences diploma - with specification in chemistry and physics at Edouard VaillantL1 Psychologie, L1 Psychologie at Université de ToursInformation Technology, Information Technology at California State University San Marcos
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
golang10
automation10
automations10
workflow-automation10
go10
go-application10
go-language10
yaml9
api8
apidoc8
devops8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ovh/utask
May 2020 - Jan 2021
µTask is an automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml. ✏️📋
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 55 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily contributed to the development of the `utask` automation engine. Their work involved implementing new features related to functions, including nested function support, pre-hooks, and output rewriting. They also focused on enhancing the core functionality, such as the unmarshalling of echo output and improving the executor framework. Additionally, the user made improvements to the HTTP plugin with the implementation of a digest auth and UUID generation features.
golangworkflowworkflow-automationyamldevops
ovh/public-cloud-databases-examples
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
OVHcloud Public Cloud Databases Training examples
Contributions:22 reviews, 32 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
trainingclouddatabasesdatabaseovhcloud
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