Thomas Depierre
System Architect and Programmer
39000, Lons Le Saunier, FR
Thomas is from France. He see himself both as as a Product Oriented Engineer and a Product Minded Engineer . He holds a bachelor in Science and Technologies, with a specialty in CS. He is working presently as a Freelance Developer remotely from France. He spent the past few years helping teams run faster and focus on what matters, through product focus and use of Elixir. He has a keen interest in Cognitive Systems Engineering. His personal interests range from spaceships to Human Factors, but talking about it would take a serious amount time and a reasonable amount of tea. He has a particular interest in building tooling, back-end technologies and bringing products to the next level.
Work Experience
Freelance
Senior Elixir developer
Working remotely to help and support teams using Elixir professionally,
both in software work, but also in helping to organise and change processes.
Regular development of DevOps tooling to smooth up team processes.
Ascential
Ascential Maker Programmer and DevOps
Ascential Makers are a new product oriented organisation in Ascential, aimed at creating new digital products in an agile way. Their goal is to produce organic growth for Ascential.
- Developed multiple apps for wold-class events using React-Native (CannesLions, Money2020).
- Developed the complete build and deployment pipeline for all Makers teams.
- Researched and implemented monitoring and logging tools for all Makers teams
- Organised and supported 3 teams (14 developers) to move TheWork from prototype to release: https://www.lovethework.com/
- Lead architectural refactoring of TheWork for enhance maintainability and better performance.
- Tech lead working closely with Product Owner and stakeholders to bring TheWork to market and scale its user base
PSA Group
Infrastructure Architect and Developer
PSA group's IT department work on handling all the IT for a world scale car manufacturer. It needs to deal with all the internal IT tools needed to keep a complex worldwide set of manufacturing facilities working, but also all the sales department. It also handle all the websites of the group and the needs for data analysis inherent to a complex, worldwide corporation.
- Improved tooling for Incident resolution through data tools (ELK, Grafana, ...)
- Pioneered, designed and championed a new logging, metric storage, monitoring and alerting infrastructure.
- Help understand and modify internal culture and tooling toward DevOps and agility
PSA Group
Data Analyst
- Organized and managed several transversal projects around customer experience and cost cutting
- Cut cost on the HelpDesk, reducing the recurring cost by 200k€/year.
- Developed and installed tools to help analyze data coming from the HelpDesk
TechPower Electronics
Electronic Technician
Technician in charge of new customers with legacy projects at TechPower Electronic , which is a French company producing electromagnetic coils(transformer, ...) and assembling electronic boards and their components.
- Translated legacy Bill of Materials to recent providers and components
- Adapted old datasheet and process to recent workflow
Schneider Electric
Software and Hardware developer
A small complete embedded project (hardware and software). A router aimed to fit into a palmswitch, implementing a full Zigbee protocol stack.
- Full embedded project, both Hardware and Software.
- Developed the full firmware powering the router and every part.
- Multiple parts and interface, from Zigbee to NFC antenna.
Volunteer
Elixir Community Slack
Administrator
- Moderating a multi thousand Slack community around the Elixir language
Talks
Do not do this at home: How we built a distributed datastore in Elixir
Elixirconf 2020
Presenting how a distributed datastore was implemented in Elixir for Haruspex thanks to following product constraints.
Elixir London Meetup Talks
Elixir London Meetup
Multiple talks on safety, programming in Elixir, building Elixir and monitoring Elixir
Programming with Abstract Data Type
Paper We Love remote chapter
Presenting the foundational paper by B. Liskov and S. Zilles introducing the idea of Abstract Data Type (1974).
Education
UTBM
Engineering diploma
UTBM
Bachelor in Science and Technologies
IUT Lyon I
Technical degree
ENSEA
Engineering school
Lycée Victor Hugo
Preparatory Class
Maths and Physics heavy 2 years program. French specific. Feel free to ask about it. Roughly equivalent to a 3 years science and maths license.
Skills
Elixir
Advanced
- Elixir
- Ecto
- Phoenix
- BEAM
Backend
intermediate
- OCaml
- C
Frontend
intermediate
- HTML5
- CSS
- React
- ReasonML
- TailwindCSS
DevOps
intermediate
- AWS
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Ansible
- Nix and Nixos
Database
intermediate
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- NoSQL
Data Analysis
intermediate
- Python
- Maths
- Data sources
System
Thinking
intermediate
- Agile
- Human Factors
- Systems Analysis
- Cognitive Systems Engineering