Name
nrenault—systems engineer
Synopsis
Description
Twenty years of Linux systems engineering. I learned the trade at Orange in Paris, in high-traffic production environments, then rebuilt a company's infrastructure across two continents. High-traffic hosting has been the constant: platforms that fall over loudly when you get it wrong.
Since March 2025, systems engineer at SINET. Since 2014 I have also worked independently under the name Noriade — system administration, architecture and hosting — for Le Bonbon, Orange Applications for Business, Youscribe, Wynd, Pixelis and others.
I prefer self-hosted over managed, simple solutions over magic tricks, and a versioned config in Git over one that depends on a single person's memory.
Options
- -p, --platforms
- Server and virtual machine operations; procedures, documentation and automation that make production predictable.
- -v, --virtualisation
- Capacity planning, hardware refresh, and live migrations that finish before anyone notices.
- -w, --web-data
- High-traffic portals, cache strategy, load balancing, and work on availability and scaling.
- -a, --automation
- Inventory as the single source of truth; deployments that are reproducible rather than remembered.
- -c, --cloud
- Certified on Azure Fundamentals and Alibaba Cloud, 2020.
- -o, --observability
- Alerts that mean something, dashboards nobody has to explain.
- -g, --governance
- Architecture, change management, incident reviews, documentation and steering committees — the part of the job that turns decisions into workable practice.
History
| Period | Position |
|---|---|
| 2025 — | SINET Sole engineer responsible for the server and virtualisation estate, across the ISP and its associated companies. |
| 2020 – 2023 | Sabay Digital Corporation · Phnom Penh, Cambodia Server and VM maintenance, with roughly 70% of the work focused on Ansible automation, alongside systems administration, support and other operational tasks. |
| 2018 – 2019 | KSO Asia · Phnom Penh, Cambodia Linux and Windows estate operated on behalf of Oceanet Technology. |
| 2013 – 2015 | Eonian Technology Inc · Paris / Orlando / Barcelona Systems engineering on a distributed web infrastructure. |
| 2010 – 2013 | Orange · Bagnolet, France Systems engineering for very high-traffic applications and web portals on Orange Portails: service platforms, operational coverage and technical governance. |
| 2008 – 2010 | Orange (prestation) · Bagnolet, France Open-source system administrator within Orange Portails, across roughly 3,000 servers on three sites. |
| 2005 – 2008 | R2I Santé · Paris, France Support apprenticeships, then technical consultant for Normandy and Brittany: audits, Debian deployments and level-3 incidents. |
| 2004 – 2005 | eZone · Paris, France IT support apprenticeship, maintaining Debian and FreeBSD workstations and servers. |
Independent work since 2014, under the name Noriade. Nine years with Le Bonbon (2016–2025), running 24/7 Linux infrastructure for high-traffic publishing, and support engineering for Orange Business Services (2016–2017) on large accounts including Auchan and La Poste. Other engagements: Youscribe, Wynd, Pixelis, EasyRecrue, Parzen, Eurogem.
Full history: /cv · machine-readable as cv.json and cv.yaml.
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