resume.json

{
    "basics": {
        "name": "Matcha (Chloe) Desoutter",
        "label": "Staff Software Engineer",
        "summary": "I am passionate about engineering, engineers, developer experience, and problem solving. I started my career in backend engineering, pushed forward with R&D, helped a number of companies transition to DevOps, and now take pride in forming communities of engineers centered around problem solving, tech stacks, and improving efficiency in this post-COVID world in which physical spaces are harder to navigate. I'm obsessive about defining the problem space well and love delivering the right solution at the right time. I also love programming and constructing beautiful software designs.\n",
        "email": "ds.tt.rc@gmail.com",
        "phone": "+33659906332",
        "url": "https://matchaxnb.github.io",
        "pro files": [
            {
                "network": "LinkedIn",
                "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matcha-d/"
            },
            {
                "network": "Twitter",
                "username": "matcha_x"
            },
            {
                "network": "GitHub",
                "url": "https://github.com/matchaxnb",
                "username": "matchaxnb"
            }
        ],
        "location": {
            "countryCode": "FR",
            "city": "Paris"
        }
    },
    "skills": [
        {
            "name": "Navigating challenges",
            "level": "advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Developer Experience",
                "Open Source",
                "Distributed architecture"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Acting on critical engineering domains",
            "level": "advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Large databases",
                "Platform Abstraction",
                "Cross-domain communication",
                "Time-constrained processing"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Acting on critical people challenges in Engineering",
            "level": "advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Forming communities",
                "scaling up engineering into communities"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Engineering Processes",
            "level": "advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "Kanban",
                "Scrum"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Software Architecture",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Distributed systems",
                "Scalable systems"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Developer Experience",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Forming communities",
                "Backstage",
                "Developer-centric infrastructure",
                "Bridging knowledge gaps"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Free/OSS and Engineering culture",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Communities of Practice",
                "Inner Source",
                "Meetups",
                "Talks"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Software engineering and development",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Python",
                "Golang",
                "NodeJS",
                "PHP",
                "Bash and POSIX shell",
                "problem solving"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Relational database systems",
            "level": "advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "PostgreSQL",
                "MariaDB",
                "MySQL"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Enterprise server environments",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "GNU/Linux",
                "Debian",
                "Alpine"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "AWS Cloud architecture",
            "level": "advanced"
        },
        {
            "name": "Cloud environments",
            "level": "advanced",
            "keywords": [
                "AWS",
                "Scaleway"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "DevOps tooling and processes",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Git",
                "GitLab",
                "GitHub",
                "Ansible",
                "Terraform",
                "Infrastructure as Code",
                "Engineering Assets Management"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Virtualization",
            "level": "full-proficiency",
            "keywords": [
                "VMWare ESXi and vSphere",
                "Hyper-V",
                "Proxmox",
                "KVM",
                "bhyve"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Containers and Orchestration",
            "level": "expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Kubernetes operations",
                "Docker",
                "Packer",
                "security scanners"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "work": [
        {
            "name": "sennder GmbH",
            "position": "Staff Software Engineer, Platform",
            "url": "https://sennder.com",
            "startDate": "2021-05-01",
            "summary": "As a Staff Software Engineer in the Platform BA, I take part in building sennder's internal platform that helps developers deploy numerous services as the company switches from a monolithic app model to a distributed asynchronous architecture. I also initiate the Developer Experience initiative and set the company on a path towards friction-less knowledge sharing across an Engineering community of 200+ people. When I am not doing this, I interview a large number of engineers so that more talented people join forces with us\n",
            "highlights": [
                "devops",
                "architecture",
                "technical leadership",
                "developer experience",
                "open source"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "bluenove",
            "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
            "url": "https://bluenove.com",
            "startDate": "2019-04-01",
            "endDate": "2021-05-01",
            "summary": "DevOps-wise, I build the tools that deploy stacks of open source collective intelligence solutions and as co-Tech Lead I help developers study technical problems and produce elegant and efficient algorithmic and architectural solutions to these.\n",
            "highlights": [
                "devops",
                "architecture",
                "technical leadership",
                "system administration",
                "network administration",
                "relational databases",
                "development",
                "security",
                "containers"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Believe Digital",
            "url": "https://www.believe.com/",
            "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer and System Administrator",
            "startDate": "2017-01-01",
            "endDate": "2019-04-01",
            "summary": "As an experienced DevOps/sysadmin leading (tech-wise) a team of 4, we build together a better, more modern infrastructure for petabyte-scale data management and processing. We face numerous technical and security challenges to deliver the best, most reliable service to our team of 50 developers and their ever-growing number of customers.\n",
            "highlights": [
                "devops",
                "security",
                "storage",
                "system administration",
                "linux",
                "network administration",
                "containers"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "NBS System",
            "url": "https://www.nbs-system.com/",
            "position": "R&D Engineer",
            "summary": "I work in the 3-person R&D team as a backend python developer, solving problems pertaining to scaling an Information System, general performance, reliability. I also perform consulting missions for clients who need special expertise on relational databases.\n",
            "highlights": [
                "devops",
                "system administration",
                "linux",
                "relational databases",
                "development"
            ],
            "startDate": "2015-01-01",
            "endDate": "2017-01-01"
        },
        {
            "name": "Atasta SAS",
            "summary": "I am in charge of the infrastructure aspects of this small company, and also team with the other employees in tasks of software development and deployment. I also assess skills and interview candidates. I do a number of technical meetings, audit sessions, consulting with clients, and help the company shape its general technical direction\n",
            "startDate": "2012-01-01",
            "endDate": "2015-01-01",
            "highlights": [
                "devops",
                "sysadmin",
                "development",
                "linux",
                "relational databases",
                "auditing"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Freelancer",
            "position": "Technical Consultant",
            "summary": "I provide small and medium businesses with consulting on their database and web stacks, help them with online shop migrations and general IT operations, system architecture reviews and more services.\n",
            "highlights": [
                "devops",
                "system administration",
                "ecommerce",
                "relational databases",
                "development",
                "security",
                "containers"
            ],
            "startDate": "2010-01-01",
            "endDate": "2019-01-01"
        },
        {
            "name": "Nerim SAS",
            "summary": "I work as a system administrator in web hosting and network support, handling tickets and managing relations with customers.\n",
            "startDate": "2009-01-01",
            "endDate": "2009-07-01",
            "highlights": [
                "customer management",
                "system administration",
                "linux"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "education": [
        {
            "studyType": "STEM training",
            "institution": "Self-training"
        },
        {
            "studyType": "AWS Solutions Architect \u2013 Associate",
            "date": 2016
        },
        {
            "studyType": "Advanced PostgreSQL DBA",
            "date": 2014,
            "institution": "Dalibo"
        },
        {
            "studyType": "DUT Informatique",
            "date": 2008,
            "institution": "IUT de Lens, France",
            "courses": [
                "Software development",
                "System administration",
                "Project management"
            ]
        },
        {
            "studyType": "Baccalaur\u00e9at scientifique",
            "date": 2006,
            "institution": "Lyc\u00e9e \u00c9douard Branly, Boulogne sur Mer, France",
            "courses": [
                "maths",
                "physics",
                "mechanics",
                "electronics",
                "philosophy"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "languages": [
        {
            "language": "French",
            "fluency": "CEFR-C2",
            "years": 34
        },
        {
            "language": "English",
            "fluency": "CEFR-C2",
            "years": 24
        },
        {
            "language": "German",
            "fluency": "CEFR-A2",
            "years": 20
        },
        {
            "language": "Dutch",
            "fluency": "CEFR-A2",
            "years": 10
        },
        {
            "language": "Hebrew",
            "fluency": "CEFR-A1",
            "years": 10
        }
    ],
    "projects": [
        {
            "name": "Speaker at CodePub Berlin meets Sennder",
            "location": "Berlin, Germany",
            "startDate": "2021-11-29",
            "endDate": "2021-11-29",
            "keywords": [
                "feminism",
                "women-in-tech",
                "devops",
                "education",
                "stem"
            ],
            "type": "workshop",
            "summary": "I introduced the concepts of DevOps and Agile development to a feminine and non-binary audience typically under-represented and showed how it actually is about empowering developers and people in general by focusing on achievable delivery, quicker value cycles, and on building ecosystems.\n"
        }
    ],
    "references": [
        {
            "name": "Manu Ustenko, Manager at sennder GmbH",
            "reference": "I was working with Matcha as a peer and then as a manager for about 2 years. I would highly recommend Matcha as a proven expert in software development. She is smart, precise, and attentive to details. She is able to take a task, make the entire research, and finally implement it. On the other side, it is easy to communicate with Matcha. She is able to explain difficult concepts with easy language.\n"
        }
    ],
    "interests": [
        {
            "name": "Queer rights",
            "activity": "I am an activist for the rights and autonomy of queer and disabled people"
        },
        {
            "name": "Making music",
            "activity": "I create electronic music and maintain old (analog) synthesizers. I also play guitar and piano."
        },
        {
            "name": "Live music",
            "activity": "I am fond of attending electronic music events of all sorts."
        },
        {
            "name": "Literature",
            "activity": "I am a sci-fi buff, also a dedicated reader of Pratchett, Gaiman, Iain M. Banks and other prominent authors."
        },
        {
            "name": "Cinema",
            "activity": "I love movies in general and art movies in particular."
        },
        {
            "name": "Open Source",
            "activity": "I contribute to a number of open source projects both as part of my professional activities and outside of work"
        },
        {
            "name": "Science",
            "activity": "I am passionate about maths (especially statistics), physics, chemistry, electronics, and spend a hefty amount of time reading or educating myself about these topics."
        },
        {
            "name": "Social sciences",
            "activity": "I am fond of philosophy and sociology and also have a decent education level in these."
        },
        {
            "name": "Analog photography",
            "activity": "I shoot and process photos made using mechanical cameras and film (rolls and plates)."
        },
        {
            "name": "Wikipedia",
            "activity": "I'm a Wikipedia contributor since 2005"
        },
        {
            "name": "Internet civil rights activism",
            "activity": "I have been a member or participant in various actions for civil rights on the Internet since 2008"
        }
    ]
}