Sylvain MÉTAYER

Experience

1. 2017-09 → present

   onepointBordeaux (33)

   1. Developer, permanent contract 2019-08 → present · Bègles (33)

      • Ansible, Centreon monitoring, SQL and work with the HDS-certified host for the GIP ORU Occitanie.
      • Kubernetes infrastructure for Châlons-en-Champagne (Rancher, Ansible).
      • Managed Kubernetes on OVHcloud (Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab CI) for the projects of onepoint's publishing unit.
      • New features for a flex office application (Java, Quarkus, Angular) and mentoring of junior developers.
      • Concert venue website (Angular, PHP, NestJS) on AWS (Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins), handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections.
      • Set up and documented a software forge for the French National Housing Agency (Anah) (Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, GitLab CI).
      • BNPPRE Drupal intranet and a daily import of hundreds of thousands of rows.

   2. Work-study contract, EPSI Bordeaux 2017-09 → 2019-07 · Pessac (33)

      • Maintenance and new features for Bureau Veritas' websites, including the Symfony 2 to 3 migration (Symfony, Angular).
      • Drupal websites for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, shared modules and automated deployment (Jenkins, Ansible).

   Work-study thesis (in French): How can automation improve an application’s lifecycle?

   I also speak at conferences about SOPS, asdf, workstation automation and running Kubernetes across two sites. Slides and recordings are on the talks page.

2. 2016-09 → 2017-09

   AtosPessac (33)

   1. Work-study contract, DAWIN professional bachelor's degree 2016-09 → 2017-09 · Pessac (33)

      • Built a GDPR personal data mapping tool supporting multiple RDBMS, as part of a team of 3 work-study students. Developed in Python 3.

   More details in the project article.

3. 2016-04 → 2016-07

   NextMediaClermont-Ferrand (63)

   1. DUT internship 2016-04 → 2016-07 · Clermont-Ferrand (63)

      • Developed the first version of a release management tool (Symfony 2) for the company's flagship product (Quizzbox) and set up automated deployments with Capistrano.

Talks

1. 2025

   A Kubernetes cluster across two sites: just a simple matter of availability, right?

   France DevOps 2025, Cloud Toulouse 2025

2. 2024 → 2025

   SOPS: clean up your plaintext secrets!

   BDX I/O 2025, Touraine Tech 2025, SnowCamp 2025, DevFest Toulouse 2024, Sunny Tech 2024, BreizhCamp 2024, Devoxx France 2024

3. 2023 → 2024

   asdf, one tool for all your versions

   BreizhCamp 2024, Devoxx France 2024, DevFest Nantes 2023

4. 2023 → 2025

   Automate your workstation setup!

   Touraine Tech 2025, Devoxx UK 2024, Devoxx France 2024, SnowCamp 2024, BDX I/O 2023, Sunny Tech 2023

5. 2022

   Terraform: a developer's lessons learned

   Meetup onepoint 2022

Slides and recordings

Education

1. 2017 → 2019

   EPSI BordeauxBordeaux (33)

2. 2016 → 2017

   DAWIN Professional Bachelor's Degree (Web Application Development and Digital Innovation)IUT de Bordeaux (33)

   Completed as a work-study program at Atos, this degree gave me my first real professional experience.

3. 2013 → 2016

   DUT Informatique (two-year technical degree in Computer Science)IUT du Limousin (87)

   This program gave me solid programming foundations without neglecting general subjects such as English, accounting and mathematics. It ended with a 2-month internship at the IT services company NextMedia.

4. 2013

   Baccalauréat Scientifique (science-track high school diploma)Lycée Ernest Pérochon, Parthenay (79)

   Engineering Sciences option

Certifications

1. 2025-11

   AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

   Earned in July 2021, renewed in November 2025.

2. 2024-02

   Opquast

   Applying web quality assurance rules and vocabulary in day-to-day professional practice.

3. 2018-02

   TOEIC

   I took and passed the TOEIC three times during my studies, as a valid TOEIC score was required to graduate with my master's-level degree. Score on the latest attempt: 855 / 990.

4. 2017-07

   Opquast

   Earned during my DAWIN professional bachelor's degree. Score: 900 points.

5. 2014-01

   C2i

Skills

Infra & cloud

• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• OpenTofu
• Ansible
• Docker
• AWS
• OVHcloud

CI/CD

• GitLab CI
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• ArgoCD
• Nexus

Languages

• Python
• PHP
• Java
• Bash
• Node.js

Frameworks

• Symfony
• Drupal
• NestJS
• Angular

Tools

• Linux
• Git
• MySQL / MariaDB

Languages

• French · Native
• English · TOEIC 855 / 990

Interests

• Homelab and self-hosting · Proxmox, OpenTofu, Pangolin
• Board games
• Table tennis · Ping Tour host at FLIP (Parthenay), 2013-2015
• TV series