Guillaume Morin

Guillaume Morin

Engineering manager

Summary

  • Technical team management
  • Recruitment
  • Performance evaluation
  • Agile methodologies
  • High availability environment

Work Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Algolia, Paris

November 2018 - present

Manager of the Engine team (25 engineers, 2 managers): Insights, Search Core, Search NLP, Relevance automation and Perso
French/american company, communication strictly in English
Main projects:
- Task forces, a framework for managers and engineers to collaborate on cross-squads initiatives
- Management training, implementing co-development meeting with managers to help them grow
- On call revamp, guiding squads in the definition of their SLO and on call process

SRE manager

Alkemics, Paris

June 2016 - October 2018

Management of a cross functional team of devops, QA engineers and system engineers
Continuous integration and deployment with Pillar, a custom stack using Jenkins and Docker
Worldwide monitoring of our platform to track and improve our SLA
Bootstrap a pragmatic process to eliminate critical security risks for the company's business and prepare for ISO27001 certification and GDPR compliance
Hosting and infrastructure related services contracts negociation and follow-up

Head of Production & Infrastructure

Alkemics, Paris

May 2015 - June 2016

Build and manage the infrastructure team
Design & implement automated solutions to enhance the stability, scalability & availability of our products
Monitor the health of our systems and solve problems with the software engineering team
Design & maintain our cloud based infrastructure
Data Protection Officer

System and Network Architect

Le Monde Intéractif, Paris

July 2013 - May 2015

Web environment under heavy load - up to 2 million unique visitors a day
Audit of the web hosting platform
Security of the platform - crisis management during attack from the electronic syrian army
Study of the migration into a public cloud
Benchmark of the clouds of Amazon and Google
Modernization of the infrastructure : virtualization, configuration management, monitoring...

Technical team leader

Ekino, Levallois-Perret

May 2009 - June 2013

Recruitment, training and management of a team of 11 engineers
Architecture of the web hosting platforms
Responsible of the maintenance in operational condition of all the hosting platforms of the group
Main projects : Setup and management of the hosting platform of Renault Europe (about 90 servers), setup of a second active datacenter, inscription to the RIPE to get an AS and deploy our routers to manager our own IPv4 and IPv6 networks, deployment automation.

System and Network Engineer

Fullsix, Levallois-Perret

October 2004 - April 2009

Management of mutualized web and mail platforms
Intensive usage of Apache, Tomcat, ZXTM, Mysql, Oracle, Netfilter/Iptables...
Drafting and applying security and backup policies
Daily scripting in shell and Perl
Main projects : Installation of the hosting platform of www.sfr.fr, relocation of the company's head office and servers' room, complete rework of the mutualized hosting platform

IT Service Manager

Lejay-Lagoute, Dijon

May 2002 - August 2004

Architecture of the internal network
Administration of the servers of the company : Firewalls, SMTP, file servers...
Webmaster : rework of the three web sites of the company
Lead on several IT projects : selection of a new ERP, deployment of an ethernet and wifi network, development of the intranet, installation of a server's room with air conditionning and access control

System and Network Administrator

ActiveNet, Dijon

January 2002 - April 2002

Deployment of Enterprise networks
Installation of file servers, DNS, DHCP, SMTP on Windows and Linux

System Administrator and Web Developer

Sysif, Dijon

March 2000 - December 2001

Co-founder
Management of the internal network and services
Software development in C++ and Perl
Web development in PHP/Mysql

Education

PostgreSQL 9 Administration and Advanced Concepts

2014 - 2nd Quadrant, Paris

H0B0V Electrical certification

2011 - Sofis, Etel

BTS Informatique de Gestion

2004 - Dijon Formation, Quétigny

Windows 2003 Server Administration

2004 - CP Interactive, Quétigny

DBMS MySQL Administration

2001 - MetaConcept, Velesmes

Language

French

Native language

English

Good spoken and written english.

German

Basic knowledge