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Alexandre
Laurans

Senior Platform Engineer · SRE Tech Lead

I build internal platforms developers actually want to use. 10 years shipping cloud & on-prem infrastructure — Kubernetes, AWS, Azure — currently at Kiln.

Scale

Operated 47 Kubernetes clusters across 22 cloud and on-prem regions.

Ownership

Owned SRE roadmaps with CTOs; led teams of senior engineers.

Breadth

10 years in production across AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway, and on-prem.

Developer Experience

Platforms as products — developer self-service from commit to production.

Security

Security by design — workload identity, zero trust at scale, supply-chain hardening, secrets management.

Experience

  1. Kiln

    Senior Platform Engineer · 2026 — now

    • Platform engineering & SRE for enterprise-grade digital-asset infrastructure.
    • Building AI-assisted tooling and agentic workflows for the platform team.

  2. Hublo

    Tech Lead SRE · Senior SRE Platform · 2024 — 2026

    • Owned the SRE roadmap with the CTO; led a team of 3 senior engineers.
    • Completed the ECS→EKS migration, then rebuilt the AWS network foundation (VPC & IP addressing design) to unblock multi-region growth.
    • Drove adoption of AI tooling and agentic platforms across engineering.

  3. SOPHiA GENETICS

    Cloud Architect (Azure) · Senior Software Engineer · 2022 — 2024

    • Operated 47 Kubernetes clusters across 22 Azure regions for a global genomics SaaS.
    • Migrated 15 TB of on-prem data to Azure with Data Factory.
    • Coordinated distributed engineering teams across Europe.

  4. Ippon Technologies

    Cloud & DevOps Consultant · 2020 — 2022

    • Actia Automotive — software forge modernization, Azure landing zones, Kubernetes execution platform.
    • Berger-Levrault — monolith→microservices replatforming: Istio, Tekton, ArgoCD, security-by-design; developer platform on K8s.
    • Twelv — sovereign-cloud SaaS architecture on Scaleway Kubernetes.

Earlier: DevOps Engineer @ SKALE-5 (2021–22) · DevOps Architect @ RGPD Web (2019) · DevOps Architect & IT Manager @ Genesis Groupe (2018–19)

Stack

Orchestration

Kubernetes · Crossplane · Helm · Kustomize

Clouds

AWS · Azure · GCP · Scaleway

IaC

Terraform · Pulumi · Crossplane · Ansible · Packer

GitOps & CI/CD

ArgoCD · Flux · GitLab CI · GitHub Actions · Tekton

Observability

Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · OpenTelemetry

Networking

Cilium · Istio · Gateway API · Hub&Spoke · Network Policy

Security & Identity

SPIFFE · SOPS · Vault · Wiz · IdP · ZeroTrust

Messaging

Kafka · NATS

AI platforms

Agentic workflows · LLM infrastructure · MCP