Pierre DULAWA

Rennes, France linkedin.com/in/pierredulawa

I am a 36 years old, DevOps Engineer, graduate of EPITECH 2013.

Since the beginning of my career, I have had the opportunity to work in various companies, ranging from startups to large enterprises, both in France and internationally, across multiple industries.

I specialized in web development early in my studies, recognizing its potential and flexibility.

Since then, I have worked as a Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), gaining comprehensive experience in web engineering.


Experience

2023 - 2024

Site Reliability Engineer @ Beacon Biosignals (USA/France - Remote)

Following the acquisition of Dreem, I joined the SRE Team at Beacon Biosignals.

As a member of this team, I ensured that our AWS infrastructure was reliable, resilient, and secure.

We successfully achieved SOC 2 Type 2 compliance in 2024.

Languages : Python, Go

Tools/Frameworks : AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Github, Datadog

DB : PostgreSQL

2021 - 2023

DevOps Engineer/SRE @ Dreem (Paris, France)

I was responsible for the AWS infrastructure at Dreem, managing over a dozen AWS EKS clusters running on around 60 EC2 instances, over a dozen RDS instances, and about 350 TB of S3 storage across 125 buckets.

Key challenges included: cleaning up technical debt, improving reliability, implementing cost controls, and enforcing HIPAA requirements.

Languages : Python, Go

Tools/Frameworks : AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Github, Datadog, Elasticsearch

DB : PostgreSQL

2019 - 2021

DevOps Engineer @ comet (Paris, France)

As the sole DevOps Engineer, I was responsible for the company’s infrastructure, which included more than 40 instances on AWS, focusing on maintenance, security, reliability, monitoring, and automation.

We built with Terraform, provisioned with Ansible, ran with Kubernetes, monitored with Prometheus, implemented CI/CD with GitLab, and managed logs and traces with Datadog.

Languages : Javascript, Go

Tools/Frameworks : Node.js, Vue.js, Docker, AWS, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Vault

DB : PostgreSQL

2018 - 2019

Lead Backend @ comet (Paris, France)

I was responsible for creating a backend team, expanding it from 2 to 6 engineers in less than 6 months.

My responsibilities included recruitment, developing the onboarding program, people management, performance management, setting and enforcing rules and guidelines, and serving as the technical lead, which involved decision making, strategy, technical debt management, documentation, and mentoring.

2017 - 2018

Backend Engineer @ comet (Paris, France)

My primary responsibility was the development and maintenance of our microservices backend, including a GraphQL API.

I also worked on migrating all backend services from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes for both production and staging environments.

Additionally, I developed a tool to create short-lived, on-demand sandboxed environments replicating production for testing and QA purposes using the Kubernetes API and GitLab API.

Languages : Javascript

Tools/Frameworks : Node.js, Vue.js, Docker, AWS, Gitlab, Kubernetes

DB : PostgreSQL

2017 - 2017

Web Engineer @ Smile Open Source Solutions (Montpellier, France)

I worked on two projects here : maintenance of a big e-commerce website & maintenance of a web-based internal tool for a huge company.

Languages : PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Tools/Frameworks : Symfony 2, Laravel, jQuery, Docker

DB : MySQL

2015 - 2017

CTO co-founder @ Check and Move (Paris, France)

As a CTO of this small company I was in charge of multiple things : API development, infrastructure on AWS, frontend development of the website and project management.

Languages : PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Tools/Frameworks : Symfony 2/3, Node.js, Vue.js, Vagrant, Ansible, AWS

DB : MySQL

2014 - 2015

Web Engineer @ Smartplace (Paris, France)

SmartPlace is a web app CRM with a reactive frontend. My mission was to maintain the code base and develop new features for the customers.

Languages : PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Tools/Frameworks : Symfony 2, jQuery

DB: MySQL

2014 - 2014

Web Developer @ Webfutur (Bordeaux, France)

Development and maintenance of a variety of projects in the agency. Facebook games, advertising websites and web apps for clients internal usage.

Languages : PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Tools/Frameworks : Drupal, Wordpress, jQuery

DB : MySQL

2011 - 2012

Full Stack Web Developer @ Holler Sydney (Sydney, Australia)

Backend & Frontend development on large audience ephemeral advertising websites, rich Facebook Fan Pages for national and international brands.

Languages : PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Tools/Frameworks : Zend Framework, Symfony 2, Facebook API, GoogleMaps API

DB : MySQL

2011 - 2012

Web Developer @ Axestech (Bordeaux, France)

Worked as a part-time Web Developer in this web agency, alongside my studies.

Languages : PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Tools/Frameworks : CodeIgniter, Doctrine ORM, Facebook API, Twitter API, GoogleMaps API, jQuery

DB : MySQL

Education

2008 - 2013

Computer Expert Diploma @ EPITECH (Paris, France)

I learned through the years how to : code, work with other people, manage other people and achieve IT projects.

2011 - 2012

Master of Business Information Systems @ Australian Catholic University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)

I was taught how to see IT projects from a business point of view and how to solve businesses problems with technical solutions.

2004 - 2008

High School Diploma @ Lycée Professionnel St-Genès (Bordeaux, France)

Specialized in computing and networking.

Skills

Languages
Go
PHP
JavaScript / TypeScript
SQL
HTML - CSS
Development
Vue.js - Node.js
PostgreSQL - MySQL
Symfony 2 & 3
Tools
AWS
Kubernetes - Docker
Terraform - Pulumi - Ansible
Git - Github - Gitlab
Prometheus - Grafana
Specialization
Cloud Environments
Processes Automation
Backend Software Design
Human Languages
French (native)
English (fluent)

Source: https://pierredulawa.fr | Updated 02/2025

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