Pierre DULAWA

Rennes, France linkedin.com/in/pierredulawa

I am a 37 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

2025 - 2026

DevOps Engineer/SRE @ Playruo (France - Remote)

Playruo enables video game studios to engage players via one-click, in-browser demos.

I served as the sole DevOps/SRE engineer owning full-lifecycle infrastructure management, including architecture design, deployment, maintenance, and observability.

I also contributed heavily on our product relying on advanced infrastructure orchestration to be able to handle quick scaling over many regions (EU/USA) on AWS and GCP.

Languages : Go

Tools/Frameworks : AWS, GCP, Grafana Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Gitlab

DB : PostgreSQL

2023 - 2024

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

Joined the SRE team following the strategic acquisition of Dreem.

We maintained and optimized a highly reliable, resilient, and secure AWS infrastructure to support core engineering operations.

I played a key role in successfully driving the infrastructure and internal processes to achieve 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)

Dreem manufactured advanced headbands for sleep brain monitoring and analysis.

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)

comet is a platform that matches freelancers with the perfect jobs available.

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

2015 - 2017

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

Check and Move was an all-in-one sports app designed to create, organize, and discover sports sessions, streamline team recruitment, and boost player engagement.

As a CTO of this small company I was in charge of multiple things : full-stack development, infrastructure on AWS and project management for mobile-apps.

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)
2014 - 2014
Web Developer @ Webfutur (Bordeaux, France)
2011 - 2012
Full Stack Web Developer @ Holler Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
2011 - 2012
Web Developer @ Axestech (Bordeaux, France)

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 - GCP
Kubernetes - Docker
Terraform - Pulumi - Ansible - Packer
Git - Github - Gitlab
Prometheus - Grafana
Specialization
Cloud Environments
Processes Automation
Backend Software Design
Human Languages
French (native)
English (fluent)

Source: https://pierredulawa.fr | Updated 06/2026

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