Sam Dumont

Sam Dumont

Founder

Biography

Experienced Cloud architect. DevOps evangelist. Enjoy to break silos and improve processes. Loves endurance sports. Always eager to try new technologies.

Expertise
  • DevOps and Agile 🤸‍♀️
  • Cloud Architecture and Engineering 🏗️
  • IT Security 🛡
  • Software Development 🛠
Education
  • Bachelor in computer science, 2014

    Haute Ecole de Bruxelles

  • Bachelor in visual arts, photography, 2010

    Ecole supérieure des arts de l'image, le 75

Hobbies and Interests
  • Running 🏃‍♂️
  • Cycling 🚴‍♂️
  • Domotics 🏠
  • Homebrewing 🍻
  • Heavy Metal 🤘

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Freelance Data Platform Team Engineer
Oct 2023 – Present Antwerp, Belgium

Member of the Data Platform team, enabling internal stakeholders to store, transform and consume the large amount of data gathered by DPG Media.

  • Designed and built a modern data platform based on AWS and Airflow, multitenant and secured
  • Improved cost and resources usage
 
 
 
 
 
Freelance Garmin ConnectIQ Developer
Jan 2024 – Present Pafos, Cyprus
  • Developing the Garmin Connect IQ datafield for the Darefore sensor
  • Improving and extending BLE capabilities of the sensor
  • Cycling a lot to test the features 😇
 
 
 
 
 
Freelance Garmin ConnectIQ Developer
Jun 2023 – Present Boulder, CO, USA

Main Garmin ConnectIQ developer, helping Stryd implementing new features in their Garmin datafield.

  • Hired based on my open-source work on RunPowerWorkout
  • Part-time contract, maximum 25 hours per month.
 
 
 
 
 
Technical Account Manager
Sep 2022 – Oct 2023 Brussels, Belgium
Designated technical point of contact for large entreprise customers. Help them onboard, provides advocacy and guidance to plan and build solutions using best practices, coordinates access to subject matter experts, assists with case management, presents insights and recommendations on their AWS spend, workload optimization, and event management, and proactively keeps their AWS environment healthy.
 
 
 
 
 
Lead Cloud Engineer
Apr 2020 – Sep 2022 Leuven, Belgium

Design and/or implement cloud architectures for customers in various industries such as Finance (Bank Delen, KBC), Pharmaceuticals (UCB), Government (FedPol), Food and Beverages (AB InBev, Puratos), amongst others. Built solutions using the three major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). Involvement ranges from short-term cloud engineering hands-on role, to large end-to-end cloud architectures.

Provide support for colleagues in other projects regarding cloud architecture, devops principles and tools or low-level infrastructure debugging.

Lead of an 8 persons team, coaching and guiding them in their career path. Instructor in the internal academy, teaching twice a year topics such as “Security in the Cloud” or “Hands-On Kubernetes”.

 
 
 
 
 
DevOps Chapter Lead / DevOps and Cloud engineer
May 2018 – Apr 2020 Brussels, Belgium

In-house DevOps evangelist. Goal of the chapter is to help adoption of DevOps culture and practices across teams and ensures they can become as autonomous as possible during the lifecycle of their applications

  • Responsible for 3 DevOps engineers. Together, working hand in hand with teams to identify pain points and remove them.
  • Member of the IT Architecture Board, alongside the CIO and other IT leads, designing together the future of the company’s technological stack.

Design and implementation of a modern hybrid cloud platform, self-manageable by developers. Grew from a single person ”PoC size” project to an AWS multi-account structure with multiple production workloads and a team of 5 persons over the course of 18 months.

  • Based on Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift)
  • Self documented and auditable with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
  • CI/CD with Gitlab, integrated with JIRA, SonarQube and Nexus through custom gateways. Homemade library of pipelines blocks and application templates for quick bootstrap.
  • Offers services by default, with zero configuration needed from the developers: monitoring (Dynatrace), logging (CloudWatch/EFK), service mesh (Istio).
  • Built following the best practices from AWS, RedHat and independant advisors.
 
 
 
 
 
Linux/AIX engineer
Sep 2017 – May 2018 Brussels, Belgium

Maintenance and improvements of the Linux environment.

Cross-departement collaboration to help improve the deployment of digital team applications.

Shipping of new applications is now fully working with Ansible.

Definition and implementation of a patch management procedure, based on RedHat satellite and Ansible.

 
 
 
 
 
Infrastructure and Security Engineer
Feb 2015 – Sep 2017 Brussels, Belgium

Bridge between security and infrastructure, helping the CISO to install, configure and manage security systems in Keytrade’s infrastructure. Various works on innovative projects for the infrastructure team.

  • Modernization and consolidation of the VMware environment
  • Bridge building between development and infrastructure teams (”DevOps” mentality): evangelization of automation, creation of Ansible playbooks, automated build through JIRA
  • Consolidation of the log infrastructure
  • Replacement of Nagios by Icinga and Grafana Dashboards
  • Many security systems implementation (user traffic proxy, vulnerability scanner, IAM)
 
 
 
 
 
System Administrator and Web Developer
Jul 2014 – Feb 2015 Brussels, Belgium
Managed the day to day network and system operations in an heterogenous environment.

Skills

AWS

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Apache Airflow

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Ansible

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Architecture

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Azure

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Bash

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Digital Ocean

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Docker

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Dynatrace

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Garmin CIQ

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Gitlab CI

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Go

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GCP

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Grafana

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Helm

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Jenkins

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Kubernetes

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Node.js

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OpenShift

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Powershell

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Python

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Terraform

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VMware

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