SIMON CAPLETTE - TECH LEAD, ARCHITECT, DEV & SEC OPS ENGINEER

Located in Paris | LinkedIn Profile | Github Profile

SUMMARY

15 years of experience in cities such as Sydney, London, Paris spanning industries like:

I have been deploying Go in production for the last 9 years, as well as teaching the language and its ecosystem.

Various positions I held:

I also manage and scale engineering teams, applying Extreme Programming techniques for a long time now. I strive for software quality and favor pragmatic and collective approaches. In my daily job, I like to build reliable software products collectively, scale platforms, provide multi-cloud secured infrastructure, find flaws in applications and components, write great and secure APIs as well as harnessing data and creating tools that have an impact!

Strong interests: #Go #CNCF #Kubernetes #KubeInternals #Containers #Fuzzing #AppSec #SecOps #Malware #ML #Ethereum #Layer-2

EDUCATION

OPEN SOURCE

ENTREPRENEURIAL

Founder of REKON Go & security firm and creator of the automated infrastructure analysis tool Surface

WORKSHOPS & TRAINING

I provide Go workshops for companies and also gave training on practices such as: XP, TDD, design and handling large codebase. Here is what people say about them:

"Well balanced hands on intro to Go with clear explanations and instructions. Overall, learned a lot and had fun!" - Developer at YLD
"Great balance of demonstrations vs practice, which worked well for a remote workshop." - Developer at YLD
"10 out of 10!" - Developer at YLD
"Très intéressant. Formateur très pro." - Developer at Ankama
"Bonne ambiance. Enrichissant. Permet de pratiquer différement." - Manager at Email Vision
"Beaucoup d'expérience perso sur le sujet avec un certains nombres d'anecdotes à remonter pour illustrer le sujet." - Developer at Amadeus
"Très instructif. Nouvelle vision sur les process de développements." - Developer at Email Vision
"Rien à redire. Présent. Disponible. À l'écoute." - Developer at Ankama

WORK EXPERIENCE

Tech Lead - REKON

Via my freelancing entity REKON, I offer concrete and extensive hands-on experience at various levels for challenging projects using Go; team practices and testing strategies; product technical design, architecture and infrastructure; security audits and help in threat modeling.

Candy from Jan / November 2022

Working with Candy on their NFT platform that offers a first and second marketplace, and gamification of sports items

Improbable from May / November 2021

Working with Improbable to implement collectively a brand new and modern orchestration platform for the multi-players industry

Principal Engineer - Doctolib

Immersion in various teams to provide targeted implementations, solve technical & performance issues, and audit various internal systems (customized internal CI built on Kubernetes, SMS sending pipeline).

Tech Lead Contractor - Rockside (Backend, Ethereum, Security, Infrastructure & Architecture)

Core Go

DevOps

Security
Others

Tech Lead Contractor - Edulib (Backend, Infra, Scalability & Security)

Tech Lead Contractor - Hivebrite (Security, Infra & Middleware)

Tech Lead - Security firm WALLIX

Principal Backend Scalability Engineer - Streamroot

Talk (Slides | Video) on my work at Streamroot for Technical Paris Meetup: Go and Platform for Realtime processing

Platform Engineer - PrePlaySports

Lead Developer Ruby Contractor - Finexkap

Building a minimum viable product of a web portal verifying customers eligibility for financial factoring.

Ruby Developer Contractor - Hivebrite

Implementing full stack features for an application for private alumni communities. The online product is a white label for business & schools.

Senior Agile Software Consultant - Xebia

Mission as a Xebia consultant:

Within Xebia firm:

Agile Software Developer - Virgin Media (London)

Implementing back-end features for the Virgin e-commerce website offering broadband and adjacent services.

Agile Software Developer - Factset (London)

Overall refactoring with ongoing features of an online Outlook-like service for fund managers and investors.

J2EE Developer - Orbian (London)

Working on the back and front end of a supply chain finance platform that provides business-to-business finance and payment solutions.

GUI Developer & System Designer - Petards (London)

Solo work to create a full in-car detection and alerting system prototype for an upcoming European commission trial.