Hi, I am Ludo

I am a Cloud Solution Architect
I work with VMware products and Kubernetes
I love automating everything !

Ludovic Rivallain

Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft

I am a passionate Cloud Solution Architect with 14 years of working experience. I belong to the Customer Success Unit, to guide our customers in their cloud journey. I offer guidance and best practices recommendations, and I design, test and validate infrastructures that suit customers needs.

I also maintain a technical blog: vuptime.io focused on virtualization & IT automation.

Fast Learner

Problem Solving

Assertiveness

Team Work

Communication

Creativity

Skills

Modern applications

Design and deploy K8S and event-driven based infrastructures.

Virtualization

Deploy and manage VMware products, Cloud Management platforms, OpenStack…

Systems

Use most popular Operating Systems (Linux, Windows Server, MacOS)

Programming

Python and bash addict. Powershell enthusiast.

Networking

Fluent with most concepts of networking and networking security.

Hardware

Work experience with Dell, Cisco and HPE server blades

Methodology

Scrum/Agile, DevOps

Experience

Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft

November 2021 - Present, Bordeaux, France

Responsibilities:

VMware Senior Engineer

Claranet

September 2021 - October 2021, Bordeaux, France

Claranet provides network, hosting and managed application services in most European contries and Brazil.

Responsibilities:

Design the next automated unified “Cloud Provider” platform
Engineering and level 3 support

VMware Senior Consultant

SII Group.

July 2016 - August 2021, Rennes & Bordeaux, France

SII Group is a digital services company with an international dimension with a wide geographic coverage with 88 locations spread over 4 continents.

Responsibilities:

Attached to the Infrastructure Experts entity, I guide our customers in the think and build operations related to cloud computing solutions. I especially contribute to the realization of Cloud Providers platforms and I am in charge of the automation for final customers-facing solutions.
Engineering and level 3 support
Automation of Cloud Provider platforms
Consulting: Working closely with sales, customers, development teams
Trainer for VMware products, Cloud Computing introdution, OpenStack user and administrator

Tech-leader private-cloud operations

OVH

November 2014 - July 2016, Rennes, France

OVH is a French cloud computing company that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. OVH owns the world’s largest data center in surface area. They are the largest hosting provider in Europe, and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.

Responsibilities:

Creation and management of operations teams for OVH cloud offers
Virtualization tech-leader role
24/7 on-duty service with planning management

SII Group.

January 2007 - November 2014, Lannion & Rennes, France

SII Group is a digital services company with an international dimension with a wide geographic coverage with 88 locations spread over 4 continents.

VMware junior consultant

January 2011 - November 2014

Think & build & support to run, of Orange Business France Cloud Computing offers.
VMware trainer for internal employees and customers.

Web qualification engineer

January 2007 - December 2010

Technical and functional validations of several products
Creation of validation platforms and test protocols

Protocol qualification engineer

One Access Networks

April 2006 - December 2006, Paris, France

Global network virtualization specialist helping operators & service providers to deploy agile, open NFV.

Responsibilities:

Network protocol validation of multi-protocols routers
Pre-sales consulting and documentation of automated platforms for validation

Project examples

Automation solutions for Cloud Provider

Think and build of multiple automation solutions for a Cloud Provider company: Design and development of complex automation solutions to provide: additional customer self-service solutions (quota management, security services…) backend systems automation (automated backup policies, observability…) Multiple kind of automation services provided to end-users through: VMware Cloud Director + extensibility VMware vRealize Automation + extensibility Many other REST API endpoints Design of a new automation stack (K8s, FaaS, Argo workflow)

December 26, 2020 Read

Storage as a Service for vCloud Director

Think/Build/Run of a Storage-as-a-service extension for VMware vCloud Director: Backend: vCD API extension: Multi-threaded Python service for automation orchestration Frontend: vCD UI extension: Angular-based UI published to tenants for self-service storage management Other technical concepts: Continuous-Integration pipeplines based on Gitlab CI, Swagger documentation of the REST API. Some vRO based automation for network provisioning

December 25, 2020 Read

Hybridation of vRealize Automation

Hybridation of VMware vRealize Automation with a new public cloud provider: Integration of a non-natively supported public cloud provider within vRA UI vRealize Orchestrator Dynamic Types, API integration, OpenStack Heat helpers.