Kisoku.NET | Learning How to Breathe

Mathieu Sauve-Frankel

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https://kisoku.net

msf@kisoku.net

Summary

I am an automation engineer with over 20 years of experience. Self-motivated and autonomous, I bring a broad mix of systems, networking and security experience to bear in my day to day activities. I am constantly looking to challenge and improve myself.

Skills

TCP/IP, Unix/Linux, Kubernetes, Configuration Management, Terraform, CI/CD, git, IPsec, Firewalls, Oauth 2.0, Observability, AWS, GCP, Bare Metal, Ruby, Python, Perl

Work History

Woven by Toyota, Staff Infrastructure Engineer

2021 - Present

  • Lead Engineer for the Agora Platform Infrastructure team
  • Technical lead for cross-disciplinary team of 14 engineers in a larger team of 70+ engineers
  • Led recruitment efforts, selecting resumes, grading take home challenges, conducting interviews and member of the recommending committee
  • Architected Multi-Region, multi-cluster Kubernetes cluster using AWS EKS in IPv6 Mode
  • Collaborated with Build and Test engineers to support a Bazel based monorepo build system for 200+ application engineers
  • Implemented CI/CD solutions for Kubernetes (FluxCD, Prow)
  • Collaborated with the CI/CD team to build custom GitHub event handler software for a tailored CI/CD solution
  • Automated Terraform CI/CD (Terragrunt, GitHub Actions)
  • Enhanced GitHub Actions security (Oauth 2.0, GitHub Applications)
  • Implemented Istio service mesh (multi-cluster, Solo.io Gloo Mesh)
  • Collaborated with security architects on platform threat model
  • Collaborated with Woven City service teams to define requirements

Fastly Japan KK, Principal Site Reliability Engineer

2015 - 2021

  • Technical lead on infrastructure automation for Fastly’s CDN product
  • Led the multi-year effort to redesign and rebuild Fastly’s production Chef codebase
  • Trained and mentored dozens of engineers
  • Developed tooling for automated Chef development workflows (developer tools, CI)
  • Built cloud infrastructure for Chef and CI (Terraform, GCP, AWS)
  • Designed a replacement for chef-vault using Hashicorp Vault as backend
  • Worked as part of the SRE team responsible for Fastly's Data Plane
  • Participated in on-call rotations, responding to production and security incidents
  • Collaborated with service teams responsible for Fastly's Control Plane

Qualcomm Japan, Staff Engineer, Office of the Chief Scientist

2010 - 2015

  • Worked as part of the Qualcomm Open Source Portal team, an engineering group responsible for Open Source Evangelism, Education and License Compliance
  • Led QOSP's operations team
  • Designed and implementing QOSP's automation and release infrastructure
  • Developed a test harness for QOSP's flagship product
  • Collaborated with QA engineers to implement automated testing
  • Developed a distributed source code mirror system for QOSP's flagship product
  • Developed tools to automate operational tasks
  • Researched and evaluated open source technologies for QOSP's products
  • Liaised with internal and external vendors
  • Managed QOSP's hardware budget
  • Managed QOSP's Continuous Integration infrastructure
  • Managed QOSP's Chef Server infrastructure
  • Mentored QOSP's development and operations teams
  • Represented Qualcomm at Chef community events
  • Developed a docker-based package builder for QOSP's product lines

System Administrator, Newedge

2009 - 2010

  • Responsible for both Unix and Network administration duties at the largest commodities brokerage in Japan
  • Implemented networks for colocated customers, including frequent visits to the Osaka Securities Exchange data centers
  • Firewall, Switch and Router administration
  • Linux server administrator for a variety of Financial applications
  • Replaced a legacy monitoring system with Nagios
  • Implemented Chef for Linux server management

Senior System Administrator, SBI Japannext

2007 - 2009

  • Collaborated with hardware vendors to draft specification for 400 server data center
  • Designed the network architecture for new data center
  • Automated bare-metal deployment of stock exchange using Puppet, Cobbler and RHEL
  • Mentored junior engineers on automation technologies and development practices
  • Implemented virtualized testing using Xen server and Cobbler
  • Wrote my own Puppet node classifier in Perl

Professional work history prior to 2007 available upon request.

Professional Associations

Co-Founder Recon Security Conference

2005 - present

One of the founders and core organizers of a profitable computer security conference held annually in Montreal. Worked on all aspects of the conference, including speaker selection, media contact and promotion, provisioning, arranging the venue, conference network infrastructure, and volunteer staff co-ordination.

OpenBSD Developer

2004-2010

I worked extensively with the porting team, acting as package maintainer for over a hundred different software packages. I have also worked heavily with OpenBSD's IPsec tool chain and am actively developing improvements to OpenBSD's IPsec support.

Education

  • A.E.P Network Administration - META2 Formation 2001
  • High School Diploma - MIND High School, Montreal 1992
  • Bilingual certificate (English/French) - MIND High School, Montreal 1992

Languages

  • English (Fluent)
  • French (Fluent)
  • Japanese (Basic)

Hobbies

  • Music (Guitar and Bass player)
  • Aikido (1st degree black belt)
  • Games (Board games and video games)