Jean-Sébastien Jeannotte

Senior Software Engineer

San Jose, California, United States23 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in automation and software engineering.
Expert in AWS and distributed systems.
Proven track record in DevOps and system orchestration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Automation Engineer with extensive experience in cloud and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsAutomationSystem MonitoringCloud ComputingSystem AdministrationSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

EC2CassandraElastic SearchDynomiteKafkaZookeeperAutomated alertingVisibility toolsBest practicesSimian ArmyCustom software designDatabase developmentWeb designNetworkingComputer security

About

Seasoned (automation|system|software) engineer with 20 years of experience building distributed systems, automating management of physical, virtual and cloud based systems, as well as designing and developing software solutions and tools. Self-starter with deep knowledge of Amazon Web Services (S3, CloudFront, EC2, CloudWatch, Route53, DynamoDB, etc.) and Python/Bash shell scripting. Very passionate about automation, server orchestration tools and solving production issues. Specialties: Distributed systems, Python, Automation, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Linux System Administration, Bash Scripting, Server Orchestration and Monitoring, Databases (SQL/NoSQL), Software Engineering.

Experience

23 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs

Current Experience

Netflix

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2014 – Aug 2022 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Engineer Software solutions to automate the management/administration needs for several thousands EC2 instances running Cassandra, Elastic Search, Dynomite, Kafka or Zookeeper. At Netflix, we are going beyond DevOps: we build systems that automate all the required instances maintenances and upgrades. These systems also receive our alerts, and when triggered, perform a state determination of the ecosystem, map it to one or many root causes, and automatically orchestrate and launch resolution workflows.

EC2CassandraElastic SearchDynomiteKafkaZookeeper+2

Senior Systems Engineer

May 2013 – Mar 2014 · 10 mos

Make sure that when you press Play, it works. Build automated alerting and visibility tools for Netflix Engineering teams. Be the call leader for a service with millions of customers. Work with individual service teams to adopt best practices for improving availability. Extend the Simian Army (http://techblog.netflix.coml2011107/netflix-simian-army.html). Invent new best practices within Netflix environment.

Automated alertingVisibility toolsBest practicesSimian ArmyAutomationSystem Monitoring

Electronic arts

Site Operations Engineer

Jun 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

Make sure the game servers are reliable and meet the SLA while improving their performance. Integrate DevOps tools for server orchestration and command dispatching. Develop and integrate automation scripts to help the server/client development teams. Improve the monitoring and reduce the number of false alarms. Maintain and improve the build systems and scripts (TeamCity/Jenkins).

Game server reliabilityDevOps toolsAutomation scriptsMonitoringDevOpsSystem Monitoring

Collège de bois-de-boulogne

Teacher

Feb 2010 – May 2010 · 3 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

Prepared and Teached a .NET Software Developpment course

.NETSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Institut teccart inc.

Teacher

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 · 3 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

Prepared and teached Oracle PL/SQL, Computer Security and Web Design courses

Oracle PL/SQLComputer SecurityWeb DesignSoftware Engineering

Above security

Lead Software Developer

Mar 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Montreal, Canada Area

PHP / PostgreSQL lead developer on the IDS (intrusion detection system) administration console.

PHPPostgreSQLSoftware Engineering

Sol informatique inc.

Entrepreneur

Jun 2002 – May 2013 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

Cloud computing operations and services, system administration (sysadmin), custom software design, database development and administration (DBA), web design, web application, networking, computer security, IT training, server virtualization (VMware).
Clients: Aéroports de Montréal - ADM (Montreal Airport), Hydro-Québec, Odd1, Agenco, Aptitude

Cloud computingSystem administrationCustom software designDatabase developmentWeb designNetworking+5