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DevOps Engineer

William SMITH

DevOps with 2 years of hands-on experience building internal CI/CD tooling through a work-study program. Strong engineering foundation in TypeScript and infrastructure, seeking a first permanent DevOps / Platform Engineer position.

Years of experience
3
Positions
3
Projects
13
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Experience

  1. DevOps · Full-time

    Oct 2026 - present

    DATASOLUTION — Lille, France · Web digital agency, expert in e-commerce.

    • Owned the GitLab CI/CD templates shared by internal tooling and client projects: one standard pipeline for build, test and deployment.
    • Built an internal automation tool orchestrating GitLab, JFrog Artifactory and Octopus Deploy, removing recurring manual operations for the team.
    • Ran production releases and deployment infrastructure for client platforms, improving release reliability and traceability.
  2. DevOps Junior · Apprenticeship

    Sep 2024 — Sep 2026

    DataSolution — Lille, France · Web digital agency, expert in e-commerce.

    • Designed and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines, standardizing build and deployment workflows for internal tooling and client projects.
    • Built an internal tool to trigger automated actions across the team's DevOps toolchain, cutting down repetitive manual operations.
    • Configured and managed deployment infrastructure across GitLab, JFrog Artifactory and Octopus Deploy, ensuring reliable releases in production.
  3. Test Automation Consultant · Apprenticeship

    Sep 2023 — Sep 2024

    B/Acceptance — Paris, France · Software testing and QA consulting firm.

    • Designed and maintained robust, maintainable automated test scripts using Selenium, Playwright and Ranorex.
    • Reviewed and validated test code to ensure the reliability and quality of automated test suites.
    • Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines within an Agile / Scrum framework.

Projects

Portfolio · Web App

2025 - 2026

This site, its API, its admin and the infrastructure that runs them.

A bilingual portfolio built as a small Prod platform: a Next.js site served from one API call, a NestJS API on PostgreSQL, a Vue admin that manages every piece of content, and a GitOps deployment on a self-hosted k3s cluster.

Next.jsTailwind CSSTypeScriptNestJSPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsArgoCDVault

Education

  1. MSc, Information Systems Architecture

    2024 — 2026

    EPITECH — Lille, France

  2. Bachelor's, Application Design & Development

    2021 — 2024

    EPSI — Paris, France

Skills

Click a skill to see the projects that use it.
Aware
Theory and vocabulary. I follow the topic in a meeting.
Novice
Simple tasks, guided. Side projects and training ground.
Proficient
Autonomous day to day on standard production work.
Advanced
Complex cases, design decisions, code review for the team.
Expert
Reference point: I set the standards, train and unblock others.

CI/CD & Scripting

Containers & IaC

Cloud & Hosting

Artifact & Secrets

Backend

Frontend

Methodologies

Languages

  • FrenchNative
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  • EnglishFluent
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Contact

A question, an opportunity, or just a hello — write to me here and I usually reply within two working days.