Loïck Le Bail

Missions & Achievements

• Provided consulting services in the hospitality industry, focusing on maintaining operational systems, improving existing solutions, and advising on strategic improvements.
• Collaborated with clients to deliver end-to-end services, including hands-on development, audits, and documentation.
• Balanced technical problem-solving with strategic client engagement, fostering close client relationships and driving results.
• Improved client website SEO and performance, leading to a 30% increase in customer engagement.
• Delivered full-stack solutions, audits, and documentation.

Personal Projects

• Leveraged self-directed learning to explore generative AI and cloud technologies, developing personal projects using GCP services (Vertex AI, Firebase, Firestore, Cloud Run) and AWS (Skillbuilder courses and readiness training).
• Initiated various projects, including one nearing MVP stage, integrating technologies like Java, Python, React, Flask, Spring, and Material UI to broaden technical expertise across development, infrastructure, and cloud environments.

Community Engagement

• Engaged in "workaway" volunteering projects, combining technical contributions with community engagemen
• Improved resort website performance and SEO, boosting winter-season customer activity by 30%.
• Built a data visualization solution for a goat farm to extract auction data for better insights.
• Engaged in various technical and volunteer projects combining technical contributions with community engagement.

Cross Mission Responsibilities

• Performed cross-functional roles, including Solution Architect, Tech Lead, Team Lead, and Database Administrator, delivering secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions.
• Developed and executed comprehensive technical strategies, ensuring alignment with both business objectives and regulatory requirements across projects.
• Architected robust data solutions, including APIs and data pipelines, to standardize and optimize data management and integration at scale.
• Led multi-disciplinary teams on end-to-end project lifecycles, from roadmap creation and technical design to deployment across development and production environments.
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance (QA) teams to establish thorough performance and quality analysis strategies, ensuring reliable, high-quality deliverables.
• Facilitated knowledge transfer and mentorship to empower teams and address future technical challenges effectively.
• Participated in client-facing architecture committees and stakeholder meetings to align technical decisions with business priorities and client objectives.
• Ensured adherence to international security standards, regional regulations, and compliance requirements, enabling seamless global operations.

Luxury Client

• Acted as a Solution Architect, Tech Lead, Team Lead, and Technical Project Manager, driving development, deployment, and technical strategy.
• Transitioned into an acting manager role to maintain team cohesion and ensure project continuity after managerial changes.
• Managed end-to-end project lifecycles, including roadmap building, technical demonstrations, and multi-environment deployments (Dev to Prod).
• Conducted comprehensive technical needs analysis, resolving cross-functional dependencies and implementing solutions to ensure seamless project delivery.
• Architected and delivered a search API for a global C360 Data Lake, integrating customer records and purchase history from multiple continents with role-based access control.
• Collaborated on designing Performance and Quality Analysis (QA) test plans for the solution.
• Participated in regular client-facing solution architecture committees and meetings as one of the platform's solution architects.
• Led a team of 5 developers, 2 testers, and 1 business analyst.
• Ensured the solution's compliance with diverse regional regulations, delivering secure and seamless access to critical data for global stakeholders.

Internal Work

• Collaborated on an internal Security project to develop a new project around data security, contributing expertise in Big Data solutions.
• Designed a solution for a data streaming project in response to a request for proposal (RFP), ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Assisted in multiple projects by optimizing container orchestration configurations within a DevOps context and facilitating knowledge transfer to address future team needs.

Telecom Client

• Supported the telecom client's on-demand TV platform by maintaining database performance, reliability, and operational readiness in a high-availability production environment.
• Acted as a Database Administrator, maintaining the operational condition of the solution.
• Resolved critical database deadlocks for an on-demand TV platform, enhancing database performance and ensuring service reliability.
• Authored root cause analysis (RCA) documentation to help the client identify and address recurring issues.

Cross Mission Responsibilities

• Spearheaded operations for secure and scalable Big Data platforms, delivering enterprise-grade solutions that served clients across industries including banking, retail, and public utilities.
• Delivered tailored solutions, enhancing scalability, security, and performance while meeting strict documentation standards.
• Managed clusters with up to terabytes of RAM, optimizing resource allocation for high-demand services and jobs, ensuring seamless performance under heavy workloads.
• Oversaw operations for more than 15 Cloudera clusters, ensuring consistent performance, reliability, and adherence to industry best practices.
• Defined operational standards for Big Data environments, mentoring L1 and L2 support teams to ensure system resilience and scaled-up support capabilities.

Banking Group Client

• Acted as a consultant and principal Big Data environments Administrator.
• Strengthened cluster-level security through robust encryption, authorization policies, and secure service endpoints, while managing incidents under stringent validation and documentation standards.

Internal Work

• Trained L1 and L2 support teams, creating procedures to address undocumented issues and empowering team members to handle higher-level tasks.
• Provided technical consultation for pre-sales business teams, designing tailored solutions and drafting technical responses to client RFPs, contributing to project acquisition success.
• Administered, secured, and documented internal Big Data clusters training environments.
• Designed and enforced comprehensive security protocols for data and Big Data environments, safeguarding critical assets from unauthorized access.
• Acted as a tech lead and principal Big Data administration referent for the data team.
• Wrote technical articles for the company blog.

Social Client

• Customized training on Big Data environment usage and administration in Azure, including extended sessions on Ansible and Solr tailored to the client’s specific needs.

Manufacturing & Retail Client

• Led L3 operations for Cloudera clusters and cloud resources (AWS VMs, RDS databases), maintaining availability through ITIL-driven processes, while designing security-oriented Big Data procedures tailored to client needs.

Banking Client

• External Senior Solution Consultant for a migration project from Hortonworks clusters to CDP on behalf of Cloudera.

Municipal Client

• Designed and deployed an on-premise Big Data environment connected to Big Query in GCP using Nifi, while training the client for long-term self-administration.

Internal R&D

• Delivered fully automated Big Data deployment solutions for multi-cloud environments, demonstrating ownership and results that exceeded intern-level expectations.
• Accelerated deployment pipelines and improved scalability by automating Hadoop cluster deployment across multi-cloud environments.
• Conducted IO benchmarking across multi-cloud environments, identifying and mitigating performance bottlenecks.
• Optimized multi-cloud deployments for efficiency and scalability through high-performance solutions built with Ansible, Terraform, Cloudera, and HDFS.
• Evaluated Citus Data and PGPool as scalable solutions for PostgreSQL databases, enhancing system performance for large-scale environments.
• Designed, implemented, and automated a high-availability architecture for PostgreSQL, improving reliability and minimizing downtime.
• Collaborated with senior engineers to document findings and recommend best practices for database architecture.