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stracKzdev

José PINTO aka stracKzdev

Senior Software Engineer & DevOps

Montpellier, France

About

As a developer who has been working in a large digital services company in France, I am now venturing into freelancing. While collaborating with my current teammates on various projects, I am constantly seeking new technological challenges to broaden and deepen my professional skills. If you are looking to develop ambitious projects that push the boundaries of technology even further, I am the missing piece for your project. Let's blend your needs with my skills to create a project together that reflects and enhances your business. With my diligence and expertise, I will strive to ensure great success for your future endeavors.

Experience

  1. Smile

    Senior Software Engineer & DevOps

    – Present

    Montpellier, France

    • IT services company: client projects, internal DevOps tooling and cross-functional missions.

    Missions & roles

    1. NaTran (GRTgaz)

      Senior Software Engineer

      – Present
      Client project

      • Development and operation of the commercial information system of NaTran (GRTgaz), covering capacity sales and operations.
      • Full-stack feature development, from front end to back end.
      • Analysis, design and implementation of technical solutions tailored to business needs.
      • Development within an event-driven microservices architecture.
      • Production monitoring to guarantee availability and performance (alerting, AWS CloudWatch).
      • Upholding the client SLA and the high availability of critical applications.
      • Releasing and deploying several applications at NaTran.
      • Application maintenance, including front-end and back-end version upgrades.
      • Operation and maintenance of AWS services.
      • Test strategies: unit, integration, end-to-end and contract tests (JUnit, Jest, Cucumber, Cypress).
      • Maintenance and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines.
      • Technical documentation: version changes, architecture diagrams, technical changes.
      • Agentic AI workflow with Claude Code: workflow design, agents, skills and custom commands to speed up development and maintenance.
      • Spring Boot
      • Angular
      • JUnit
      • Kafka
      • AWS
      • Docker
      • Claude Code
      • Jest
      • ECS
      • Python
      • Cucumber
      • MongoDB
      • S3
      • Bash
      • Cypress
      • Lambda
      • DynamoDB
      • CloudWatch
      • Terraform
      • CloudTrail
      • CloudFront
      • Route 53
      • GitLab CI
      • IAM
      • Cognito
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      • Claude Code
      • Jest
      • ECS
      • Python
      • Cucumber
      • MongoDB
      • S3
      • Bash
      • Cypress
      • Lambda
      • DynamoDB
      • CloudWatch
      • Terraform
      • CloudTrail
      • CloudFront
      • Route 53
      • GitLab CI
      • IAM
      • Cognito
    2. Senior Software Engineer · Cross-functional missions

      – Present

      • Management: mentoring and coaching team members, career follow-up, feedback and HR management.
      • Lead developer: technical lead on internal projects and spreading development best practices.
      • AI & Innovation: AI ambassador, assessing AI uses and technologies across the company.
      • AI benchmarks: tests, benchmarks and lessons learned, with strategic and operational recommendations.
      • AI tooling: Antigravity and Claude Code on client and internal projects; spec-driven / AI-driven methods such as BMAD and GSD.
      • Pre-sales: needs analysis, solution design and technical proposals; estimates, feasibility and architecture choices.
      • Technical interviews: assessing Java / Angular / DevOps skills against project needs.
      • Java
      • Angular
      • Claude Code
      • Antigravity
      • BMAD
      • GSD
    3. DevOps Engineer · Internal DevOps missions

      – Present

      • Improving the company's internal tools and workflow.
      • Generic CI/CD pipelines that plug easily into Smile's cross-functional projects.
      • Standardised internal Helm charts to simplify deploying common project types.
      • Overall development workflow optimisation for efficiency, reuse and consistent technical practices.
      • Docker
      • Kubernetes
      • Helm
      • Rancher
      • Harbor
      • GitLab CI
    4. Veolia

      Mid-level Software Engineer


      Client project

      • Design and optimisation of a tile-based interactive map system.
      • Caching layer on top of NAS storage to improve performance.
      • Spring Boot
      • PostgreSQL
      • Redis
    5. CEA

      Mid-level Software Engineer

      –
      Client project

      • Building the digital workplace for the organisation's staff.
      • Modular, versatile web interface designed to host many business features.
      • Backend services in a scalable, event-driven microservices architecture.
      • Advanced search engine (Elasticsearch) for faster, more relevant data access.
      • Monitoring and deployment on a Kubernetes cloud with full observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).
      • Angular
      • Kafka
      • Prometheus
      • Quarkus
      • PostgreSQL
      • Kubernetes
      • Grafana
      • Loki
      • Rancher
      • Elasticsearch
      • Harbor
      • GitLab CI
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      • Grafana
      • Loki
      • Rancher
      • Elasticsearch
      • Harbor
      • GitLab CI
    6. Effia

      Mid-level Software Engineer

      –
      Client project

      • Information system for automated car park entry and exit using licence plate recognition.
      • Reactive, event-driven microservices architecture for real-time entry/exit processing.
      • Supervision web interface giving a central, real-time view of the system.
      • Scalable, observable and resilient infrastructure (monitoring, logs, metrics).
      • Industrialised deployments through CI/CD.
      • Kubernetes cluster administration (deployment, scaling, security).
      • Spring Boot
      • Angular
      • Kafka
      • Prometheus
      • PostgreSQL
      • Kubernetes
      • Grafana
      • Loki
      • Rancher
      • Harbor
      • GitLab CI
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      • Grafana
      • Loki
      • Rancher
      • Harbor
      • GitLab CI
  2. PlugIMMO

    Software Engineer

    • Automated web data collection solution.
    • Web scraping tool to extract and structure data from complex web sources.
    • Robust, scalable data-processing architecture, built to be reliable and maintainable.
    • Containerised application for portable, reproducible runtime environments.
    • Technical mentoring of a team of interns on architecture choices and development best practices.
    • Close collaboration with the CTO to align technical decisions with business goals.
    • Docker
    • Linux
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js / NestJS / Express.js
    • Puppeteer
    • GitHub Actions
  3. stracKzdev

    Senior Software Engineer / DevOps (Freelance)

    – Present

    Remote

    • Digital & application projects: design, development and infrastructure management.
    • Analysis, design and implementation of technical solutions tailored to each client's needs.
    • Full-stack development, from backend logic to interactive user interfaces.
    • Full lifecycle management of several game servers.
    • Coordinating collaborative development and code integration through GitHub.
    • DevOps & Cloud: containerisation and orchestration of multi-environment ecosystems with Docker and Kubernetes.
    • Infrastructure as Code: automated provisioning and server configuration with Ansible.
    • Operations: administration, hardening and maintenance of integration and production servers (Windows Server 2016/19, Debian/Ubuntu).
    • CI/CD: design and continuous improvement of pipelines with GitLab CI, Jenkins and GitHub.
    • Observability: Prometheus and Grafana stack for real-time monitoring, performance tracking and proactive alerting.
    • Documentation: architecture diagrams, runbooks and product documentation kept up to date.
    • Spring Boot
    • Angular
    • Kafka
    • AWS
    • Docker
    • Prometheus
    • PostgreSQL
    • Kubernetes
    • Debian
    • Grafana
    • MongoDB
    • Ubuntu
    • Windows Server
    • C#
    • Lua
    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • HashiCorp Vault
    • GitLab CI
    • Jenkins
    • GitHub
    • Bitbucket
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    • PostgreSQL
    • Kubernetes
    • Debian
    • Grafana
    • MongoDB
    • Ubuntu
    • Windows Server
    • C#
    • Lua
    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • HashiCorp Vault
    • GitLab CI
    • Jenkins
    • GitHub
    • Bitbucket

Diplomas

  1. –

    Master's degree

    Montpellier YNOV Campus

    Expert en développement logiciel

    • Distinction: Ambassador of Excellence (Computer Science track)
    • Specialization: Web development
    • M2 overall grade: Very good with the jury's congratulations (18.71), top of the class
    • M1 overall grade: Very good (17.67), top of the class
  2. –

    Bachelor's degree

    EPSI - L'école d'ingénierie informatique

    Concepteur développeur d'applications

    • Specialization: DevOps
    • Overall grade: Very good

Training

Anthropic

  • Deploying Claude Enterprise with confidence: The five decisions that shape your rollout
  • Model Context Protocol: Advanced topics

Udemy

  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate In progress
  • HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate 2023
  • Ansible Advanced
  • Linux for Cloud & DevOps Engineers
  • Software Architecture & System Design Practical Case Studies
  • Terraform for the Absolute Beginners with Labs
  • GitLab CI: Pipelines, CI/CD and DevOps for Beginners
  • LPI Linux Essentials (010-160) Complete Course and Exams
  • DevOps, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) for Beginners

Skills

Languages

  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Bash
  • C#
  • Lua

Backend

  • Spring Boot
  • Quarkus
  • Node.js / NestJS / Express.js

Frontend

  • Angular

Testing

  • JUnit
  • Jest
  • Cucumber
  • Cypress
  • Puppeteer

Data & Messaging

  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch

Cloud AWS

  • AWS
  • ECS
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • IAM
  • Cognito

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Rancher
  • Harbor
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket

Systems

  • Linux
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows Server

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki

AI & agentic tools

  • Claude Code
  • MCP
  • Antigravity
  • BMAD
  • GSD

Let's talk

Have an ambitious project in mind? Let's blend your needs with my skills. Reach out on LinkedIn.

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