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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "About me" |
| 3 | +date: 2024-06-23 |
| 4 | +type: ["page"] |
| 5 | +author: |
| 6 | + name: Patrik Cyvoct |
| 7 | +tags: |
| 8 | +aliases: |
| 9 | + - "about-me" |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +## Past |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +Welcome, I'm **Patrik** (or sometimes **[Sh4d1](https://github.com/Sh4d1)**), and living in Paris! |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +I'm a long time Linux user (I use arch btw), that loves to build, and operates systems, especially distributed ones. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +I was born in Stockholm in 1994, grew up in the french alps, |
| 21 | +graduated from _[Ensimag](https://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/)_ in early 2018, where among others things, I wrote a compiler in Java, a processor in VHDL, and a kernel in C. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +I'm native in french, and fluent in english, while trying to keep my swedish up to the level. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +### Scaleway |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +#### Kubernetes |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +I then moved to Paris and joined _[Scaleway](https://scaleway.com)_ as a DevOps engineer on |
| 30 | +_[Kapsule](https://www.scaleway.com/en/kubernetes-kapsule/)_, the managed Kubernetes solution in early 2019. |
| 31 | +The next 2.5 years were spent building from the ground up a Kubernetes distribution. |
| 32 | +I even made a *[webinar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTV_whRZG58)* explaining how it all works under the hood (though a lot have changed since, for the best). |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +It taught me a lot about building systems, Kubernetes, containers, automation, configuration management, Golang, good practices, ... |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +Let's say I learned a lot these first years, and I loved it! |
| 37 | +It also started an unavoidable love/hate relationship with Kubernetes. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +#### S3 |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +The opportunity to join the object storage's Site Reliability Engineer team presented itself in fall 2021, which I took. |
| 42 | +That brought me to spend the next 2.5 years building (in C) and running a globally distributed key/value database, _[Hive](https://papers.s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/hive.pdf)_, |
| 43 | +meant to store the metadata of all S3 object, while contribuing to _[libfloat](https://git.sr.ht/~ne02ptzero/libfloat)_, |
| 44 | +a C raft implementation, by my colleague and friend **[Louis](https://ne02ptzero.me/)**. |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +On top of that, I learned a lot about bare metal environment (PXE, networking, storage, ...) with deployments of thousands of servers, across multiple regions, |
| 47 | +while also taking ownership and scaling the monitoring stack (elasticsearch, vector, prometheus/victoriametrics, grafana). |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +## Present |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +### amo |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +I left Scaleway in march 2024, to join a new adventure as SRE at **[amo](https://amo.co/about)**. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +The tables have turned, as I'm now on the other side of the spectrum, using a cloud provider, instead of building for one. |
| 57 | +There are a lot of new things to learn, and to discover! To be continued... |
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