Loic Tosser is a lead DevOps engineer with extensive experience in development, QA, and operations. He has strong skills in programming languages like Go, C, and Python. As a CTO, he focuses on identifying opportunities and risks, managing R&D, and monitoring trends. He implemented numerous CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment tools to increase quality and agility.

1. Loic Tosser
Lead DevOps
"Release faster and automate more"
Summary
Lead Engineer, between Development, Q&A and Operations:
Strong Unix/Linux system administration skills, exceptional troubleshooting aptitude. A Bachelor Degree in
Computer Science brought development and scripting skills into the picture. Mastery in CI/CD.
Strong skills in Q&A: unit testing, integration tests, system tests.
Years of Site Reliability Engineering experience, strong knowledge in embedded system, Big Data, metrics/KPI
and telecommunications.
Top Technologies:
Programming languages: Go, C, Python, shell scripting
DataStores: ElasticSearch, OrientDB, Redis
OS/Virtualization/Containers: FreeBSD, Fedora, CentOS, Archlinux, Ubuntu, Xen, Docker, Jails
CI/CD: Jenkins, Rundeck, Ansible, Puppet
Monitoring/Metrics/KPIs: Zabbix, TICK stack, ELK stack, Grafana, Monit/MMonit
Logs: Logentries, ELK stack, Loggly
Experience
2015–Present CTO, Aswat Telecom and Media, Dubai.
As CTO, I have multiple tasks
Identify opportunities and risks for the business
Manage research and development
Maintain current information about technology standards and compliance regulations
Monitor technology and social trends that could impact the company
But my biggest target, as a CTO, is to launch our new contact center software. To increase the quality
and the agility of the project, I’m also the DevOps on this project. I’ve put in place multiple tools, like:
Team Management: Git, GitHub, Kanban Board
Test frameworks: Mocha, Protractor, Goblin
CI/CD: Jenkins, Poudriere, Rundeck
Deployment: Phoenix VMs (FreeBSD on Xen, with integration of Cloud-init and Xen Orchestra),
Ender(Tailor-made solution, based on the pull concept, like Puppet, but with the Ansible syntax)
Metrics/Monitoring: TICK Stack, Grafana
On top of this, I’ve managed a side project: a customer database with 2.5 millions of entrances, including
KPI/metrics system, statistics, customer profiling, SSO and APIs.
Springs 1, Street 6, Villa 52 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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2. 2015 DevOps, Aswat Telecom and Media, Dubai.
I did DevOps/SysAdmin job, design the architecture for the new project, and manage the old project. I
bring some tools, to have a better quality
DevOps Tasks:
Programming: Golang, Python, PHP
Monitoring: Zabbix, Monit, Datadog
Deployment: Ansible, Docker
OS: RancherOS, Fedora 22, FreeBSD
Databases: Redis, OrientDB, MySQL
Softwares: Yaws, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, Git, Jenkins
Managing Tools: GitHub, Trello (Kanban Board), GitFlow
2014-2015 CTO, My Sign, Dubai.
I did DevOps/SysAdmin job, and design the architecture for the project. My other fonctions are to plan
costs, hiring, managing the project and giving some advices to the founders DevOps Tasks
Programming Languages: Python, Golang, Erlang
Monitoring: Zabbix,Monit,Observium, Logstash, Kibana
Deployment: Ansible
OS and Virtualization: FreeBSD, Jails
Databases: Redis, Mnesia, Neo4J, MariaDB
Softwares: Yaws, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, Git, Poudriere, Jenkins, MongooseIM
Managing Tools: Redmine, GitHub, Trello, GitFlow
Startup Knowledges: Growth Hacking, Statistics/Metrics, Fundraising
2013-2014 SysAdmin, Findspire, Nancy, France.
I Developed a complete infrastructure for a startup, including monitoring, deploy-
ment,virtualization,databases and much more
DevOps Tasks:
Programming Languages: Python, Golang, Erlang
Monitoring: Zabbix,Supervisor, Logstash, Kibana
Deployment: Ansible
Virtualization: LXC,Docker,Jails
Databases: Redis,ElasticSearch,Couchdb,Riak and RiakCS,ArangoDB
Others : Yaws, Lighttpd, Nginx, Varnish, Gunicorn, ApacheDS, OpenVSwitch, RabbitMQ
2012-2013 Team Leader - Server Side application, BoBee, Nancy, France.
Bo-Bee is a home automation and respectful of nature solution. We hope control as many components
as possible with our solution, such as household appliances, lighting, water and heating. Bo-Bee, wanting
to be also a consulting solution, visualizes in real time or delayed how the house uses its energies, and this
through various statistics. Work : Team Leader on the Home/Dedicated Server, which include material
(Raspberry Pi), sysadmin (FreeBSD ARM), python software (django, tastypie)
2011-2012 ERP Developer, Be Metrics, Nancy, France.
Developed a new ERP for the company
Detailed achievements:
Learned how to manage a company
Learned how to use OpenERP
Learned how to develop an OpenERP module
2010-2011 Stand-in Tutor, Université de Metz, Metz, France.
Teacher in the Telecommunication Bachelors degree
Detailed achievements:
Classes about web security
Classes about web development
Classes about web architecture
Skills
System Administration
FreeBSD Jails
Fedora Debian
Springs 1, Street 6, Villa 52 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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3. CentOS Docker
Ansible Puppet
Jenkins Rundeck
DataBases
MySQL PostgreSQL
CouchDB ElasticSearch
OrientDB Redis
InfluxDB Google DataStore
Data Science
R Python
TSDB GraphDB
Data Mining Data Analysis
Big Data Customer Database
Programming languages
Go Python
R C
Virtualization
Xen Unikernel
Education
2012–2013 Master1 Network and security, Bonch-Bruevich University Of Telecommunication, Saint-
Petersburg, Russian Federation.
2009–2012 Bachelor - Computer Science, EPITECH - European Institute of Technology, Nancy, France.
Languages
French Mothertongue
English Full professional proficiency
German Limited working proficiency
Russian Limited working proficiency
Communication Skills
2016 Gophercon Dubai - Go for the web
2014 RMLL - Why Debian When FreeBSD?
Interests
- FreeBSD - Chess
- MMA - Swimming
- Poweriser
Springs 1, Street 6, Villa 52 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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