Experience
Qonto — AI Lab Engineer
Sept. 2025 – Present · qonto.com
Building the next generation of tools that will make financial management for entrepreneurs simpler, smoother, and smarter, using AI, in an autonomous team.
Technologies: AWS (EKS, RDS, Bedrock), Python (FastAPI), GenAI (agentic)
Qonto — Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Jan. 2022 – Sept. 2025 · Fully remote
Promoted from Staff to Senior Staff in July 2023. Solved cross-team technical and organizational problems during hypergrowth, supporting 600+ microservices and hundreds of engineers.
- Implemented Platform Engineering concepts over several years:
- Enabled continuous deployment (300 deployments/day in production)
- Increased teams' productivity and autonomy by providing self-service APIs and tooling for all production actions
- Designed and built PCI-DSS compliant cloud platform for Qonto's card processor handling all payments for 500,000+ customers
- Drove observability adoption across 600+ services (logs, metrics, traces, SLOs) to improve incident detection and quality
- Revamped Golang internal ecosystem to reduce overhead in microservices creation and maintenance
- Reduced SRE infrastructure maintenance overhead, enabling scale without proportionally increasing headcount
- Technical leadership: mentoring, architecture review, pushing new practices, cross-functional collaboration (Risk, Compliance, Internal Control)
- Applied Lean Management: Kanban, one piece flow, PDCA, continuous improvement
Technologies: AWS (EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, Kafka), Kubernetes (ArgoCD, Karpenter), Golang, Prometheus/Thanos, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, Terraform
Exoscale — Engineering Team Lead
May 2018 – Dec. 2021 · exoscale.com · Fully remote
Promoted from Senior Developer to Team Lead in May 2020.
- Built and maintained core cloud products critical for customers and internal use:
- SKS (managed Kubernetes offering, greatest European Kubernetes offering at the time of its release)
- Network Load Balancer (layer 4 TCP cloud load balancer integrating with existing products)
- Instance pools (managing groups of autoscaled machines)
- Company's new public API (completely redesigned from scratch for consistency and to enable powerful SDKs and tooling)
- Participated in architectural choices and built company's technological foundations: distributed systems, orchestration, stream processing, storage
- Improved existing products: managed private networks, hypervisor and virtualization, tooling
Technologies: Clojure, Golang, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Puppet, Terraform
Malt — System Administrator
Jan. 2018 – Apr. 2018 · malt.com · Hybrid
- Managed company's infrastructure: bare metal and cloud servers
- Improved infrastructure deployment stack for better security and reliability
Technologies: Ansible, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Consul, Grafana, Hashicorp Vault, Terraform
Zenika — System Administrator Consultant
Sept. 2015 – Jan. 2018 · zenika.com
Mostly worked for Enedis (French electricity grid company).
- Built and maintained continuous integration and deployment platform used by hundreds of developers daily
- Built common deployment layer for teams to deliver infrastructure and software safely in production
- Maintained logs and metrics observability stack
- Promoted infrastructure-as-code and observability best practices to improve service reliability
- Maintained Atlassian stack: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
Technologies: Ansible, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Grafana, Kubernetes, Python, Java
Skills
| Domain |
Details |
| Containers |
Deep expertise in Kubernetes, its ecosystem, and best practices for managing highly-scalable container workloads. |
| Infrastructure |
Expert in modern infrastructure patterns (Cloud, GitOps, IaC) and CI/CD. Able to design robust yet pragmatic infrastructures that balance technical excellence with business constraints. |
| Architecture |
Experienced in distributed architectures and microservices. Strong focus on edge cases, failure modes, and system impact. Advocate for architectures that increase teams' productivity and autonomy while minimizing cognitive load. |
| Observability |
Expert in logs, metrics, traces, incident management, root cause analysis, and SLOs to improve product quality and engineering efficiency. |
| Programming |
Proficient in Golang and Clojure, strong Python skills. Solid knowledge of development best practices and building reliable software. |
| Project management |
Years of experience with Lean concepts and continuous improvement. Skilled at organizing cross-team and cross-departmental work to achieve company goals. |
| Communication |
Regular speaker at French tech conferences. Experienced in facilitating meetings and cross-functional collaboration. |
| Languages |
French (native), English (proficient). |
Open Source
I like building new projects from scratch to explore new ideas. They can be found on my Github.
Technical Writing
Author of mcorbin.fr, a technical blog covering engineering topics.
Education
University of Lorraine — Nancy
DUT and Master's degree in Computer Science · 2010–2015
