Michael Bertoni

Engineering Manager
michael.bertoni@thynkio.com | Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France | linkedin.com/in/bertonimichael

Engineering Manager with 9+ years of experience spanning QA, software development, DevOps, and Data engineering. Proven track record leading SaaS transformations, industrializing data platforms, and managing teams of 3 to 5 engineers. Combines hands-on technical depth with a strong functional and product understanding.

Key Achievements

Performance: Build time 40 min to 5 min (Eudonet), ETL delivery 2 months to 3 weeks (Energy Pool), tenant deployment 1 day to 1h (Invafresh)
Cost Savings: -30% infrastructure costs at Invafresh, estimated ROI of 240K/year at Energy Pool
Leadership: Data Mesh initiated for 3 dev teams, 15 developers migrated to GitLab, 4 juniors mentored with proven career growth

Core Competencies

Leadership & Management

  • Team Leadership: Management of 3-5 engineer teams, delivery coordination, developer experience focus
  • Change Management: On-prem to SaaS transition (Invafresh), DevOps adoption across 4 teams (Enedis, 60-person project)
  • Incident Management: Support process design, incident tracking, post-mortems, SRE practices
  • Mentoring & Influence: 4 juniors mentored (intern to full-time hire), internal talks, cross-team influence, best practices evangelism

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

  • CI/CD: Jenkins (Groovy DSLs), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Buildkite, GitOps
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Packer, CloudFormation
  • Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes in production, Docker, Podman
  • Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, GCP Monitoring
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway - FinOps, Platform Engineering

Data Engineering

  • ETL/ELT Pipelines: Python, PySpark, AWS Glue, Athena, Apache Airflow
  • Data Architecture: Data Lake / Lakehouse, Data Mesh, governance, product team enablement

Software Development

  • Backend: Java/Spring, TypeScript, Python - 3 years hands-on before transitioning to leadership
  • QA & Functional: Test strategy, functional analysis, accessibility audits (CGI, Sully Group)

Recent Professional Experience

DevOps Technical Lead
Eudonet | Lyon, Paris
12/2025 - Present
Leading the Ops team (4 engineers) within a 30+ person project rewriting a monolith into event-driven microservices (.NET, multi-tenant). Rebuilt CI from legacy VM agents to ephemeral Kubernetes runners, cutting build time from 40 min to 5 min. Halved release-to-production time (half-day to 1h). Implemented incident response process, transitioned team from Scrum to Kanban, hardened CloudNativePG with auto-provisioning for new SaaS tenants.
Data Lake Technical Lead
Energy Pool | Lyon
01/2024 - 12/2025
Led the Data Lake team (5 engineers). Reduced ETL pipeline delivery from 2 months to 3 weeks, serving 10+ business teams (30+ pipelines, 40+ tables). Initiated Data Mesh governance, enabling 3 dev teams to self-serve their bronze-to-silver data zones. Estimated ROI of 240K/year.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Invafresh | Toronto (Remote)
04/2021 - 04/2022
Built and led the Core Infra team (3 engineers + contractors). Drove on-prem to Azure SaaS transition, reduced infrastructure costs by 30%. Automated tenant deployment from 1 day to 1h across 15+ environments via Terraform. Migrated 15 developers from TFS to GitLab. Mentored a junior intern into a full-time hire.

Previous Experience

  • Operations Engineer - Horizon Blockchain Games (2022) - CI/CD renewal, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Grafana/Prometheus monitoring
  • DevOps/SRE Engineer - Schlumberger (2019-2021) - GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, SLO/SLI definition, on-call & observability, data pipelines (Airflow)
  • DevOps Engineer - Energy Pool (2019) - Benchmarked, implemented and rolled out Jenkins 2 (workshops + docs), AWS
  • DevOps Engineer - Enedis (2018) - 60-person microservices project, Kubernetes, Jenkins DSLs, Ansible, Hybrid cloud (AWS)
  • Java Developer - Sully Group (2015-2018) - Spring/Hibernate, QA tooling (Squash TM), government clients
  • QA Analyst / Assistant PM - CGI (2013-2015) - Functional analysis, test strategy, test campaign management

Education

MSc in Software Engineering
2019 - EPSI, Lyon - RNCP Level 7
Bachelor Degree in ERP
2014 - Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Languages

French Native
English Bilingual (Canada experience)
Interests: Drums & Piano (@platypus_experience), Volunteering (Artis MBC, Dema1n.org, Planning Familial), Badminton, Hockey