Reynald Borer

Experience

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  Cardis Network, Borer & Robyr

  Mar 2002 - Aug 2007

  Co-founder & CEO

  I founded in March 2002, with 3 student friends, a company active in the sales of computer equipment, consulting, and creation of Internet sites. In this context, I manage the account of several customers, individuals or companies, from the definition of the need to the installation and maintenance on-site, through the negotiation with the suppliers, the order, and the reception of the material.

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  EPFL - Center for Research and Support of Training and its Technologies

  Jan 2004 - Sept 2004

  System Administrator - Trainee

  During my studies I participate in the maintenance and management of the servers and the 3 computer rooms of the CRAFT (Centre de Recherche et d'Appui pour la Formation et ses Technologies) of the EPFL. I am also doing an internship at CRAFT during which I participate in the maintenance of the computer park as well as in the development of different tools and platforms made available to students and graduates.Web site of the institute is https://craft.epfl.ch/

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  ELCA Informatique SA / ELCA Informatik AG

  Feb 2008 - Jan 2012

  Software architect in charge of the implementation of a customized ticketing version of SecuTix 360° for a specific client.Work hand-in-hand with the client in order to host the software on his own architecture. Defines the hardware requirements and hosting procedures. Successfully deliver them the software. Involved in the design, the development and the deployment of the complete ticketing system SecuTix 360°.Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Maven, Tomcat, JMS.

  • Software Architect

    Jun 2010 - Jan 2012

  • Software Engineer

    Feb 2008 - Jun 2010
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  SecuTix SA

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2013

  Software Architect

  Following a company reorganization, affiliated to the team responsible of the architecture, development infrastructure and production tools. Works daily to improve collaboration between the development and operations teams. Involves developers in production issues as well as operators in the development phases.In charge of the technical development of the software and the quality of its source code.Design and implementation of a release management system based on Agile development processes, continuous integration infrastructure (Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar) andcontinuous deployment tools (Rundeck).Elaboration of a configuration and deployment strategy of the application in production.Support to customers hosting the application on their own infrastructure, participation in the level 3 technical support for production issues. Show less

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  Finity AI

  Aug 2013 - Nov 2021

  Management• Lead the technical team (up to 6 people)• Integrate the different teams following a merger• Define the business processes related to the development of the services• Carry out a GDPR compliance assessment• Define and manages the bug-bounty program for the Paper.li serviceDevelopment & Architecture• Transform business requirements into specifications, technical developments and test cases• Define the overall architecture, participate in the development of the backend, and perform code reviews• Participate in level 3 support• Integrate external systems (payment, communication, etc.)Operations• Manage the capacity of the fleet (141 servers); perform periodic reviews to optimize costs• Manage and automate operational transitions and participate in on-call service• Define and write Postmortems after incidents• Process reports received as part of the bug-bounty program Show less • Maintain and monitor the Paper.li service platform• Renew the dedicated infrastructure and perform the migration between Cloud providers• Implement an on-call service with rotation and automatic escalation of alerts• Analyze the operational impact of new features and manage their deployment• Take over the technical team following the departure of the Lead Developer• Improve the configuration and deployment management tool• Implement a continuous integration pipeline• Optimize the platform to support the growing number of users and content• Design an article indexing system offering new search possibilities to present to users• Maintain dependencies and operational components Show less

  • CTO

    May 2016 - Nov 2021

  • DevOps Engineer

    Aug 2013 - May 2016
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  DemandScience

  Nov 2021 - Mar 2023

  Senior Director, Content Platform Engineering
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  Romande Energie

  Apr 2023 - now

  Product Engineer