About me
Network engineer specialising in datacentre infrastructure, I graduated in Networks and Telecommunications Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Télécom Saint-Étienne.
I gained hands-on production experience deploying BGP-EVPN VxLAN fabrics for Bouygues Telecom's 5G datacentres across France.
I'm now pursuing an MSc in Computing (Security and Reliability) at Imperial College London.
Beyond the professional side, I'm a day-one computer enthusiast, equally drawn to the history of technology as to the infrastructure itself, and I enjoy occasionally sharing what I learn along the way.
Technical skills
Networks & Datacentre
- Datacentre fabrics: VxLAN, EVPN, MP-BGP, iBGP, eBGP, OSPF
- Legacy WAN: MPLS, LDP, VRF
- Redundancy: vPC, PIM
- Segmentation: VLAN, VDOM
- SDN / SD-WAN: Software-Defined Networking, RAN sharing
- Platforms: Cisco IOS & NX-OS, FortiOS
- Security: IPsec VPN
Synchronisation & Optical Networks
- Timing protocols: NTP, PTP (IEEE 1588)
- Transport networks: SDH, SONET, PDH
- Network synchronisation: end-to-end timing distribution
- Analysis: latency, jitter, wander
- Stability metrics: Allan variance, Hadamard variance
Systems & Virtualisation
- Hypervisors: VMware ESXi, Proxmox
- Directory & DNS: Active Directory, DNS/DHCP
- Storage: SAN Fibre Channel
- Backup & monitoring: Veeam, Centreon
- OS: Linux, Windows Server
- Enterprise services: Exchange (online & on-premises), SharePoint (online & on-premises)
Tools & Project Management
- IPAM: Nautobot
- Analysis: Wireshark
- Virtual labs: EVE-NG
- Automation: Python, Node.js, React
- Version control: Git
- Documentation: HLD/LLD
- Project management: Jira, Agile, V-model
Journey
Education
MSc Computing (Security and Reliability)
09/2026 -
Imperial College London
Engineering degree - Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude)
09/2022 - 09/2025
Télécom Saint-Étienne
Specialisation in Networks and Telecommunications
Master's in Telecommunications
09/2024 - 02/2025
Politecnico di Milano
ERASMUS international exchange program in telecommunications engineering
Preparatory Classes for Engineering Schools (CPGE)
09/2020 - 08/2022
Lycée Michel Montaigne
Specialisation in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Sciences (PCSI) / Physics, Chemistry (PC)
Experience
IP Architect
03/2025 - 09/2025
SII Group for Bouygues Telecom
- Deployment of new equipment in 10 VxLAN IP fabrics on MP-BGP EVPN for a total of 28 new TORs
- Prefix integration on interconnection sites with third-party operators (RAN sharing)
- Decommissioning of obsolete equipment
Network Administrator
05/2023 - 06/2023
Touton S.A (International trading group)
- Logical and physical network modelling of company headquarters (IP and SAN)
- Wireless coverage study of office spaces
- Office space modelling, AP placement planning to maximize coverage while minimizing AP count
Projects
Homelab
Complete infrastructure across 2 geographical sites (128 cores, 229GB RAM) with Dell PowerVault MD3660f Fibre Channel SAN and IBM 2005-16B fabric.
Enterprise services: Redundant Active Directory, Exchange Server 2019, SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, centralised Keycloak SSO.
Automation: Centreon monitoring, automated Veeam backup, self-hosted services (Jellyfin, GitLab, Navidrome, ...).
Network lab: Dedicated site with 8 Cisco routers (series 1800 to 4000), POE+ switches, FortiGate for advanced configuration testing.
ROI: 7 years of continuous evolution, infrastructure < €1000 for enterprise datacentre-level expertise.
Certlab
Complete web application for network equipment inventory management and interactive topology creation.
Features: Canvas topology editor with port-to-port connections, tag system (CCNA, CCNP, MPLS, VxLAN, ...), integrated configuration manager.
Architecture: Node.js backend with SQLite database (MySQL migration planned), responsive React frontend, import/export between instances.
Roadmap (WIP): Web installation wizard, multi-user collaboration (ShareLaTeX model), heavy client for automatic SSH configuration injection.
Usage: Tool used daily for personal lab organisation.
Over-engineered BBS
Reproduction of carrier architecture with MPLS backbone (3 LSRs, 2 LERs) interconnecting 2 client sites for Telnet BBS hosting.
Topology: 7 Cisco devices (2900/ISR4331), Catalyst 3650/2960X switches in CE role, logical geographical separation.
Technologies: Automatic LDP label distribution, MP-BGP sessions for VPNv4 route exchange, per-client VRF isolation, OSPF underlay routing.
Validation: MPLS packet monitoring via "packet monitor" function on switches, real-time observation of label encapsulation/distribution.
Result: Client-server connectivity established via Layer 3 VPN, BBS application accessible from remote site.
VxLAN Flood & Learn Fabric with PIM multicast routing
Project leader of a PING (Engineering Project) at Télécom St-Etienne. Our subject was datacentre fabric deployment with MAC learning via multicast.
Architecture: Spine-leaf topology (2 spines, 4 leafs) with 3 virtual servers, OSPF point-to-point underlay, VxLAN flood-and-learn overlay.
Redundancy: vPC (Virtual Port Channel) implementation, server bonding, ARP bug troubleshooting.
Technical challenges: Nexus 9000v image limitations affecting MAC distribution via ARP, theoretical validation of complete architecture.
Deliverables: Professional HLD/LLD documentation, sequenced Excel templates, Visio addressing plans. Evaluation: 17/20
VxLAN MP-BGP EVPN Fabric
Personal project deploying a complete virtual VxLAN fabric (2 spines, 3 TORs with two in vPC redundancy, 1 border-leaf, 1 firewall, OOB management network) based on Cisco Nexus 9kv with MP-BGP EVPN control plane.
Project methodology: Jira management (Epic/Tasks), incremental LLD documentation, initially proposing only L2VNI then L3VNI.
Automation: Creation (WIP) of two automation scripts taking Excel file parameters as input and outputting configurations (underlay and overlay) for each device mentioned in Excel. IP, link, and device management on Nautobot.
Testing: Resilience testing (spine/TOR failover), vPC validation (split-brain protection, peer-link)
Parents' house network
Designing the complete network infrastructure for my parents' new house: 3 racks, 5 switches, around 10 Wi-Fi 7 access points, 6 servers, and a storage array, fully documented following the same HLD/LLD methodology as professional deployments (IP addressing plan, VLAN design, cabling scheme, ...).
EVE-NG network virtualisation cluster
LLD and deployment of a bare-metal cluster of two EVE-NG servers to overcome EVE-NG Community's lack of multi-server clustering support, extending lab capacity across both hypervisors. Servers are interconnected via "virtual cables": dedicated VLANs bridged to EVE-NG cloud networks, including inter-hypervisor connectivity through a firewall for select VLANs.
