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Romain Boulanger
Romain Boulanger
Infra/Cloud Architect with DevSecOps mindset | Speaker | Silicon Chalet Ambassador
34 years old, 12 years of experience

Professional Experiences
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Cloud and DevSecOps Architect
 Piguet Galland & Cie SA July 2025 - Today Geneva, Switzerland
  • Development of GitLab CI/CD components to establish a unified standard and a reusable, “ready-to-use” library;
  • Use of Packer, OpenTofu, and Ansible to automate the creation and provisioning of virtual machines on demand within minutes;
  • Architecture and automated deployment of an Azure Landing Zone using OpenTofu, ensuring best practices, centralised governance, and global security for all deployed resources;
  • Migration from RHEL 8 and RKE2 to Talos Linux and Cluster API for our next-generation Kubernetes clusters, based on a Cloud and On-Premises immutable infrastructure;
  • 100% “as code” deployment using Argo CD and Kargo, leveraging a GitOps approach and full application lifecycle management;
  • Encryption of communications using Istio Ambient and network filtering with Cilium to reduce the attack surface and implement a Zero Trust architecture;
  • Implementation of a unified and proactive observability stack with Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Grafana (LGTM stack);
  • Delivery of internal training sessions;
  • Organisation of DevSecOps sharing sessions and demonstrations to promote internal tools and services to IT teams.
Ambassador and Speaker
 Silicon Chalet September 2024 - Today Switzerland
  • Over 2,450 community members;
  • Organising Meetup events;
  • Presenting various technical topics related to Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and much more!
Cloud Engineer, Architect and Trainer
 SoKube June 2023 - June 2025 Geneva, Switzerland
  • Development of Landing Zone and network architectures in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud;
  • Migration to the Cloud, integrating security, observability and FinOps best practices;
  • Container approach (Docker, Podman or Containerd) and deployment of Kubernetes on-premise (RKE) and in the Cloud (AKS and GKE);
  • Designing reliable CIs (GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps) and implement GitOps practices to avoid drifts;
  • Infrastructure creation with Terraform or OpenTofu, and configuration management with Packer and Ansible;
  • Setting up observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager and Loki;
  • Giving training courses (DevSecOps, FinOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.) and writing training materials;
  • Speaker at various conferences, meetups and technical workshops;
  • Creation of technical and feedback articles.
Cloud Engineer and Trainer
 SFEIR March 2020 - May 2023 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
  • Setting up a Landing Zone with Terraform in AWS and Google Cloud;
  • Creation of virtual machine images with Packer and Ansible to aim creating an immutable infrastructure;
  • Configuration of a CI/CD in GitLab CI to check the code syntax with Tflint and various security flaws with Checkov, and finally to deploy all the components of the Landing Zone;
  • Implementation of Cloud security best practices to prevent data exfiltration and reduce the potential attack surface;
  • Monitoring management with Prometheus, Grafana and Dynatrace;
  • Retrieving logs with ELK;
  • Creation of GKE clusters and deployment of Helm charts with Argo CD;
  • Setting up the security part of Kubernetes clusters (e.g Network Policy, Security Context);
  • Maintaining DevOps tools: Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonar, GitLab;
  • Giving training courses in Google Cloud and Kubernetes (CKAD, CKA and CKS).
Cloud Builder
 WeScale January 2019 - February 2020 Paris, France
  • Implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines, preparation for application containerisation in AWS Fargate with Kaniko and finally, migration to the internal offer in AWS for the SNCF assistant;
  • Setting up the infrastructure-as-code in Azure, aiming high availability and securing the platform for healthcare sector;
  • Providing a tool to deploy different environments with Terraform and Ansible for Canal+’s IT team.
If you’d like to know more about me, feel free to check out my LinkedIn profile.

Education
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Master - Modelling and Management of Organisations
 Centrale Lille 2013 - 2014 Lille, France
Expert in IT and Information Systems
 EPSI Arras 2009 - 2014 Arras, France

Certifications
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Professional Cloud Architect Certification
Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification
Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification
Authorized Trainer
KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
KCSA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Kubestronaut
Kubernetes Trainer
GitLab Hero

Blog
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blog.filador.ch is my personal and technical blog aiming to share knowledge through my daily technology watch. Blog posts are currently in French and English and I manage the infrastructure by myself.

Conferences and Meetups
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Here’s the list of my previous conferences and meetups as a speaker:

 WeSpeakCloud 2019:
Comment optimiser ma CI/CD avec Drone.io sur k3s ?
 Paris Container Day 2021:
K3S, le Kubernetes allégé construit mes images sans Docker
 Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2023:
Déployer de manière dynamique son code Terraform avec GitLab CI
 Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2024:
Argo et Flux sont dans un Kargo, lequel tombe à l'eau ?
 Silicon Chalet (Lausanne) 2024:
Cloud Security
 Silicon Chalet (Geneva) 2024:
Deploying using GitOps from environment to environment with Kargo
 Silicon Chalet (Geneva) 2025:
Infrastructure as code, best practices and pitfalls to avoid
The recipe for a successful Landing Zone
 Konfluence 2025:
Secure all the things: From IaC to Kubernetes
 Devoxx France 2026:
Secure all the things: From IaC to Kubernetes
GitOps and multi-environment deployment: a story of promotion
 Silicon Chalet (Geneva) 2026:
From mutable to immutable OS: Our Kubernetes Cluster API journey

Languages, soft skills and hobbies
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 Languages:
French - Native
English - Full professional proficiency
 Soft skills:
Curious
Passionate
Autonomous
Perfectionist (just a little bit 😁)
 Hobbies:
Gym
Running
Blogging
Science Fiction