hexifox - Simon Renault

About me

Welcome to my portfolio site! I'm Simon, a French/British DevOps engineer.

I have lived in the UK for the past ten years, where I have graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a MRes (Master's degree by Research) in Computer and Data Science, focusing on IoT. I come from an Electronics and communications background (BEng) that I graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2016.

I have close to ten years of experience as an IT technician, project engineer, web & software developer, technical director of a startup, and now Senior DevOps engineer.

In my spare time, I tinker with Automation, Networks, Electronics & 3d printing, DIY and anything tech related as can been seen in the projects section of my portfolio.

I also play tennis and climb, surf & snowboard, travel a fair bit, love music, aspire to take better photos and tend to write a few blog posts here and there.

Please reach out and say hi!

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Resume

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Resume

Here's my most up-to-date resume! Please click on it to get a full view.

Education & Training

2013 - 2016

BEng

2013 - 2016

BEng

London Metropolitan University

Electronics & Communications - First-class honours \n Top 40 students

2016 - 2020

MRes

2016 - 2020

MRes

Leeds Beckett University

Research on IoT, Computer and Data Science. Used BLE devices to analyse indoor activity and position.

Experience

Since 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

Since 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

Kudan

Leading the Infrastructure team to focus on better automation & support for the development team. In charge of IT & networking as well. Keys services include Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Ansible. Internal tooling using Docker, Bash, Python & Groovy.

2020 - 2022

DevOps engineer

2020 - 2022

DevOps engineer

Kudan

In charge of implementing, managing and upgrading of CI/CD operations for the development team. Working towards automation of tasks using Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Ansible. Development and management of internal tooling using Bash, Python & Groovy.

2018 - 2020

Technical Director

2018 - 2020

Technical Director

Omega Analytic Systems

Full stack development (Mobile and Web app, Serverless infrastructure), design and implementation of custom B2C and B2B solutions.

2016 - 2018

Project Engineer

2016 - 2018

Project Engineer

Omega Security Systems

From managing projects to developing and implementing custom solution for industrial partners.

2014 - 2016

IT Assistant

2014 - 2016

IT Assistant

World ORT

Implementation, design and maintenance of IT solutions and operations.

Projects

2020

Boxz

AWS, Serverless, React

2020

Boxz

Inventory management system, with both a react website and react native application. Serverless backend on AWS!

2020

IPS - Thread/BLE

IoT, BLE, Thread

2020

IPS - Thread/BLE

Indoor Positioning System - BLE/Thread: System designed to locate persons and objects indoors.

2018

IPS - WiFi/BLE

IoT, BLE, WiFi

2018

IPS - WiFi/BLE

Indoor Positioning System - BLE/WiFi: System designed to locate persons and objects indoors.

2016

RemoteBot

IoT, RPi, BEng

2016

RemoteBot

BEng - 3rd Year University project: Remote-controlled Raspberry pi, with various sensors and camera.

2014

404 Page - Rocket

404 Page - Rocket

CSS, HTML

2014

404 Page - Rocket

404 Page - Rocket design: Small footprint for low internet access areas (BEng 2nd Year).

Writing

Jan 2020

3 min

IoT Series — Part 2 Internet of Things in the Business sector

Jan 2020

3 min

IoT Series — Part 2 Internet of Things in the Business sector

Adoption of the IoT, and its growth ...

Jan 2020

3 min

IoT Series — Part 1 What is the internet of things, and how it is used?

Jan 2020

3 min

IoT Series — Part 1 What is the internet of things, and how it is used?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the name given to the collection of co ...