Julien Leloup
About Julien Leloup
Julien Leloup is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Talend, where he has worked since 2016. He specializes in infrastructure coding, centralized logging, and observability solutions, utilizing tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Grafana Tempo.
Work at Talend
Julien Leloup has been serving as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Talend since 2016. In this role, he has focused on infrastructure coding and deployment using tools such as Ansible, Helm, and Terraform. He has implemented centralized logging solutions with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Kafka. Additionally, he has developed distributed tracing capabilities with Grafana Tempo to enhance observability. Julien has also designed and maintained the observability stack for Talend Cloud, emphasizing cloud and container monitoring with Prometheus and Thanos. His responsibilities include defining alerting and dashboarding practices and establishing service level objectives (SLOs) and on-call management processes.
Education and Expertise
Julien Leloup has a solid educational background in computer science and telecommunications. He studied at Université de Metz, where he earned a Master's degree in Informatique from 2006 to 2007. Prior to that, he obtained a Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie in Génie Télécommunications et Réseaux from IUT de Colmar between 2002 and 2004. He also completed a Licence in Technologies de l'information at Université de Metz from 2004 to 2005. His expertise encompasses site reliability engineering, cloud computing, and network security.
Background
Before joining Talend, Julien Leloup worked at Dassault Systemes as a Cloud Computing Engineer from 2013 to 2016. His experience also includes a six-year tenure at Sopra as a System & Networks Engineer from 2007 to 2013. These roles provided him with a strong foundation in cloud technologies and systems engineering, which he has leveraged in his current position at Talend.
Technical Skills and Tools
Julien Leloup utilizes a range of technical tools and platforms in his role at Talend. He employs AWS and Azure cloud services for infrastructure management and Kubernetes for container orchestration. His work also involves using Prometheus and Thanos for monitoring, as well as implementing logging and tracing solutions with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Kafka, and Grafana Tempo. These tools are integral to his efforts in maintaining the reliability and performance of Talend's cloud services.