Summary
Laurent Prévost is a Principal Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and improving delivery pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure automation for large e-commerce platforms. He has led platform and operations teams at Migros Online and LeShop.ch, building CI/CD chains using Ansible, Jenkins and cloud VM provisioning to support J2EE, NodeJS and automated QA workflows. A hands-on engineer, he authors practical developer tools—such as a maven settings bootstrap and a project scaffolder suite—to accelerate onboarding and generate advanced project templates beyond standard archetypes. His background in Java, web technologies (JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS) and daily MySQL performance tuning lets him bridge development and operations with an eye for measurable performance gains. He also co-founded Probe Dock, applying analytics to test results and shipping a Jenkins/Docker deployment pipeline, showing a persistent interest in observability and developer productivity. Based in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, he combines deep platform expertise with a knack for creating pragmatic, reusable tooling that reduces time-to-production.
13 years of coding experience