Thomas Poindessous
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Poindessous is a Specialist Director and cloud-native operations leader with 13 years of experience designing and running resilient, scalable architectures on AWS and GCP. He blends hands-on engineering—Terraform, Kubernetes, IaC and DevOps—with operational stewardship, leading RUN teams and managing incident reviews, COPILs and on-call schedules. As a long-time contributor to HashiCorp's Terraform provider for Google Cloud, he has implemented GCP resources like google_compute_snapshot and improved provider integration, showing deep API and infrastructure expertise. He progressed from systems and web production leadership at FONCIA to CTO/COO-level responsibilities at SKALE-5 and now advises at Deloitte, maintaining a strong practical grounding in both legacy and cloud-native systems. Based in Bordeaux, he pairs technical rigor with a pragmatic focus on operational continuity—and outside work he’s a surfer who appreciates local culture (team chocolatine and canelés).
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur en informatique, Systèmes, Réseaux et Sécurité, Ingénieur en informatique, Systèmes, Réseaux et Sécurité at EPITABac, S, Bac, S at Lycée Valin, La Rochelle
English
Github Skills (14)
gcp10
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
google-cloud-platform10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
cloud-computing10
aac10
terraform10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
go-testing8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Terraform Provider for Google Cloud Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's contributions primarily involve developing new features and enhancing the Google Cloud Terraform provider. They focused on adding and testing resources like `google_compute_snapshot`, including encryption key handling. Additionally, the user made infrastructure-related changes, such as updating the image type used and adjusting the deletion process to align with cloud operations. Their work also included refactoring and documentation updates to improve clarity.
google-cloud-platformterraform-providerterraformgoogle-cloud
hashicorp/terraform
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:32 commits, 15 PRs, 29 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on adding and refining Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resource management capabilities within the Terraform provider for HashiCorp. Their work included implementing a new resource type, `google_compute_snapshot`, and integrating it with the existing provider structure. They also made improvements to existing resources, such as `google_compute_disk`, by enabling the use of URIs for snapshot names. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of GCP APIs and Terraform's provider development framework.
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