Florent Collin

Lead Cloud Developer @ Necko Technologies
Belgium

Hello! I'm Florent. I work as a Lead Cloud Developer specializing in AWS. My main role is to manage and work on cloud-based projects from concept to production.

Work Experience

Necko Technologies

Lead Cloud Developer (Sept 2024 – Present)
  • Designed a scalable SEO pre-rendering pipeline using AWS and Playwright, architected to handle over 1M pages/day (currently in staging)
  • Designed and deployed a multi-tenant research platform supporting hundreds of clinicians and researchers in Europe (production launch scheduled)
  • Built a serverless article classification pipeline using Node.js, Azure Functions, and GPT-4o, enabling automated processing of science-related news and reducing manual annotation effort by 90%
  • Responsible for efforts to onboard new developers. Acted as the primary point of technical and organizational reference for knowledge on the team and organized their tasks
Cloud Developer (Aug 2022 – Sept 2024)
  • Managed AWS infrastructure supporting 200+ e-commerce enterprise clients, handling 50M+ HTTPS requests daily
  • Led AWS CDK and PostgreSQL workshops, enabling 20+ developers to contribute to infrastructure code and improve their database knowledge
  • Migrated over 6 VMs and databases running on OpenShift to a containerized solution using AWS ECS and RDS
  • Built a video-generation platform on AWS Batch, processing 12,000+ medical videos
Intern Cloud Developer (Aug 2021 – Oct 2021)
  • Built an AWS pipeline syncing financial APIs (API Gateway, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB), saving over 5 hours/month per client

University of Mons (UMons)

Algorithm Lab Intern (Aug 2020)
  • Implemented a time-based shortest path algorithm in C++ using QGIS and OpenStreetMap

Data Monitor

Backend Developer (Jul 2019)
  • Built a mobility data dashboard using React, Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL with PostGIS extension

Skills

  • Languages: TypeScript, Python, Go
  • Frameworks/Tools: CDK, React, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions
  • Concepts: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Serverless, CI/CD Pipelines
  • Certifications: AWS Certified SA Pro, DevOps Pro
  • Spoken Languages: French (native), English (professional)

Education

Master of Computer Science

2022 · University of Mons (UMons), Belgium
  • Master's thesis on a distributed scheduling protocol for wireless devices written in Go
  • Teaching assistant for over 100 first-year students during hands-on courses in Python and Java

Bachelor of Computer Science

2020 · University of Mons (UMons), Belgium