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.
Florent Collin
Lead Cloud Developer @ Necko Technologies
Belgium
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