Brest, France · Senior Software Engineer

Patricio Tula

Distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure — real-time, low-latency services at scale.

Senior Software Engineer specialized in distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure. Experienced in designing and operating real-time, low-latency services at scale (up to Tbps traffic), with a focus on reliability, observability, and production excellence. Strong contributor to technical leadership, team maturity, and cross-functional execution in fast-growth environments.

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focus

Core focus

  • distributed-systems

    Event-driven and streaming architectures for real-time ingestion, analysis, and orchestration across large production fleets.

  • high-throughput

    Low-latency services under heavy load — including anti-DDoS orchestration and network systems operating at multi-Tbit/s scale.

  • reliability

    Observability, fault tolerance, and production ownership: metrics, incident readiness, and measurable performance improvements.

stack

  • Go
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • gRPC
  • TemporalIO
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

selected.work

Highlights

  • Anti-DDoS orchestration

    OVHcloud · Network Defense

    Designed and deployed a low-latency gRPC streaming orchestration service for real-time traffic analysis and mitigation. Built distributed data pipelines and a high-performance rule-processing engine protecting edge, backbone, and datacenter infrastructure up to 1.3 Tbit/s.

    • Go
    • gRPC
    • Kubernetes
    • MongoDB
    • PostgreSQL
    • Helm
    production
  • Baremetal network systems

    OVHcloud · Baremetal System Network

    Modernizing legacy network management for reliability and operational performance. Built and optimized batch processes in Perl and Go, designed Kubernetes architectures with Docker and KEDA, and improved stability through validation, observability, and SRE collaboration.

    • Go
    • Perl
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • KEDA
    production
  • Network overlay automation

    OVHcloud · Network Automation

    APIs and TemporalIO workflows to manage OVHcloud network overlays with Go, PostgreSQL, and Domain-Driven Design. Contributed to BYOIP and Additional IP for flexible IPv4/IPv6 allocation, while maintaining high-traffic Python underlay tooling and vendor automation (Arista EOS, Juniper Junos).

    • Go
    • TemporalIO
    • PostgreSQL
    • Python
    • DDD
    production
  • LegalOps

    Side project · AI-assisted legal ops

    Operational intelligence platform for labor-law workflows: bulk data ingest, opportunity detection, case prioritization, and draft document generation under professional review. Full-stack product work on top of domain-heavy operations.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • AI/LLM
    • Tailwind
  • Deudas UOM

    Side project · Go API + React

    Tooling for calculating and pursuing employer debt owed to the metalworkers’ union (UOM). Go backend with clean architecture (domain, adapters, httpapi), React SPA, and deploy on Vercel (SPA + Go Function) with local sqlite or Turso/Blob adapters.

    • Go
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • SQLite
    • Turso
    • Vercel
  • LeapTower

    Personal · frontend / interactive

    Experimental video game (with Federico Marino) exhibited at Centro Cultural San Martín for Game On — over 1,000 visitors. Older work, kept here as a signal of frontend craft and shipping interactive UI beyond backend systems.

    • Frontend
    • Interactive
    • Game

career.timeline

Experience

  1. Jul 2025 — Present

    Brest, France

    Senior Software Engineer — Baremetal System Network · OVHcloud

    • Modernizing and scaling legacy network management systems for reliability, maintainability, and operational performance.
    • Built and optimized batch processes in Perl and Go to automate configuration and management of network overlays.
    • Implemented observability metrics that exposed bottlenecks and enabled measurable performance improvements.
    • Designed Kubernetes architectures, containerized services with Docker/KEDA, and supported production operations with SRE teams.
    • Go
    • Perl
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • KEDA
  2. Feb 2024 — Sep 2025

    Brest, France

    Software Engineer — Network Defense Orchestration · OVHcloud

    • Built gRPC-based, event-driven applications to orchestrate OVHcloud’s anti-DDoS infrastructure.
    • Designed a low-latency gRPC streaming orchestration service for real-time traffic analysis under high load.
    • Developed a high-performance rule-processing engine for threat mitigation across infrastructure up to 1.3 Tbit/s.
    • Operated Kubernetes microservices and data models in MongoDB/PostgreSQL for high-throughput ingestion and querying.
    • Go
    • gRPC
    • Kubernetes
    • MongoDB
    • PostgreSQL
    • Helm
  3. Sep 2021 — Feb 2024

    Paris, France

    Software Engineer — Network Automation · OVHcloud

    • Designed APIs to manage the overlay network layer using Go, TemporalIO, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Domain-Driven Design.
    • Maintained and optimized high-traffic Python applications supporting the network underlay.
    • Automated Arista EOS and Juniper Junos configurations; contributed to BYOIP and Additional IP workflows.
    • Advocated Agile and DDD practices and coordinated delivery across product and engineering stakeholders.
    • Go
    • TemporalIO
    • PostgreSQL
    • Python
    • Kubernetes
    • DDD
  4. Jul 2019 — Sep 2021

    Paris, France

    DevOps Engineer · ORNESS

    • Ran performance tests with Prometheus and Grafana to isolate bottlenecks and guide improvements.
    • Built infrastructure automation with Terraform and Kubernetes; maintained Python/Flask backends and Jenkins CI/CD.
    • Contributed to OpenStack source code in a Scrum environment.
    • Python
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • Jenkins
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
  5. Jan 2018 — Dec 2018

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Full Stack Engineer · Ekumen (InOrbit)

    • Designed and developed a robotic fleet control cloud application using ROS, ReactJS, Node.js, and Jest.
    • Improved CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker, and AWS ECS; built simulations and testbenches for robotic navigation in Python.
    • ROS
    • React
    • Node.js
    • Python
    • Docker
    • AWS ECS
  6. Jul 2017 — Jan 2018

    Brest, France

    R&D Software Intern · IMT Atlantique

    • Built a production-like cloud application for CHRU Brest under a European-funded research program.
    • Published “An implementation of an imitation game with ASD children to learn nursery rhymes.”
    • JavaScript
    • Python
    • Node.js
    • gRPC
    • C++
  7. Jul 2015 — Jan 2017

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Junior Full Stack Developer · Ideamatic

    • Designed and implemented a 3D graphics rendering application with ReactJS and PHP/CakePHP.
    • JavaScript
    • React
    • PHP

education

Education

  • 2019

    Telecom Engineer · IMT Atlantique (Telecom Bretagne)

    Brest, France

    Telecommunications, networking, and software systems.

  • 2017

    Electronic Engineer · Universidad de Buenos Aires

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Networking, distributed systems, and embedded development.

languages

  • Spanish · Native
  • French · Bilingual
  • English · B2

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