T o produce great results, the agile approach to product development, deployment, and adoption demands a strong relationship between development and operations teams. Peer Mountain’s Blockchain DevOps Engineer, Florian Lagouche, ensures that communication and collaboration between these groups remains clear and effective.

At the age of 25, Florian already has a wealth of experience in the relatively new field of DevOps. An enthusiastic technophile, he began his studies at Epitech Graduate School of Digital Innovation in Nancy, France, in 2010. Three years later, Florian did a year of study at Beijing Jiaotong University, then completed his education at Epitech Paris.

Florian’s passion for tech kept him active outside the classrooms and computer labs. He did several internships before landing his first DevOps job at Boursorama, a subsidiary of global financial giant Société Générale. Florian’s two years at the French online bank proved to be an invaluable learning experience. During that time he upgraded Boursorama’s delivery system so that his team could push code on dozens of servers in just a few seconds, and roll back to a previous version immediately if necessary.

In 2016, blockchain and cryptocurrencies captured Florian’s interest; he began working for Bitcoin analytics tool provider Scorechain in October that year. Florian and his team helped other companies, mostly financial institutions, learn about, and benefit from, blockchain tech. He also automated nearly every part of the Scorechain infrastructure, enabling developers to simply push their code to the git repository to automatically get a live version of it, after which they can push to production with one click.

KYC3 got in touch with Florian in late 2017. They offered him the opportunity to apply his DevOps skills and experience to their new Peer Mountain project. Florian now manages the blockchain startup’s development cluster, as well as the KYC3 production clusters. To further help Peer Mountain deliver its decentralized trust, commerce, and compliance ecosystem, Florian also manages the blockchain startup’s infrastructure and automates product delivery processes.

Florian stays active both physically and mentally in his spare time. He’s an avid sportsman who enjoys running, swimming, and skiing. While he’s aware of smart home tools like Google Home and Amazon Alexa, Florian dedicates time to automating household appliances and electronics, such as lights and speakers.