Axel Drelon
Sysadmin & network engineer · Paris / Lille
Experience
Server maintenance, customer relations and remote managed services, keeping customer infrastructure running smoothly.
Work-study apprenticeship in systems and network administration.
All-round crew member at a fast-food restaurant: cleaning the dining room in the morning, the lunch rush at noon, and running the counter alone in the afternoon.
Discovered the work of full-stack web developers and graphic designers, and the tools they use.
Education
Computer science degree with a focus on networks and systems.
Majors in mathematics and computer science.
With honours.
Projects
All-in-one proof of concept of OpenStack 2026.1 (Gazpacho) on a Proxmox VM, installed service by service without any automation tooling, with full documentation of every step and issue.
Self-hosted Docker Compose infrastructure on a Debian VM behind NAT: Traefik, Cloudflare Tunnel, CrowdSec as a WAF, automatic subdomain exposure for every service, BookStack for documentation.
Personal banking app: Open Banking (PSD2) aggregation of two banks through Enable Banking, periodic sync and internal transfer detection.
Learning infrastructure as code: cloud-init VMs and LXC containers declared with OpenTofu on Proxmox, secrets kept out of the repo.
Built an IPv6 network to learn BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing and route management.