Bertrand HUDZIA

Education, health management and activity planning. Taking care of dependents.

For the past 15 years, I have been the CIO at OVH. I started in 2002 in a startup with 10 employees and helped it grow into a company with 16 subsidiaries on 3 continents and over 2500 employees. I lead the infrastructure, strategy, technology and teams on achieving the company's goals. Point of contact for implementing the needs of all business units and internal departments such as the legal team and HR worldwide. A position with multiple tasks and responsibilities in a fast growing startup company.

In charge of finding and establishing relationships with new business partners as well as identifying new technologies that will impact the future of the company strategy. Introduced the company to Open Compute Project (OCP) and led its adoption within OVH which now produces its own OCP rack since 2018.

Effort with Tilera on network processing which later became the VxLAN standard. This technology was further expanded to become the core network protection service within OVH.

Designed, installed, and managed the PCI-DSS datacenter physical access and reporting. Development, installation, handling and maintenance of company-wide secured access systems with card and fingerprints. Build from scratch a payment card processing unit: from the architecture, partnership with card providers, throughout the code, quality assessment, to the PCI-DSS certification. - Handled OVH’s PCI-DSS certification since 2006.

Bootstrapped all of OVH's country websites and subsidiaries, information systems, payments, taxes and handling all internal accesses for employees. Point of contact for implementing the needs of all business units and internal departments such as the legal team and HR worldwide.

Managed the core team to reach full potential. Rationalize process to minimize technical debt while ensuring adoption of best practice every project - Made sure the core team was able to perform while under budget and hardware limitations via the introduction of DevOps principle. Made it change from the “editing code in production”, through a creative development solution based on chroot in 2004, to the git/jira state with development, testing, and acceptance environment.

With the teams, kept and maintained the SI running optimally while guaranteeing the integration of external and new projects. Structured and managed the main database (MySQL/MariaDB) for production, development, and backup. Upgraded legacy bare metal SI to partial VMware SI with deploy on demand, like Docker/Kubernetes was to be. Designed tools for HR and Billing team in compliance with each subsidiary’s local laws. Provided BCP and DRP that were unfortunately successfully applied. Migrated support to OTRS

Person to point for the technical aspect of the relationship with banks and payment industries. Managed the full life cycle of the payment solution from the first contact to the production phase, anti-fraud and the retirement of the solutions : PayPal (EU, CA and US), Visa (EU, CA and US), MasterCard (EU, CA and US), PayU (former Platnosci - PL), Ideal (Netherlands), SEPA (EU), bank wire (FR, BE, DE, PT, IT, LT, FI ...), TVP (Spain), check (FR, BE), Tunisia Postal Bank.

Played a key role in creating service reliability engineering (SRE) practice within the company. Contributed to solving hundreds of production incidents. Managed cybersecurity effort and thwarted network attacks in real time, datacenter issues, bugs. Handled of all emergencies regarding the SI, SI's network, payment systems, website, and SI's datacenter in 24/7.

Management of the complexity and implementation of the isolation of the IS and all internal access to the IS, network, and other infrastructure in order to respect the legal requirements between the specific CA/US laws and French/European laws. Payment system and PayPal System for the CA/US customers. Handling the prod of CA/US architecture and Website.

Created an internal consulting organization within OVH dedicated to helping customers to handle their infrastructure. Managed Infogerance's billing, contractual aspect.

Managed a team of 6 persons handling OVH SI, billing, UX and website. Designed OVH custom storage cluster solution using diskless operating system. This solution later became the core to OVH rescue, netboot installation system, and a gaming offer. Ultimately the storage cluster system became the main enabler of the VPS offer.

Designed and ran ebackup.fr, an online backup solution with CD/DVD/BLU-RAY shipment @home. Designed and ran mysql-gratuit.fr, an online free service offering MySQL databases.

Installed a computer classroom and instructed teachers in Burkina Faso