About FPInsight

Thierry Bourrillon — Founder & Principal Consultant

Profile

Software and data architect with 26 years of experience designing and delivering critical systems internationally. An atypical career path spanning national energy control centres (SCADA-EMS), Big Data platforms for retail and luxury, and a CTO role at an IoT startup.

Founded FPInsight in 2016 to help large organisations with their data transformations — architecture, cloud migration, real-time streaming — while also building technology products of my own.

I code, I architect, I ship. No slides without implementation behind them.

Core competencies

  • Data Architecture: Data Mesh, Data Lake, Data Vault, Data Warehouse, Lambda/Kappa
  • Data Engineering: batch and streaming pipelines, ETL/ELT, productionisation, performance tuning
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP (BigQuery, GKE, Composer, Dataflow), AWS (6 certifications)
  • Software Development: Scala, Rust, Haskell, Python, Java, C/C++
  • Big Data Ecosystem: Spark, Flink, Kafka / Kafka Streams, Hadoop, dbt
  • DevOps: Kubernetes (CKAD), Terraform (certified), Kustomize, Ansible
  • Due Diligence & Audit: technical M&A assessment, strategic project audit, infrastructure studies
  • Industry Domains: Retail, Luxury, Energy, Smart Grids, IoT, EdTech

Key experience

  • Lead Software Engineer — Kering (2021—present): Technical lead for Customer domain data products on GCP/BigQuery/dbt
  • Senior Enterprise Architect — La Poste (2020—2021): Datalake architecture, real-time e-commerce pipeline
  • Lead Data Architect — Carrefour (2016—2019): Phenix programme, real-time streaming platform, GCP migration
  • CTO — Embix, Alstom/Bouygues JV (2011—2014): Smart Grid IoT SaaS platform
  • Project Manager — Alstom (2000—2010): Energy management systems for Ireland, South Africa, Iceland, South Korea

Certifications

  • AWS: Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, Advanced Networking Specialty, Developer Associate, SysOps Associate, Cloud Practitioner
  • Kubernetes: CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)
  • HashiCorp: Terraform Associate, Consul Associate
  • GCP: Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning Specialisation

Industry domains

  • Retail: Carrefour — 4 years of data architecture in large-scale retail
  • Luxury: Kering — data products for marketing and customer intelligence
  • Energy & Smart Grids: 16 years (Alstom, Embix) — SCADA-EMS, energy markets, IoT
  • Electric Mobility: due diligence, V2G, charging infrastructure
  • EdTech: Tatami — adaptive learning

Master's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — Université Paris-Sud (1999)