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Cloud FinOps & Data Operations at Gameloft

~US$40K/month cloud savings and faster ETL for a global gaming estate

Gameloft — contribution within the infrastructure team

Production work for an employer; there is no public demo.

Production cloud, data engineering, reliability and FinOps work for worldwide mobile-game and digital-marketing infrastructure across a private data center, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure and GCP.

Problem & business context

A global, multi-cloud gaming estate — a Montreal private data center plus AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure and GCP — needed lower cloud costs, faster data processing and reliable operations across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

My role & contribution

Senior DevOps, FinOps & Data Engineer within the infrastructure team (11/2019 – 04/2024).

What I built or designed

  • FinOps: usage analysis, infrastructure optimization and removal of obsolete data/storage
  • Data engineering: Kafka ingestion, AWS Glue, data lakes and Aurora/Couchbase/BigQuery integration
  • Contributed to the team migration of about two-thirds of a 2,000-server bare-metal estate to AWS and Alibaba Cloud
  • Operated EC2, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS and SQL/NoSQL environments; supported Helm and Jenkins/GitLab CI

Outcomes

  • Cloud spend reduced by approximately US$40,000 per month
  • Selected ETL processing times reduced from approximately three days to a few hours
  • Three performance-related promotions