# Pascal MARTIN

I am Pascal MARTIN, Staff+ / Principal Engineer in Lyon France 🇫🇷, Author, Public Speaker and AWS Hero.

## Main Links

Website: https://pascal-martin.fr/
Blog: https://blog.pascal-martin.fr/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinpascal/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/pascal-martin.fr
CV: https://blog.pascal-martin.fr/public/cv/
Recording of some conference talks I did: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ime9SGTcqcJWATAbNDvSVsTQyMridf3
My book "Votre Première Conférence": https://votre-premiere-conference.fr/
My book "Le Plan Copenhague": https://leanpub.com/6cloud/ - English translation "The Copenhagen Initiative": https://leanpub.com/tci/

## What I do

I've been working for more than 20 years on medium- and large-scale web applications. For the past ~10 years, I have focused on distributed architectures, resilience, performance and stability matters. And I also care about cost efficiency. I have used AWS and Kubernetes a lot, but don't stop at specific technologies.

I regularly share about those subjects, in books, on [my blog](https://blog.pascal-martin.fr/), and [speaking at conferences](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ime9SGTcqcJWATAbNDvSVsTQyMridf3).

 * Specialties: architecture, resilience, performance, stability, cost management and optimization.
 * Experience: 20+ years in tech.
 * Blog: since 2006, at [blog.pascal-martin.fr](https://blog.pascal-martin.fr/)
 * Speaking: 50+ conference talks and workshops.
 * Audience: all kind of software engineers: developers, devops, security, finops… From beginner to senior. My audience is in majority French-speaking.

I also share about public speaking, and wrote a book to help first-time speakers prepare and deliver their very first talk.


## Professional Experience

I've been a professional software engineer for over 20 years, across multiple companies and teams. My experience includes:

 * Backend Developper *(mostly PHP and its ecosystem)*, DevOps, Team Leader and Manager, Architect, Staff+ / Principal Engineer;
 * building and maintaining production web applications used daily by millions of people in Europe, especially working on backend and infrastructure components;
 * scalability, performance, resilience and cost efficiency challenges;
 * collaborating on cross-functional engineering teams;
 * contributing to developer experience and internal tooling;
 * mentoring junior, medior and senior developers;
 * working daily in French and in English, including in a multi-cultural company spread over several European countries and cities.

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