Aurélien Meignen

📍 Estonia

About me

Experienced System Administrator with 3+ years of expertise in virtualized infrastructure management (VMware, Proxmox, LXC). Strong background in L2/L3 technical support. Proficient in Linux environments and network protocols.
After a period of entrepreneurship, looking to refocus on IT & systems administration.

Experience

Independent Investor Full-time

Independent

Oct. 2021 - May 2025

Summary:

Managed a financial portfolio independently on a full-time basis.
Strengthened analytical, decision-making, and adaptability skills in a high-uncertainty environment.
Developed data analysis skills by monitoring real-time financial data feeds and market trends.

Technical Customer Support @ prorealtime trading Full-time

Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France, France

Feb. 2021 - Oct. 2021

Summary:

Provided comprehensive user support, handling technical requests to build trust and enhance client relationships.
Advanced troubleshooting of technical issues related to trading APIs, real-time data feeds and FIX protocol.
Collaboration with the development team to improve technical features of the software.
Technical training of clients on optimal use of ProRealTime software.

FIX Protocol Troubleshooting

System Administrator @ Ecritel Full-time

Clichy, Île-de-France, France

Sept. 2017 - Feb. 2021

Summary:

Design, deployment and management of high-availaible virtualized server architectures using VMware cluster, Proxmox cluster, and containers with LXC.
24/7 monitoring of the infrastructure.
Creation and maintenance of technical procedures and documentation.
Pre-sales activities and customer advice.
Level 2 and 3 technical support for critical environments.

VMware ESXI Proxmox Pfsense Plesk LXC Linux Scripting

Technical support level 1 @ Ecritel Full-time

Paris, Île-de-France, France

April. 2017 - July. 2017

Summary:

As the human interface between customers and the company's technical divisions, we initiate the first analyses and resolution attempts, keeping the escalation rate as low as possible.

Ticket Management Customer Communication Technical Documentation Incident Response Troubleshooting

Skills

Infrastructure & Virtualization

Linux VMware ESXi Proxmox LXC Docker AWS pfSense HA Proxy Plesk

Monitoring & Administration

System Administration Nagios Munin Troubleshooting Data Analysis Ansible

Web & Database

Nginx Apache MySQL API FIX Protocol

Programming & Scripting

Python Bash HTML/CSS PHP

Other Technologies

Blockchain DLT

Projects

Personal Cloud Infrastructure

Design and deployment of a private and secure cloud infrastructure based on open source solutions.

Multi-container architecture with Docker
Implementation of open source software to host online web services
Configuration of a mail server with encryption and anti-spam protection
Setup of an automated and redundant backup

koduscout.ee

Innovative real estate search engine using natural language processing (NLP).
Development of a natural language processing API for interpreting user queries

Education

Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC)

Bachelor's Degree in networking and telecommunications, Computer Science

2017 - 2018

Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC)

Two-year degree, networking and telecommunications, Computer Science

2015 - 2017