Michaël Pambo Ognana

Michaël PAMBO OGNANA

AI Platform Engineer · LLM Integration & AI Enablement
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
AWS AI Practitioner OTCA CKA AWS SysOps Admin
"I have spent my career getting software to ship reliably, first as a developer and now on the platform side. Automation, reliability and security are where I do my best work, and I am holding AI in production to the same standards."

I am building an Agentic AI practice on top of 5+ years of cloud platform work. I already run LLM integration in production: an AI gateway, LLM observability, MCP-based automation. My view is simple. AI should meet the same security and governance bar as everything else we run.

Currently learning: agent orchestration (LangChain, CrewAI), RAG pipelines and agent evaluation, mostly by building things and through the AI-Coffee meetup I founded.
01 — AI

LLM Integration

Bedrock and Claude in production, with MCP agent skills and LLM observability.
02 — Platform

Secure by Design

Production platforms with security, auditability and cost control built in.
03 — Cloud

Cloud & Delivery

EKS on AWS with Terraform, and the same artefact from commit to production.
Pictet Asset Management
June 2024 – May 2026 · Geneva
Platform Engineer AI Enablement

I designed and ran secure cloud-native platforms on AWS, EKS and Terraform, then built the AI layer on top: an AI gateway, LLM observability and agentic automation. The point was to give business teams AI that meets the same security and governance bar as everything else.

  • Brought AI to business teams by integrating AWS Bedrock and Claude behind a central AI gateway (LiteLLM), giving unified access, model routing and cost governance
  • Built monitoring and traceability over LLM traffic to meet security audit and DLP requirements, shipping logs to CloudWatch and S3
  • Developing AI agent skills to move SOP-based workflows towards intelligent automation
  • Built and deployed secure, scalable platforms for DevOps and business teams on Kubernetes (EKS, Karpenter, Cilium), with Terraform across AWS
  • Deployed and maintained EUC (End-User Computing) solutions: ready-to-use environments for developers and data scientists, via Coder
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) for app and infrastructure delivery, backup/restore, and platform upgrades
  • Shared knowledge and practice around AI workflows and agentic paradigms (n8n, MCP); team SME for observability platform selection
Groupe SEB
Mar 2023 – Apr 2024 · Lyon
Cloud DevOps Specialist

As a DevOps Specialist, I migrated the DCP (Digital Cooking Platform) from EC2 to Kubernetes (EKS) using Terraform and Ansible, and built a Kubernetes integration platform that gave teams Jenkins instances on demand.

  • Implemented the target cloud architecture and migrated the Digital Cooking Platform from EC2 to Kubernetes (EKS) with Terraform automation
  • Provisioned on-demand Jenkins instances for teams through a GitOps workflow with ArgoCD
  • Created Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for observability
  • Optimised Kubernetes resources to improve performance and reduce costs (FinOps)
  • Deployed the CrowdStrike antivirus solution across the Kubernetes clusters
  • Created and migrated Jenkins jobs; configured GitHub Actions workflows for CI/CD automation
  • Used IaC with Ansible and Terraform to automate infrastructure component deployments
ITS Group / Groupe SNCF
Dec 2021 – Feb 2023 · Lyon
DevOps Engineer

On assignment for SNCF as a DevOps Engineer in the Ops team on TRAIN CONNECT, I modernised and kept in service the real-time ground-to-train data exchange platform behind connected trains. A large-scale hybrid AWS and on-premises system spanning several teams.

  • Orchestrated and ran the containerised environments (Docker, AWS ECS and EKS) that keep the real-time data flows scalable
  • Developed Helm charts and automated deployments via Jenkins and Ansible
  • Designed and deployed highly available, secure AWS architectures with Terraform, automating IAM, security groups and certificates
  • Implemented cross-cutting platform components (Traefik, HiveMQ, Nginx)
  • Load testing, resilience analysis and monitoring (Datadog, New Relic), with improvement proposals
  • Designed and optimised job performance; raised and tracked tickets with AWS support
  • Collaborated with development and testing teams to resolve anomalies and write technical documentation
INEAT Lyon / Cromology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · Lyon
DevOps Fullstack Software Engineer

DevOps consultant and Fullstack Developer at Cromology Lyon, where I led the client's DevOps transformation and CI/CD automation while contributing to fullstack feature development.

  • Led client-facing DevOps transformation: CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI targeting on-premises RHEL
  • Automated packaging and delivery processes with Azure DevOps
  • Designed and developed backend PHP and frontend React modules for a quote simulator
  • Wrote technical and application architecture documentation
  • Active participation in the DevOps community and tech watch around microservices architectures
ACOSS / URSSAF
Dec 2013 – Jan 2020 · Saint-Priest
Software Engineer
  • Harmonised DevOps practices and automated CI/CD pipelines (SVN → GitLab migration)
  • Benchmarked cloud solutions (OpenStack, Azure, OpenShift) and led Docker/Kubernetes acculturation
  • Planned and documented cloud migration strategies
  • Developed C#/.NET 4.6 applications; led the technical foundation team and performed code quality audits