Alain has been working with Apache Cassandra since version 0.8 in 2012. He was the first Engineer at teads.tv which had grown to 400+ employees by the time he left, to Join The Last Pickle in January 2016.

During his time at Teads and as TLP consultant, Alain managed and scaled Cassandra clusters across multiple Regions (Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform). His experience with Cassandra from the early days has included upgrading hardware, growing capacity, upgrading, and tuning all the time maintaining Availability. He also evolved data models to take advantage of the latest features and performance as Cassandra improved.

Alain contributes to the Apache Cassandra users mailing list and writing articles in The Last Pickle blog.