Yannick is a Freelance Senior Platform Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and operating secure, scalable infrastructure for managed hosting and e-commerce. He helps teams remove delivery bottlenecks and regain flow through automation, reliability engineering, and platform optimization - from network and storage to Kubernetes. A strong advocate for digital sovereignty, he has led hyperscaler-exit migrations to self-hosted, open platforms with a focus on cost control and data ownership. His work emphasizes end-to-end performance tuning as well as privacy, data protection, and encryption-by-design. Outside of work, he explores CTFs, web security, reverse engineering, and IoT hacking.