# Solution Architect — Skills Profile

> **Proficiency scale:** *Proficient* (working knowledge, can contribute under guidance) · *Advanced* (autonomous, can lead day-to-day work) · *Expert* (reference person, designs and owns the area)

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## Architecture & System Design
- Software design patterns: **Expert**
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD): **Expert**
- CQRS: **Expert**
- Event-Driven Architecture: **Expert**
- Microservices & client/server architectures: **Expert**
- REST APIs / OpenAPI: **Advanced**
- UML modeling: **Proficient**

## Architecture Practice
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs): **Expert**
- C4 modeling: **Expert**
- Technical RFCs: **Expert**
- Technology radar & standards setting: **Expert**

## Cross-Cutting Concerns
- API gateway patterns: **Expert**
- Performance & scalability tuning: **Expert**

## Backend Development
- C# / .NET (Core / 8+): **Expert**
- Entity Framework Core (8+): **Expert**
- MSBuild & build customization: **Expert**
- Roslyn Code Analyzers: **Advanced**
- xUnit & Test-Driven Development: **Advanced**

## Frontend Development
- Blazor (Server & WebAssembly), with MudBlazor: **Expert**
- SASS / SCSS: **Expert**

## Identity & Access Management
- OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, JWT: **Expert**
- Keycloak — deployment, administration, troubleshooting, API: **Expert**
- Azure Entra ID: **Advanced**
- LDAP & Kerberos: **Advanced**

## Messaging & Integration
- RabbitMQ — deployment, clustering, administration, troubleshooting: **Expert**
- Azure Service Bus — deployment, administration, troubleshooting: **Advanced**
- IBM MQ — administration, usage: **Advanced**

## Data Platforms
*(deployment, administration, troubleshooting, usage)*
- PostgreSQL: **Expert**
- Microsoft SQL Server: **Expert**
- Oracle Database: **Proficient**

## DevOps & Infrastructure
- Docker: **Expert**
- Azure DevOps Pipelines: **Expert**
- Kubernetes & Azure AKS: **Advanced**
- Azure Container Registry: **Advanced**
- Infrastructure as Code — Bicep: **Advanced**
- .NET Aspire: **Advanced**
- Reverse proxies & load balancers (NGINX, HAProxy): **Advanced**
- Certificate management (PKI, mTLS, ACME): **Advanced**
- GitOps — Flux, Argo CD: **Proficient**

## Observability
- OpenTelemetry: **Expert**
- Grafana Stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir / Prometheus): **Expert**

## Operating Systems & Scripting
- Linux — deployment, administration, troubleshooting, daily use: **Advanced**
- PowerShell: **Expert**
- Bash: **Advanced**
- Perl: **Advanced**

## AI Engineering
- LLM-assisted development, agents, skills, MCP (Model Context Protocol): **Advanced**

## Methodologies & Practices
- Agile / Scrum / Kanban: **Expert**
- Software Development Lifecycle: **Advanced**
- ITIL: **Proficient**

## Tooling
- Git: **Expert**
- Azure Boards: **Expert**

## Languages
- French: Native
- English: Fluent (professional)

## Leadership & Delivery
- Technical leadership: **Expert**
- Mentoring developers & growing technical capability: **Expert**
- Code review practices: **Expert**
- Stakeholder management: **Expert**
- Cross-team technical alignment & consensus building: **Expert**
- Translating business requirements into technical solutions: **Expert**
- Owning technical decisions & trade-off communication: **Expert**
- Risk identification & mitigation planning: **Expert**
- Vendor evaluation: **Expert**
- Technical writing & documentation: **Expert**
- Presenting to non-technical audiences: **Expert**
- Strong written and verbal communication in French and English