Maxence Leroux
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Software Engineer — Freelance (Maxadev)
Reims, France
Software engineer, CESI graduate (2025), freelancing through Maxadev. Specialized in generative AI, micro-services architecture and DevOps (Kubernetes, CI/CD). Currently AI & DevOps LeadDev engineer at ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions.
AI & DevOps LeadDev engineer — freelance (since Sept. 2025)
Lead for application architecture, GenAI and industrialization of the Quotes Automation platform: conversational AI agents, MCP orchestration, Kubernetes AKS, CI/CD, observability
Master's-level apprenticeship then fixed-term contract — development & application architecture (Jul. 2024 – Sept. 2025)
Quotes Automation: AI-driven SAP quote automation — Docker micro-services, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Solr, Azure OpenAI, multi-LLM load balancer, ELK stack
Sole trader (auto-entrepreneur) — software engineer (since Aug. 2025)
Software consulting and development — maxadev.fr
Fourth-year engineering internship — web development, AI & industrial process optimization (Sept. 2023 – Feb. 2024)
Computer vision (YOLOv8, OpenCV), AI-based quality monitoring, Power BI, internal platforms (Portal GD, eKaizen)
Third-year internship then fixed-term contract — software developer (Jan. – Jul. 2023)
INSi interoperability (Carte Vitale / CPS), medical database migration, encryption of sensitive data (ISO 27001), WPF modernization — C#, .NET, SQL, LINQ
Second-year internship & fixed-term contract — IT department / DSIO (2021 – 2022)
Centreon network monitoring, Moodle e-learning platform on Docker, deployment and renewal of the IT hardware fleet
Logistics operative — fixed-term contract (summer 2020), order picking and flow management
CESI — Reims (51)
Lycée Paul Claudel — Laon (02)
Benoit Blee, Abdallah Didi, Vincent Leclercq, Maxence Leroux, Ilyass Abouelaziz
Conference paper — CONFERE 2024, Porto, Portugal (2024) · CESI École d’ingénieurs — LINEACT laboratory
An authentication system that verifies where a piece of digital content comes from and tells AI-generated content apart from human-created content, together with a proof of concept and an analysis of the scalability, adaptability and accuracy challenges involved.
Contribution: Proof of concept of the certification system (reference [6] in the paper) — GitHub repository
HAL : hal-05587060 · Licence Ouverte ETALAB
Quote request automation platform at ArcelorMittal Distribution Solutions: a customer sends a request by e-mail, a chain of micro-services processes it end to end and the quote is created in SAP — with no manual re-entry.
Conversational sales cockpit built on the Quotes Automation foundation: where the pipeline handles requests received by e-mail end to end, Octopus makes those same business services drivable through conversation, in self-service.
Self-hosted multi-channel CRM I designed to run my freelance prospecting: contacts, exchanges and follow-ups centralized on my own server, an LLM that sorts incoming e-mails and an MCP server that makes the tool drivable by an AI agent (private repository).
The site you are using right now: an interactive CV that recreates macOS in the browser.
The showcase site and technical blog of Maxadev, my freelance brand: services, in-depth articles and a direct way to get in touch. It is also the site displayed inside the Safari app of this resume.
Personal project maintained on an Unraid server to experiment, host my own data and run services without systematically depending on third-party cloud platforms.
Personal project run alongside my work at ArcelorMittal: deploying a fully isolated multi-node Kubernetes environment on my Unraid homelab.
Proof of concept built for my research work at CESI: "Local large language models for data privacy in personal and professional applications".
Computer vision work around YOLO: training models on custom datasets, then running inference on images and videos.
Personal web application that queries the Freebox API to monitor the connection and the home network from a single interface.
Medical software development (2023).
CESI project run from 2023 to 2025 around accessibility in video games and disability awareness.
CESI project 2024–2025: designing, deploying then cross-auditing a corporate information system in a lab environment.
CESI project 2024, carried out as a team to analyze and predict employee attrition at a pharmaceutical company.
CESI project 2023 carried out as a team: a desktop application for full or differential backups for the company ProSoft.
CESI project 2021–2022: prototype of a weather station meant to equip ocean-monitoring vessels.
.NET, WPF, WCF, REST API, ORM / LINQ
AI / Machine Learning, Data Analysis, OpenCV, Scripting
React, Next.js, Vue.js, Angular, Node.js, Express
App Development, Arduino / Embedded
SQL Server, Database Design, Optimization, Migration
Symfony
Web Design, Responsive Layouts, Tailwind
Azure OpenAI, Claude, AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi-LLM load balancing
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Helm, Kustomize, Scalability
Containerization, Microservices, Docker Compose
GitLab CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Regression testing
RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Solr, Elasticsearch
ELK stack, Kibana, Monitoring & alerting, Centreon
Ubuntu Server, Debian, Shell Scripting, Active Directory
YOLOv8, OpenCV, Label Studio, OCR
Version Control, Collaboration
Micro-services, Messaging, Resilience, Fault tolerance
Encryption of sensitive data, ISO 27001, CNIL / GDPR
LAN/WAN, Cisco Devices, CCNAv7
Data Analysis, ETL Processes, Power BI
Unraid homelab, Docker & Kubernetes on VMs, Nextcloud, Local Ollama, Reverse proxy & WireGuard, Monitoring & backups
Agile methodology, Technical leadership