About
I’m Baptiste Collard, a Solutions Architect. I help teams design and run API gateways, service meshes and identity setups, mostly through hands-on proofs of concept with customers.
I work at Kong as a Senior Staff Solutions Architect on Kong Gateway, AI Gateway and Kong Mesh. Before that I was a Field Engineer at Solo.io (Istio, Gloo), an IT Architect at Airbus building API and Kubernetes platforms, and a Middleware Architect and Team Lead at Auchan e-Commerce.
What you’ll find here
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Posts: deep dives and reference pages from my own labs.
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Talks: conference talks, webinars and articles published elsewhere.
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Side projects: the tools I build and maintain.
Certifications
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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Istio Certified Associate (ICA)
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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect