About

Valentin Derouet

Engineering student at ENSSAT (Université de Rennes 1), graduating 2026. Apprentice at Orange Business in Cesson-Sévigné, working on network architectures and CPE hardware integration in a lab of a dozen engineers.

Co-founder of Thingmill, a small engineering collective. Self-taught in electronics, PCB design and acoustics. Running my own Proxmox homelab.

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metrology mechanical engineering cisco/ekinops CPE eda/cad L1/L2/L3 networking devops acoustics 3D modelling vintage Hi-Fi

Experience

Intern - National Institute of Informatics (NII) (April 2026 - August 2026)
Tokyo, Japan

Apprentice network engineer - Orange Business (2023 - 2026)
Cesson-Sévigné, France

Apprentice sysadmin - SDIS 53 (2021 - 2023)
Mayenne Fire & Rescue Department

Co-founder - Thingmill (2018 - present)
Engineering collective


Education

M.Eng. Computer Science (apprenticeship) - ENSSAT (2023 - 2026)
Université de Rennes 1 - École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Lannion

BTS SIO SISR - Institut d’Informatique Appliquée (2021 - 2023)
Saint-Berthevin

Bac STI2D SIN - Lycée Alain (2017 - 2021)
Alençon


Skills

Domain Tools & technologies
3D modelling SolidWorks, Fusion 360, SketchUp
Acoustics Frequency response measurement, loudspeaker crossover design, ANC, amplifier design
Development Python, Java, C, Node.js
Devops Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker
Electronics Oscilloscope analysis, soldering, component-level repair, microcontroller programming (AVR, Arduino)
PCB design Autodesk Eagle, custom component libraries
Sysadmin AD, DNS, DHCP, MECM, Exchange, Proxmox, firewall (OPNsense…)
Telecom / WAN MPLS, Cisco IOS XE, Ekinops OneOSv6, L1/L2/L3 networking, Alcatel, Extreme, QoS, VoIP
Web HTML, CSS, Vue.js, Next.js, MariaDB, MySQL
Languages French (native), English (fluent)