Pierre Souchay started in development and software architecture. He founded a company of audio/video encoders before joining a public cloud company as the main software architect. He is now working on building new architecture for infrastructure and leading a team responsible for Consul at Criteo, a large Consul user with more than 250k services on 35k nodes. Pierre is also the author of consul-templaterb, a high-performance templating program similar to consul-template, and is a maintainer of diplomat, a ruby gem to interact with Consul in Ruby. Pierre and his team are also significant contributors to Consul, working hard to improve its performance and scalability.