LOCTO and board member at Takima

Loïc
Ortola

Embracing platforms, automation and AI to change the way we innovate.

Combining a cutting-edge technical vision with strategy and leadership, I am leading company-wide AI transformations at Takima and for its clients.

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What I do

Eight years leading the technical strategy of Takima, a leading IT consulting firm in France.

Platform engineering

Cloud-native platforms, GitOps and automation that let product teams ship on their own.

AI transformation

AI diagnostics, executive vision workshops and pilots, with reliable AI patterns: agents, RAG, durable execution, observability.

DevOps and performance

Delivery pipelines, load testing and high-availability architectures, from 100k requests per second maps to enterprise IT.

Tech leadership

Engineering management, learning paths, hiring and speaker programmes that keep teams in the top 10%.

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revenue since 2018

300+

engineers recruited since 2017

200+

talks and keynotes given

years of teaching experience

Latest talks

200+ talks and keynotes, rated in the top 5% at public conferences.

All talks

Devoxx France 202544 min

45 minutes to bring your app to its knees: the complete guide to load testing

With Mathilde Lorrain. Load testing is often the test you run too late. We share what teams we trained learned about threads, the JVM, databases, configuration and isolating bottlenecks, so you leave able to load test a complex system.

Devoxx France 2024

Platform engineering: the graduation of DevOps

Why platform engineering is where DevOps grows up. Part of the “How Kubernetes changed the world of Ops” session; the video starts at my part.

Devoxx France 2023

An end-to-end GitOps architecture from scratch

Built live with A. Moreau: GitLab, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS. The most viewed video of Devoxx France 2023, and now a reference implementation.