Baudouin Raoult is currently Principal Software Architect. He joined the ECMWF in 1989. Since then, he has been responsible for the architecture and the development of ECMWF meteorological archive system, a multi-petabyte repository of meteorological data. He has also led several key ECMWF software developments, including the implementation of the Copernicus Climate Data Store, a cloud-based distributed climate data repository that also provides users with Python based analytics tools.