Max Gautier

DevOps & Opensource Engineer
Expertises: Kubernetes, containers, CI, git, python, go, bash, Linux
Github
Codeberg
Languages : French, English

Work Experience

Since September 2023: Freelance Kubernetes Consultant and SRE

Maintenance and evolution of several mid-sized Kubernetes platform (~10-150 nodes) for French National Education. Main activities are:

Platform maintenance & debugging
Working as part of upstream projects to address internal needs
Helping applications developers to use Kubernetes features efficiently and build tools and integrations for them

Subjects: logging, alerting, unifying configuration, technological watch.

Techs: Kubernetes, Ansible, Prometheus, Filebeat.

June 2022 - August 2023: Software Engineer at Red Hat

Developing an Openshift operator for Custom (Jupypter) Notebook Images, part of Red Hat Openshift Data Science

Re-design of the integration with Openshift observability stack

Techs: Go, Openshift, Prometheus.

Working on Thoth Station:

Debugging and optimization of Python code
Improving CI process

Techs: Python, Prow, Tekton.

2019-2022: Cloud Consultant for Linkbynet (formerly ObjectifLibre)

Maintenance and evolution of several mid-sized Kubernetes platform (~10-70 nodes) (development and production) for French National Education.

Subjects: logging, autoscaling & optimization, unifying configuration, enabling applications developers on Kubernetes.

Main techs : Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, bash, Elastic (logs)

2018 (6 months): Intern at ObjectifLibre

Working on two internal tools related to trainings organization and expenses reports.
Implemented in particular a dematerialized training evaluation questionnaire (required by French law for training organisms).
Improving automation related to the training materials (building, spellchecking, etc).

Open-source

Active contributor

kubespray

Past and occasionnal contributions

glibc: UTF-7-IMAP support
Glib: xdg-terminal-exec support
foot (terminal emulator)
fuzzel (application launcher)
oauth2token
Cloudkitty

Education

2016-2019

42 (Paris)

Cursus based on projects and self-learning
Focus on autonomy, peer review and collaboration

mg@max.gautier.name
Based in France