Vincent Behar
Software Engineer with 17+ years of experience. I’m a developer, and I love it ;-) Open-source contributor/maintainer, occasional speaker/blogger. My buzzwords of the moment are Go, Kubernetes, Continuous Delivery, Observability, GenAI, …
Skills
- French (native)
- English (fluent)
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery
- Gitops
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Dagger
- Postgres
- Git
- Google Cloud Platform
Creations
The main open-source projects I created. See also the list of my “source” repositories on GitHub for more.
Octopilot
In 2020, I created Octopilot: a CLI tool designed to help you automate your Gitops workflow, by automatically creating and merging GitHub Pull Requests to update specific content in Git repositories.
Jenkins X Projects
Since 2020, I started contributing more to Jenkins X by creating new components, mainly for observability - but also web UIs.
All creations
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Open Source Contributions
My main contributions to existing open-source projects. See also my GitHub account for more.
Jenkins X
I made plenty of contributions to Jenkins X and all its components, including bug reports, bug fixes, new features, and promotion through blog posts and talks.
Helm Ecosystem
I contributed to various open-source projects in the Helm ecosystem: Helmfile, Helm charts, Helm plugins.
All open source contributions
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Publications
Talks I gave at conferences/meetups, interviews, or blog posts I wrote:
Conference Talk - Story of Our Transition to a Custom Kubernetes Operator for an API Gateway
Conference Talk - Comment OpenTelemetry peut transformer votre monitoring en unifiant vos logs/metrics/traces
Conference Talk - How Jenkins X is Integrating Observability from the Inside, and the Benefits for its Users
All publications
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Experience
Senior Software Enginner
Work on an Internal Developer Platform. Rewrite the Gateway Control Plane as a Kubernetes Operator. Build a managed Kubernetes offering for Game Servers based on Talos Linux. Mentoring, public speaking.
Principal Engineer / Software Architect
Setup a new CI/CD platform on Kubernetes using Jenkins X, and rewrite the applications pipelines. Drive the migration of the ad-tech platform to Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform. Build custom tooling and ensure we follow best practices. Both internal and external communication on our practices: blog posts, meetups & conferences talks.
Go Developer
Development of an ad-tech platform, and mainly the SSP (Supply-Side Platform) REST API, in a distributed team - New York and Paris. Setup of the continuous integration.
Go Developer
Setup of an OpenShift cluster. Identified as the technical referent for OpenShift (training and support of other developers). Development of tools / tests around the OpenShift API. Contributions to the OpenShift Origin project.
Scala Developer
Development of an internal CMS based on the « COPE » (Create Once Publish Everywhere) concept. Setup of the continuous integration, functional and load tests.
Java Developer
Development of projects around our web indexed pages, and responsible for the applicative deployments and monitoring of the exalead.com search engine (16 billion of web pages). Transition from internal tools to open-source ones: responsible for the setup and administration of an Hadoop cluster, and development of MapReduce/Cascading jobs.
Java/Web Developer
Development of the Web portals for the radio stations RTL, RTL2, FUN RADIO, and some other thematic websites and back-office (CMS, B2B, …). Setup of the build process, continuous integration, and automatic deployment (devops).
Java/Swing Developer
Development of the new radio broadcast system (servers, clients on touch screens) in a team of 6 developers. Setup of the build process and continuous integration.
Java/Web Developer
Developing internal Web applications (events management, trainees management) and a B2B website to sell advertising spots for the radio stations.