Adrian Duermael
Head Of Engineering at Blip
Burlingame, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdrian Duermael is a founder and Head of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack products, games, and developer tools from prototype to scale. Based in Burlingame, he led Pixowl to breakout mobile success and later founded Blip, a Lua-scriptable real-time multiplayer platform that amassed thousands of testers and 30,000+ user-published items before launch. He combines product design sensibilities with deep engineering chops—shipping Docker for Desktop work and contributing to Docker's documentation and backend infrastructure for projects like Dockercraft. Adrian has raised venture capital, built cross-platform game engines and backend systems, and runs engineering at Fundamental Research Labs, blending startup grit with operational leadership. He also has a creative side: self-publishing comics and running small ventures with proven crowdfunding successes. Practical, multidisciplinary, and fluent across game design, DevOps and product engineering, he excels at turning playful prototypes into robust platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia designer & director, Multimedia designer & director at GOBELINS ParisComputer Science, Computer Science at IUT Nancy-BraboisComputer science, Computer science at Université Paris CitéComputer Science, Computer Science at Université de MetzPolytech Nancy
English, French
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Github Skills (23)
markdown10
docker10
testing10
containerization10
dockers10
lua10
go10
markdown-it10
documentation10
apidoc9
ip9
tcp9
api9
html9
minecraft8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
docker-archive-public/docker.dockercraft
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Docker + Minecraft = Dockercraft
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 22 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 days
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to the back-end and infrastructure aspects of the Dockercraft project. Their work involved updating core files related to Cuberite webadmin and plugins, and integrating the Docker client. They also made changes to Go-based proxy code and the `docker.lua` script, indicating involvement in communication between the Cuberite server and the Docker daemon. Furthermore, the user focused on Docker client integration, including fixes and enhancements, suggesting responsibilities in container management and deployment automation.
dockerminecraft
docker/docs
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Source repo for Docker's Documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Test Automation Engineer
Technical Writer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 25 PRs, 102 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on improving the documentation and validating links within the Docker documentation repository. They added tests to check for absolute links to `docs.docker.com` and updated existing tests to accurately reflect changes. Additionally, they addressed issues with internal links, particularly in the `/apidocs/docker-cloud/includes` directory, ensuring that the documentation correctly references internal resources and fixes inconsistencies.
docker
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