Adrien Gentil
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrien Gentil is a Principal Software Engineer based in Montpellier with a decade of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling. Currently at Red Hat, he progressed from senior engineer to principal while contributing to high-impact OpenShift release and assisted-service projects that improve Zero Touch Provisioning, disk/image publishing, and operator reliability. Skilled in C++ and DevOps automation, he has a practical focus on making complex bare-metal and cloud workflows repeatable and resilient. His background spans multinational engineering roles across Amadeus, Criteo, and Adevinta, giving him broad experience in large-scale production environments. Notably, he has hands-on contributions to OpenShift’s release tooling and CI automation—work that directly reduces friction in large open-source platform releases.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Télécoms réseaux et informatique, Télécoms réseaux et informatique at IMT AtlantiqueProgramme court en échange Informatique, Programme court en échange Informatique at Polytechnique MontréalDUT Réseaux et Télécommunications Télécoms réseaux et informatique, DUT Réseaux et Télécommunications Télécoms réseaux et informatique at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/assisted-service
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:449 reviews, 20 commits, 159 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily contributed to the repository's infrastructure and automation aspects. Their work includes implementing code coverage reporting using codecov.io, removing obsolete API endpoints and adjusting tests, and creating a script to ensure compatibility with Python 3.6. Furthermore, they automated the process of waiting for dependencies in the operator deployment and improved the reliability of the `setup_lso.sh` script by adding a retry mechanism. They also fixed an issue with attaching disks in the ZTP jobs.
openshift/release
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:369 reviews, 88 commits, 215 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Adrien primarily contributed to the release tooling and CI/CD pipelines for OpenShift. Their work involved automating and optimizing various aspects of the build and testing process. This included modifying scripts for bare metal setup, gathering metadata from Equinix machines, and integrating new features for ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning) workflows. They also addressed issues related to disk space and image publishing, indicating a focus on infrastructure and deployment efficiency.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
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