Summary
Adrien Kohlbecker is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years’ experience specializing in infrastructure, CI/CD and large-scale containerized systems, currently working on GitLab.com's runner fleet. He previously architected and operated Datadog’s build-as-a-service platform—running 200 runners, processing a million builds per month, and owning SLOs, security hardening, multi-tenancy and on-call operations. A hands-on polyglot, he builds tooling and services in Go, Python, Ruby and Terraform, with deep operational knowledge of Docker and AWS. As a two-time technical founder he has practical product and routing algorithm experience from mobile and multimodal transport projects, and he mentors teams to reduce friction and make build pipelines more efficient. Based in Strasbourg, he blends engineering craftsmanship with operational discipline and a pragmatic focus on developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Engineering, Computer Science and entrepreneurship, MSc Engineering, Computer Science and entrepreneurship at Ecole centrale de Paris
Exchange semester, Computer Science and entrepreneurship, Exchange semester, Computer Science and entrepreneurship at Hanyang University
English, French