Albin Kerouanton
Senior Software Engineer & OSS Maintainer at Docker, Inc
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolAlbin Kerouanton is a Senior Software Engineer and long-time open-source maintainer with 14 years building cloud-native and backend systems from Nantes, France. He currently works on Docker's networking stack (libnetwork) and has pushed practical features like Ulimits and improved IPv6 and cross-platform networking, plus eBPF-based host networking for Docker Desktop. His background spans hands-on DevOps and backend work—designing HA systems, running Swarm/Kubernetes clusters, and improving developer tooling—gained both as a consultant and at KNP Labs. An active contributor to flagship projects such as moby/moby and docker/cli, he blends deep protocol-level networking knowledge with pragmatic engineering (test fixes, vendor updates, CLI ergonomics). Notably, he bridges languages and ecosystems, contributing to PHP libraries (KnpSnappy, Gaufrette) as well as core container tooling, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level and application-level expertise.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
Github Skills (29)
docker10
apidoc10
symfony-bundle10
testing10
service-management10
command-line-interface10
ftp10
containerization10
dockers10
phpunit10
php10
go10
api10
image-generation10
symfony10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
KnpLabs/snappy
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Wrapper for wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 55 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Albin primarily contributed to the back-end logic and testing of the PHP library. Their work included refactoring code and adding new options within the Image generator. They also introduced logging capabilities for debugging purposes and implemented a tearDown step for PDF tests, ensuring temporary files and directories are properly cleaned up after tests. They integrated improvements for error handling and more detailed output.
thumbnailpdfwkhtmltoimagehtml-pagehtml-to-image
KnpLabs/Gaufrette
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
PHP library that provides a filesystem abstraction layer − will be a feast for your files!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 130 commits, 162 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Albin primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `knplabs/gaufrette` library, a PHP filesystem abstraction layer. Their work included implementing functional test cases for file operations like copying using streams, and refactoring code to improve directory handling within the StreamWrapper component. They also improved the FTP adapter by addressing path handling and ensuring correct directory creation.
flysystemgaufrettephpfilesystemabstraction-layer
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