Aurélien Bombo
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAurélien Bombo is a cloud-native software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience and 5+ years focused on confidential containers, Kubernetes storage, and CI/CD automation. Currently a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, he designed trusted storage for confidential pods, built extensible end-to-end performance testing for container workloads, and helped bring Kata Containers contributions into Azure (earning an architecture committee seat). His open-source work spans notable projects like requests and PRAW—where he improved pickling and request hooks—and significant CI/CD and automation contributions to Kata Containers’ GitHub Actions. Comfortable across systems, DevOps and backend code, he combines deep performance tuning with pragmatic automation and a knack for making complex infrastructure reliably testable. Based in Chicago, he’s equally at home presenting at conferences and refactoring code to improve maintainability and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English
Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
python10
testing10
prawn10
http10
bash10
networking10
cicd10
pickle10
automation10
php10
api10
python-requests10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:319 reviews, 108 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Aurélien primarily focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and automating build and test processes for Kata Containers, a project focused on lightweight VMs and containerization. Their contributions included creating and modifying GitHub Actions workflows to integrate Mariner host support for Kubernetes tests, extracting commands to separate script files for reliable testing of workflow changes, and streamlining resource cleanup. They also worked on build processes for various guest images and tools, including the CSI driver, by improving caching, adding build targets, and managing environment variables.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
praw-dev/praw
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aurélien primarily focused on improving the PRAW library's pickling functionality and addressing related issues. Their contributions include fixing bugs that prevented the unpickling of `Comment` objects and optimizing pickling performance. Additionally, they modified the code to make /u/ mentions and inbox replies available to all users. Furthermore, the user refactored the code, re-ordering RedditContentObject's methods.
apipythonprawreddit-apiapi-wrapper
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