Balthazar Rouberol
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolBalthazar Rouberol is a French engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on site and data reliability at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has led release and data reliability teams at Datadog, managed Kafka clusters processing trillions of payloads, and shipped production-grade DevOps platforms at OVH. Comfortable across backend, SRE and DevOps domains, he contributes to notable open-source projects like Apache Airflow and authored a French Docker wrapper (marcel), reflecting his taste for practical developer ergonomics. He explicitly avoids cryptocurrency and advertising work, prefers engineering craftsmanship, and brings a strong academic foundation in computational biology and maths to system design and reliability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computational Biology, Engineer's degree Computational Biology at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universidad de la República
python, Spanish, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
apache-airflow10
docker10
data-pipelines10
python10
kerberos10
command-line-interface10
workflow-engine10
celery10
beautifulsoup10
dockers10
command-line10
orchestration10
data-pipeline10
cli10
testing9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
brouberol/marcel
Jan 2016 - Jul 2021
Le docker français :whale: :fr:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 30 PRs, 71 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Balthazar primarily contributed to the development of `marcel`, a French wrapper for the Docker CLI. Their work included implementing new translations to map French commands to Docker equivalents, adding unit tests, and integrating a setup.py file to make `marcel` pip installable. Furthermore, the user added support for a `RecetteAMarcel` file, which allows custom Docker builds.
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apache/airflow
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Balthazar contributed to the Apache Airflow project by implementing Kerberos authentication improvements. Their work included enhancing the `get_user` method for Kerberos authentication, expanding and improving the Kerberos API documentation, and fixing typos related to Kerberos terminology. The user also focused on updating the spark-submit functionality to correctly resolve and use kerberos principals, as well as rendering pod specs for kubernetes using the pod_template_file override.
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