Benjamin Gandon
Site Reliability Engineer at Gstack
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolBenjamin Gandon is a Site Reliability Engineer and founder with 11+ years building and operating large-scale cloud-native platforms for enterprises across Europe and the US. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, BOSH and CI/CD (Concourse, GitLab/GitHub Actions) with practical SRE practices—having contributed to well-known open-source projects like Cloud Foundry BOSH and UAA to harden shutdown and OAuth flows. As CEO of Gstack he has advised and trained major accounts (Carrefour, Orange, Renault, Thales, SAP, Michelin) on platform architecture, migration and runbooks, and today focuses on IaaS/PaaS delivery including ClusterAPI, KubeVirt and Cilium. Comfortable both leading teams and diving into backend/DevOps code, he pairs a background in information security and audit with a craftsman’s approach to reliable, automatable infrastructure. An unusual strength is his blend of product-facing consulting experience and low-level operational fixes in critical open-source tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Civil des Mines MS Engineering, Ingénieur Civil des Mines MS Engineering at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de NancyIngénieur de spécialité Informatique et Automatique MS+ IT Automatics Computer Science, Ingénieur de spécialité Informatique et Automatique MS+ IT Automatics Computer Science at ISIA - Ecole des Mines de ParisLycée Pothier
French, English, German, Chinese
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Github Skills (23)
bosh10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
testing10
openid-connect10
oid10
bash10
java10
javas10
bpmn10
spring-boot10
devops10
oauth10
cloud-foundry9
apidoc9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 24 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improving the BOSH project's operational aspects. They implemented a drain script for all Postgres jobs, ensuring consistent shutdown procedures. The user also addressed integration test output by suppressing Git hints and updated the project to use BPM-native features for customizing Postgres shutdown signals, which removed related repair code. Additionally, the user made code changes related to blobstore configuration, including making agent credentials optional.
foundryboshpcfchainengineering
cloudfoundry/uaa
Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on implementing and enhancing OAuth 2.0 and OIDC authentication providers for the UAA server. Their contributions included adding support for a Github OAuth 2.0 provider, sharing common properties between OIDC and OAuth2 configurations, and utilizing user info URLs for fetching user attributes. Additionally, the user refactored and improved existing code, made adjustments to unit tests, and documented the `userInfoUrl` property. These changes suggest a focus on expanding the authentication capabilities and refining the existing implementation.
openid-connectuaaoidcaccountauthentication
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