Bernard Grymonpon
Co-Founder at Krane Labs
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolBernard Grymonpon is a hands-on technology leader and co-founder with over a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure automated systems. He has led engineering and infrastructure teams at scale—most recently as VP of Engineering at Oqton and now co-founding Krane Labs—combining no-nonsense management with a metrics-driven approach to optimize flows and team performance. Deeply experienced in Linux/Unix administration, DevOps practices and server automation, he pairs strategic oversight with day-to-day technical contributions. Bernard is an active open-source contributor focused on reliable backups and cloud cost observability, having extended rclone-backed backup flows and improved logging and maintainability in projects like mgob and Opencost. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he brings a blend of entrepreneurial grit, operational rigor and a penchant for turning messy production problems into measurable improvements. An uncommon strength is his continuity from hands-on sysadmin work to executive leadership, enabling pragmatic decisions grounded in real operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Ghent UniversityMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Informatics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Informatics at Hogeschool Gent
French, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
configuration-management10
cost-optimization10
backup10
rclone10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
logging10
co10
cloud-storage9
prometheus9
data-storage9
file-storage9
sftp9
docker8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stefanprodan/mgob
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
MongoDB dockerized backup agent. Runs schedule backups with retention, S3 & SFTP upload, notifications, instrumentation with Prometheus and more.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bernard focused on adding and improving the integration with rclone for backup uploads to various storage services like S3 and Azure. They implemented rclone functionality, including adding support for configuration file paths and section names. They also addressed bugs related to rclone uploads and enhanced the application with a host configuration option. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding backup capabilities and improving the deployment configuration.
schedule-backupsschedule-runsnotificationsretentionprometheus
opencost/opencost
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Bernard primarily contributed to the `opencost/opencost` repository by making changes to the `pkg/costmodel/metrics.go` file. Their commits focused on improving logging by cleaning up existing log statements and adding more descriptive log messages. Further contributions included modifying the `pkg/costmodel/costmodel.go` and `pkg/kubecost/asset.go` files to address inconsistencies or make comment corrections. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the reliability, maintainability, and overall clarity of the code base.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
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