Cécile Robert-michon
Manager Of Technical Staff at Cohere
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCécile Robert-michon is a seasoned infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently directing Internal Infrastructure at Cohere in New York. She specializes in multi-cloud GPU superclusters, Kubernetes lifecycle management, and IoC-driven networking, combining hands-on engineering with hardware-software integration and TCO optimization. Previously a software engineering lead at Microsoft, she was a top contributor to Cluster API and AKS-related projects, earning recognition within the Kubernetes community for improving provisioning speed and resilience. Her open-source work shows deep expertise in CI/CD, Azure image builds, and fault-tolerant controller logic across prominent repos like kubernetes-sigs/image-builder and aks-engine. Cécile blends operational rigor—automating GPU scheduling, retries, and observability—with developer enablement, from Python wheel management to code sandboxes. She brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective that bridges cloud provider partnerships, hardware vendors, and ML teams to accelerate production AI workloads.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
French Baccalaureate OIB Scientific, French Baccalaureate OIB Scientific at Cité Scolaire Internationale de LyonHigh School, High School at Sanderson High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering at McGill University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (33)
azure-devops-server10
kubernetes10
docker10
golangci-lint10
apidoc10
bash10
kubeadm10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
api10
azure-devops10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 3491 reviews, 536 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Cécile's contributions focus on adding retries to the containerd download process within the control plane configuration. They also appear to be involved in the implementation of features related to v1alpha2 and v1alpha3. Specifically, they are modifying API files. Additionally, the user appears to have experience with building or modifying the Azure machine, as evidenced by changes to the azuremachine_reconciler.go file.
apicluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclek8s-provider-azuremicrosoft-azure
Azure/acs-engine
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
WE HAVE MOVED: Please join us at Azure/aks-engine!
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 214 commits, 429 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Cécile primarily focused on fixing bugs related to argument handling and validation within the `acs-engine`'s command-line tools, specifically for generate and deploy commands. They addressed errors related to incorrect argument counts and incorrect validation logic. The user also made changes to the Ubuntu image version used by the project. Their contributions also involved the addition and parallelization of bash scripts for performance measurement.
azure-aksazure-functionsaks-enginejoinazure
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