Charly Molter
Software Engineering Manager at Kong Inc.
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolCharly Molter is a Software Engineering Manager based in Paris with 15 years of experience designing and operating distributed systems and service meshes. He leads the remote engineering team behind Kuma and Kong Mesh at Kong Inc., contributing hands-on to the CNCF-backed Kuma project by fixing core DNS and proxy template issues. Previously he built and ran Kafka-as-a-service teams at Apple, guiding migrations from homegrown queuing to production Kafka and speaking at Kafka Summit. Comfortable across cloud infrastructure, backend systems and open source, he pairs managerial leadership with deep debugging and protocol-level expertise. A seasoned traveler and early open-source contributor, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for making complex distributed systems operable.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Scientific, Très Bien, Baccalauréat, Scientific, Très Bien at Lycée Marc ChagallDUT, Computer Science, DUT, Computer Science at Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneEnsimag - Engineer's degree (Masters of science), Computer Science, Ensimag - Engineer's degree (Masters of science), Computer Science at Institut polytechnique de GrenobleNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, French
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Github Skills (21)
service-mesh10
javascript10
lists10
redis10
data-structure10
go10
dns10
mocking10
data-structures10
nodejs10
unit-testing9
kubernetes9
proxy9
kubernetes-pods9
html6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kumahq/kuma
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 2587 reviews, 258 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Charly primarily contributed to the Kuma service mesh project by fixing bugs, implementing new features, and improving existing code. Contributions include resolving DNS issues related to service names, implementing features to manage proxy templates, and ensuring proper validation of configurations. The user also worked on exposing possibilities to add ProxyTemplates publicly.
kumacontourconnectivityvmssandbox
faeldt/redis-mock
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Node.js redis client mock
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Charly primarily focused on implementing and extending list-related functionalities within the Node.js Redis mock. They added commands such as `llen`, `lpush`, `lpop`, `rpush`, `rpop`, `lindex`, `lset`, `lpushx`, and `rpushx`. Furthermore, they incorporated event handling within the `Item` class to track additions and removals from the list. They also made adjustments to ensure compatibility with the node-redis library, particularly regarding argument handling for `lpush` and `rpush`.
redisredis-clientnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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