Christian Zwaard
Président at SlashOps
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolChristian Zwaard is a cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure specialist with six years of hands-on experience designing, automating and operating scalable systems for SaaS and platform teams. As Président of SlashOps he architects multi-cloud solutions (AWS, Scaleway), builds IaC with Terraform/kOps/Helm, and operationalizes GitOps and CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and cost-efficiency. He has deep operational experience running production Kubernetes clusters, building operators in Go, and migrating complex network topologies including BGP and Transit Gateway designs. Christian pairs platform engineering with strong observability and DR/backup practices (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager) and routinely delivers FinOps audits and team training. He contributes to open-source tooling around FluxCD and ingress/HAProxy ecosystems, bringing pragmatic improvements from field experience. Based in Lyon, he combines network-level expertise with cloud-native architecture to solve cross-domain infrastructure challenges.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Responsable en Ingénierie Systèmes et Réseaux IT, Bachelor Responsable en Ingénierie Systèmes et Réseaux IT at CESI École Supérieure de l’AlternanceMastère Systèmes Réseaux et Cloud Computing IT engineering, Mastère Systèmes Réseaux et Cloud Computing IT engineering at ESGI
French, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (67)
github10
package-management10
automation10
markdown10
azure-devops10
cli10
dependency-manager10
mdx10
gitlab10
bitbucket10
npm10
terraform9
aws-vpn9
cloudflare9
terraform-provider9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
christian-vdz/hassio-mqtt2prometheus-addon
Dec 2023 - Nov 2025
MQTT to Prometheus gateway - Home Assistant Community Add-on
Contributions:14 releases, 37 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 year 11 months
home-assistantmqttprometheus
christian-vdz/tech.bedrockstreaming.com
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
Bedrock Tech Blog
Contributions:56 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
bedrock
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