Damien Ciabrini
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Mouans-Sartoux, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Ciabrini is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance systems across compilers, debuggers, language runtimes, kernels and large-scale distributed platforms. At Red Hat he focuses on High Availability in OpenStack and multi-master Galera replication for MySQL, bringing deep expertise in HA automation and containerized service orchestration. Previously he led teams and architecture at Amadeus, designing low-latency NoSQL stores, map-reduce batch platforms and shared-memory caching tuned with assembler-level optimizations. Obsessed with performance and optimization, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic DevOps practices like CI, Jenkins and Docker. An open-source contributor and retro hardware enthusiast based in Provence, he has hands-on experience improving OpenStack HA templates and rolling upgrade workflows. His PhD in Computer Science underpins a research-informed approach to solving production-scale reliability and performance challenges.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
French, English
Github Skills (12)
pacemaker10
bash10
docker10
openstack10
containerization10
dockers10
high-availability10
cicd9
ansible9
ansible-galaxy9
mysql8
python7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Mar 2016 - Apr 2022
Heat templates for deploying OpenStack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:225 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the automation and management of the OpenStack deployment process within the repository. Their work involved modifying scripts and configurations related to HA (High Availability) setups, including the coordination of resource restarts and shutdown procedures using Pacemaker. They addressed issues related to containerized services, ensuring proper configuration and restart mechanisms within the Docker environment. The user also focused on improving upgrade workflows and implementing features like rolling certificate updates.
deployingheatopenshiftopenstack
dciabrin/ngdevkit-toolchain
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
ngdevkit toolchain
Contributions:58 commits, 6 PRs, 102 pushes in 3 years 4 months
toolchain
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