Damien Degois
Directeur Des Opérations Nuageuses - Head Of SRE
Vannes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Degois is a senior cloud operations and SRE leader with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly automated infrastructures from bare metal to platform services. Based in Vannes, Brittany, he has led platform and production teams at e-commerce and hosting companies, driving replatforming, microservice transitions, and deterministic infrastructure designs that balance legacy constraints with modern automation. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps engineering—contributing fixes and features to notable open-source projects like oauth2-proxy and SaltStack—with strategic responsibility for budgets, architecture and multi-datacenter operations. Known for relentless automation and pragmatic problem-solving, he also improves developer experience by cleaning build/deployment scripts and localization in community projects.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Regular S baccalauréat with industrial technology, High School Regular S baccalauréat with industrial technology at Benjamin Franklin, OrléansEngineering, Engineering at Université d'Orléans
French, English
Github Skills (33)
keycloak10
c-language10
postgresql10
reverse-proxy10
python10
scripting10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
user-authentication10
authentication10
elasticsearchquery10
script10
go10
saltstack10
aws-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Dec 2016 - Sep 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 34 comments in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the `saltstack/salt` repository, particularly related to the Elasticsearch and apt package management modules. Their contributions involved resolving issues with index templates, handling compatibility across different Elasticsearch versions, and fixing bugs related to the `pkgrepo.managed` state with apt and signed-by options. Furthermore, the user added tests and implemented code format changes to ensure code quality and maintainability. Their work mainly revolves around the backend logic and state management functionalities provided by SaltStack.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 3 commits, 6 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Damien contributed to the `oauth2-proxy` project by implementing and enhancing authentication providers, including Keycloak, and improving the handling of user sessions. They addressed race conditions in the htpasswd user list and fixed an issue related to uninitialized user claims across multiple providers. Furthermore, the user added support for using a Unix socket as an upstream in the proxy and introduced a session-aware logout with backend logout URL functionality, improving the overall functionality and security of the proxy.
proxyreverse-proxyidentityazureoauth2
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