Summary
Denis Jannot is a seasoned product and field engineering leader with 11 years in cloud-native and application networking domains, now serving as VP of Product Excellence at Solo.io. He combines deep hands-on experience with Envoy, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies with a practical focus on reliability, scalability and AI-powered product capabilities. Having progressed from systems engineering roles at Dell EMC to senior technical leadership across EMEA, Denis is comfortable bridging customer-facing sales engineering and internal product quality teams. An active open-source participant, he regularly shares learnings with the CNCF community and brings a field-proven perspective to product strategy and execution. Based in Paris, he balances technical rigor with an outdoors-oriented mindset—surfing, snowboarding and wakeboarding—that informs his collaborative, results-driven leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BAC Scientifique Général, BAC Scientifique Général at Lycée polyvalent de St Valery en Caux
DUT Génie des réseaux et télécommunications, DUT Génie des réseaux et télécommunications at IUT de Rouen
French, English