Denis Ollier
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Toulouse, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Ollier is a Principal Software Quality Engineer with 7 years of focused experience in cloud-native virtualization and CI for Kubernetes/OpenShift, currently maintaining KubeVirt CI at Red Hat. He brings deep Linux and systems expertise (RHCE-certified) spanning automation, packaging, security hardening, and test automation, with a strong track record in both upstream (KubeVirt) and downstream (OpenShift Virtualization) projects. Denis has improved test infrastructure and reliability for kubevirt/kubevirt, making tests more robust and resource-safe—work that directly benefits large-scale virtualization on Kubernetes. His background includes avionics-grade systems and secure Linux platforms for sensitive clients, reflecting an uncommon blend of rigorous compliance experience and open-source engineering. Based in Toulouse, he combines hands-on scripting, Ansible-driven deployments, and CI orchestration to deliver observable, production-ready virtualization workflows.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science engineering degree Software Development Process, Computer science engineering degree Software Development Process at INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
French, English
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
virtualization9
libvirt8
yaml8
bash7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Denis primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure for the Kubevirt project. They modified existing tests, updated configurations, and improved the overall test suite. The user refactored the tests to use configuration files, updated the codebase to use more generic storage class names, and also improved the test framework to ensure resources are cleaned up properly after each test run. Additionally, they updated and refactored existing tests to make the tests more robust and reliable.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
dollierp/tilda
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
Contributions:9 pushes, 18 branches in 5 years 11 months
unixlinuxdrop-downgtkgtk4
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