Dimitri Savineau
Principal Software Engineer Ansible at Red Hat
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDimitri Savineau is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating highly available open source platforms, specializing in Ansible-driven automation, OpenStack and Ceph. A long-time Debian enthusiast, he combines deep systems and LVM knowledge with practical container expertise—having contributed significant stability and Python 3 compatibility fixes to high-profile Ceph projects like ceph-ansible and ceph-container. He excels at turning complex deployment and upgrade challenges into repeatable automation, and has driven Distributed-CI and TripleO integrations for production-grade OpenStack workflows. Based in Montreal, he brings a practitioner’s pragmatism to upstream maintenance and customer-facing debugging, often surfacing non-obvious fixes such as container systemd/service adjustments and tcmalloc tuning that improve reliability at scale.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master en informatique ISRI (Ingénierie des Systèmes et Réseaux Informatique), Master en informatique ISRI (Ingénierie des Systèmes et Réseaux Informatique) at Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens)
French, English
Github Skills (29)
container10
docker10
python10
scripting10
lvm10
bash10
distributed-systems10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
ansible10
block-storage10
ceph10
sh10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph-container
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Docker files and images to run Ceph in containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:62 releases, 56 reviews, 449 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dimitri primarily focused on improving the containerization and deployment aspects of the Ceph project. They addressed issues related to Python version compatibility within the containerized environment, modifying scripts to support Python 3. Moreover, the user migrated from ceph-disk to ceph-volume for OSD management and updated build scripts to enhance the build process. The contributions also included fixes and enhancements for the demo environment, including setting up the REST API and addressing configuration issues.
containersdocker-imagedocker-filesdockerceph
ceph/ceph-ansible
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Ansible playbooks to deploy Ceph, the distributed filesystem.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:45 releases, 244 reviews, 1222 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dimitri primarily contributed to the Ceph Ansible project by improving the containerized deployment. The contributions involved adding and adjusting systemd service configurations for containers (like those used by radosgw, nfs, and others), fixing the container restart script, and setting environment variables within the containers. They also addressed issues like the exclusion of client nodes for node-exporter and setting default tcmalloc value, which improved stability and performance.
pythonvagrantdevopsansibleceph
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