Summary
Emile Heitor is a seasoned tech lead and cloud architect with 13 years of professional experience and a decades-long commitment to Free & Open Source Software dating back to 1996. He currently leads on-premise AI/ML infrastructure at BNP Paribas, operating and evolving bare-metal Kubernetes GPU clusters, automated container base images, and high-performance networking like InfiniBand for production ML workloads. He brings deep systems expertise across NetBSD, BSD UNIX internals, GNU/Linux, C, Go, Python and shell, and has a track record building private clouds, large-scale hosting platforms, and DevOps teams from the ground up. A longtime NetBSD contributor and pkgsrc maintainer who also created pkgin and worked on PVH boot improvements, he blends low-level OS work with modern platform engineering. Based in Valencia, Spain, he balances rigorous engineering leadership with creative pursuits—DJing, composing and streaming—reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BTS Industrial Computer Science, BTS Industrial Computer Science at UTEC Industrie
Baccalauréat E Series (Technological), Baccalauréat E Series (Technological) at Lycée Jean-Baptiste Say
French, English, Spanish