Emilien Macchi
Senior Principal Software Engineer (Staff Engineer) at Red Hat
Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEmilien Macchi is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud infrastructure and platform tooling, now focused on engineering the core components of Red Hat's AI portfolio and integrating advanced hardware accelerators for enterprise ML workloads. He rose through Red Hat from intern to staff engineer and has deep expertise in OpenStack, OpenShift, CI/CD and automation, evidenced by sustained contributions to prominent projects like Tempest, Gophercloud, Packstack and the OpenShift installer. A longtime OpenStack leader—former Chair of the Technical Committee and multiple project lead—he combines technical depth in Python, Go and DevOps with community governance and release stewardship. His work often bridges testing, quota and networking concerns (floating IPs, trunk quotas, storage/volume validations) to make complex distributed systems reliably deployable. Based in Quebec, he brings practical operational experience from earlier roles in network/system administration and field deployments, which informs his pragmatic approach to platform reliability. Notably, his contributions include improving CI reliability and enabling disconnected bootstrap workflows, reflecting a focus on real-world deployment constraints.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTS Informatique de Gestion - Option Administration de Réseaux locaux d'entreprise, BTS Informatique de Gestion - Option Administration de Réseaux locaux d'entreprise at CNEDMaster's degree Systems Engineering, Master's degree Systems Engineering at Ynov InformatiqueVocational Bachelor System & Network engineering, Vocational Bachelor System & Network engineering at Université Côte d'Azur
French, English
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Github Skills (51)
network-configuration10
kubernetes10
puppeteer10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
validations10
puppet10
testing10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
resource-management10
validation10
networking10
dockers10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Feb 2015 - Oct 2021
Heat templates for deploying OpenStack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:772 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Emilien's contributions focused on configuring and integrating various OpenStack services using Puppet manifests. They implemented and refactored Puppet code to deploy and manage services like Swift, Neutron, Glance, and Keystone, along with integrating HAProxy for load balancing. The changes included ordering of services, database schema synchronization, and overall improvements to the deployment process, specifically focusing on the controller nodes. Furthermore, the user was also involved in automation tasks such as updating the CI configuration files.
deployingheatopenshiftopenstack
gophercloud/gophercloud
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Gophercloud: an OpenStack SDK for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 338 reviews, 78 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emilien primarily contributed to the OpenStack SDK for Go, specifically focusing on enhancing the Networking v2 API. They added functionality to retrieve detailed quota information, including support for the 'trunk' extension. The user also refactored code to support quota details and incorporated updates to testing fixtures and requests. Additionally, the user updated the API documentation and code references to improve maintainability and usability of the SDK.
golanggophercloudsdkopenstackopenstack-sdk
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