Eric Briand
Principal SRE at Amadeus
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Briand is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently improving systems at Amadeus. A Google Cloud Developer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Security Specialist, he blends hands-on engineering with training and public speaking to raise team capabilities across CI/CD, Kubernetes and cloud migrations. His background spans leadership and consulting roles—CTO and lead Dev positions at Zenika—where he guided agency growth, wrote trainings, and led technical presales. An active open-source contributor, he has applied practical GCP-focused fixes to projects like linuxkit, showing attention to platform integration and robust error handling. Based in Nantes, he pairs deep distributed-systems education with a knack for turning complex operational challenges into teachable, repeatable practices.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG MIAS Mathématiques Informatique Physique, DEUG MIAS Mathématiques Informatique Physique at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Diplome SUPINFO Informatique, Diplome SUPINFO Informatique at SUPINFOMaster in High Speed Networks and Distributed Systems Informatique, Master in High Speed Networks and Distributed Systems Informatique at Oxford Brookes University
Japanese, English, French
Github Skills (9)
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
gcp10
linux9
container9
devtools8
devops8
aws7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
linuxkit/linuxkit
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancements related to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) within the Linuxkit project. They addressed issues in the `push_aws.go` file related to file size and content type. Furthermore, the user implemented error handling and validation checks for GCP client creation and project name specification within the `push_gcp.go` and `gcp.go` files. Additionally, they worked on adding logging for init image processing.
containerssecureoperating-systemsseccomplinux
frinyvonnick/electron-workshop
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 months
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