Erich Malibran is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, embedded and systems software, currently contributing at Nimble Gravity. He has deep expertise in Linux kernel and driver development, Yocto enablement, CI/CD and cloud platforms including OpenStack and Kubernetes, and has led teams as a technical lead and Product Owner at Intel. Erich’s work spans high-performance computing tooling, release engineering and automation—he helped stabilize and modernize the Kata Containers agent by refactoring for stable Rust and fixing CI/CD issues. Comfortable across low-level C and embedded stacks as well as Python-based product work, he combines hands-on debugging with release management and mentorship. Based in Zapopan, Mexico, he is an active open source contributor who brings pragmatic engineering to complex distributed and edge computing projects.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Ingenieria en Instrumentación Electrónica, Ingenieria en Instrumentación Electrónica at Universidad Veracruzana
Maestría en Redes y Sistemas Integrados, Desarrollo de software embebido., Maestría en Redes y Sistemas Integrados, Desarrollo de software embebido. at Laboratorio Nacional de Informática Avanzada A. C.
Maestria, Sistemas Computacionales, Maestria, Sistemas Computacionales at ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Erich focused on improving the agent's functionality within the Kata Containers project. Their contributions included refactoring code to support building in stable Rust, which involved removing features dependent on nightly Rust and updating the README. They also modularized test macros for reusability across tests, and addressed CI/CD failures and formatting issues. The user's work primarily centered around enhancing the agent's codebase and ensuring build stability.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
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Erich Malibran - Software Engineer at Nimble Gravity