Fabien Dupont
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Eu, Normandy, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFabien Dupont is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud, virtualization and DevOps automation from Normandy, France. He has progressed through hands-on architect and engineering leadership roles at Red Hat—spanning cloud domain architecture to senior principal and management positions—bringing deep expertise in OpenShift, KubeVirt, OpenStack and VM migration workflows. His open-source contributions include infrastructure automation in the widely used AgnosticD deployer and backend improvements to ManageIQ's VM conversion tooling, demonstrating an uncommon blend of systems-level automation and VMware API integration. Trained in IT security and mathematical computer science, Fabien pairs rigorous technical foundations with pragmatic production experience, frequently optimizing networking and migration paths that sit behind large-scale cloud deployments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
DESS IT Security, DESS IT Security at Université de Technologie de TroyesBAC+4 IT, BAC+4 IT at Université de RouenBaccalauréat Scientifique Option Sciences Physiques, Baccalauréat Scientifique Option Sciences Physiques at Lycée Georges Dumézil
Github Skills (17)
libvirt10
kubernetes10
ruby10
openshift10
api10
openstack10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
cloud-infrastructure9
yaml9
automation9
cloud-services9
automations9
gpt8
g8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:336 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabien's contributions primarily involve enhancing the `ConversionHost` model, including the addition of methods for building `virt-v2v` wrapper options, and improvements for the handling of authentication and transport methods for VM migration, which aligns with the repository's focus on virtual infrastructure management. They also worked on integrating the `vmware_web_service` library to obtain ESX thumbprints, demonstrating expertise in interacting with VMware APIs. Their work included refactoring existing code and adding validations for aspects of the conversion process, further illustrating their backend development skills.
gcporigamiopenshiftcephredfish
redhat-cop/agnosticd
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
AgnosticD - Ansible Deployer for multiple Cloud Deployers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabien's contributions primarily revolve around automating infrastructure and deployment processes within the AgnosticD project. They focused on enhancing the OpenStack provider integration, allowing greater flexibility in network configuration, including support for not looking up the public subnet. Additionally, they updated templates to manage floating IP descriptions. These changes suggest a focus on optimizing OpenShift/Kubevirt deployment and enhancing the overall automation capabilities of the platform.
vagrantgpteansibleinfrastructure-managementdeployer
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