Fahed Dorgaa
Containers And Distributed Systems Maintainer at CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolFahed Dorgaa is a Containers and Distributed Systems maintainer and senior software engineer based in Paris with 10 years of experience building cloud-native microservices, production APIs, and infrastructure automation. He maintains high-profile open-source projects including containerd and nerdctl and is a crossplane contributor, bringing deep runtime and CLI expertise to container ecosystems used widely across cloud platforms. At CNCF and in consulting roles he has designed and operated Kubernetes-based registries, operators, and managed services for large clients like OVH and BNP Paribas, often improving reliability and developer experience through custom forks and tooling. Fahed combines strong Go backend development with pragmatic DevOps practices—CI/CD, Terraform, and observability—to optimize high-traffic systems for performance and resilience. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership in migrations, architecture workshops, and complex troubleshooting, and he frequently speaks and mentors within the cloud-native community. Outside work he balances open-source stewardship with family life, bringing the discipline of maintainership to both codebases and teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Engineer’s Degree at Institut des Sciences et Techniques des Yvelines(ISTY)
English, French
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Github Skills (14)
cli10
command-line-interface10
error-handling10
containerd10
docker10
go10
dockers10
command-line10
kubernetes-pods9
testing9
logging9
kubernetes9
cicd8
devops8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
containerd/nerdctl
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:903 reviews, 74 commits, 194 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Fahed contributed significantly to the `nerdctl` repository by implementing new features such as support for Linux capabilities and adding options for logging drivers. Their work involved modifying core files related to container run actions, networking, and logging. The user also implemented functionality for login, logout, and the integration of environment variables within compose files.
docker-imagecomposemultiarchcliipfs
containerd/containerd
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
An open and reliable container runtime
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 10 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fahed contributed to the container runtime project by addressing code quality, fixing variable names, and improving error handling. They made several code adjustments in multiple files, including core logic, and test files and also improved the structure of the container runtime. The user also updated the version and fixed comments and adjusted the test files.
containersisolationcontainerdrustruntime
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