Gilles Devaux
Senior Staff Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGilles Devaux is a Senior Staff Engineer in New York with 16 years of experience building highly scalable systems and leading platform engineering efforts at companies including Spotify and Yahoo. He combines deep hands-on expertise in DevOps, infrastructure automation, monitoring and metrics with polyglot backend development in Python, Ruby, Java and C. Gilles has repeatedly driven operational excellence—introducing Chef at high-growth startups, automating monitoring stacks, and optimizing cookbook behavior in open-source apt/chef components to reduce costly apt-get updates. His background in geospatial systems and in-memory indexing underpins a practical knack for performance tuning and large-scale data services (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis). Known for bridging engineering and ops, he thrives on turning messy, high-volume systems into reliable, observable platforms.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Geospatial Technologies, Master of Science, Geospatial Technologies at ENSTA Bretagne
French, English
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Github Skills (8)
chef-client10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
apt10
facebook-open-graph6
meta-tags6
terraformer3
terraform3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apt
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Development repository for the apt cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gilles primarily focused on modifying the apt cookbook to avoid triggering `apt-get update` unnecessarily and streamline the cache rebuild process. Their commits involved changes to the `repository.rb` and `providers/repository.rb` files, specifically addressing how apt keys are installed and how apt repositories are managed. These changes appear to be aimed at improving performance and efficiency of the cookbook.
cookbookchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformaptchef
gilles/dot-files
Feb 2012 - Sep 2017
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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