Summary
Hervé Knochel is a DevOps technical lead and team manager with 14+ years at STMicroelectronics, now leading the SDS team to modernize CI/CD and software engineering practices across SW and HW development. He combines deep compiler and arithmetic optimization expertise from two decades as a compiler R&D engineer with hands-on experience deploying containerization, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). His background in implementing arithmetic optimizations in Open64 and collaborating with academic teams gives him a rare mix of low-level performance tuning and high-level DevOps automation. Based in Grenoble, he drives microservices-based delivery pipelines for embedded and SoC software, bridging rigorous compiler science with pragmatic tooling adoption. Colleagues rely on him for clear operational strategy and for translating advanced compiler techniques into measurable application performance gains.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer