Hervé Nicol
SRE at Giant Swarm
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolHervé Nicol is an SRE and systems architect with over 10 years designing and operating high-availability, scalable infrastructures for telecom and enterprise customers from Nice, France. He blends deep Linux and networking expertise with practical DevOps skills—containers, automation (Ansible/Puppet/Terraform), CI/CD and observability—to make resilient production systems and disaster recovery plans. He has steered infrastructure and tooling at Giant Swarm and led DevOps architecture and production support across consulting engagements, including large Big Data and Docker rollouts for Orange. Known for mentoring teams and translating business continuity requirements into pragmatic runbooks, he also focuses on security and operational policies. Though self-described as having “limited coding skills,” his strength is in glue tooling and pragmatic automation that keeps complex platforms reliable. Colleagues value him for clear architectural choices and a long track record of improving uptime and operability in heterogeneous environments.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BTS, GEII, BTS, GEII at Lycée Félix Le Dantec
English, French
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Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
giant-swarm10
grafana10
grafana-loki10
rex10
elasticsearch10
orchestration10
operator10
monitoring10
ecosystem10
docker-compose10
kubernetes-operator10
golang10
rex-ray10
nlp10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
giantswarm/loki-app
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:125 reviews, 23 commits, 138 PRs in 8 months
hervenicol/docker-influxdb
Jul 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 19 pushes, 16 branches in 6 years 10 months
influxdbdockerdocker-container
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