Jean-laurent De Morlhon
SVP Engineering, GenAI Acceleration
Houilles, Île-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-laurent De Morlhon is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years driving developer-focused infrastructure and cloud-native products, currently SVP Engineering for GenAI Acceleration at Docker. He led Docker’s engineering expansion from a 50-person company to 600, overseeing teams across Europe and the US and shipping hallmark products like Docker Engine, Docker Hub and Docker Desktop. A hands-on former backend and DevOps engineer, he contributed to notable open-source projects such as docker/machine and docker/docs—improving VirtualBox integration, test coverage and release automation. His background blends early CTO roles and large-scale J2EE architecture with practical delivery experience, making him fluent in both strategic scaling and low-level operational detail. Based in Île-de-France, he pairs product-scale leadership with a penchant for automating release and environment workflows that quietly reduce friction for hundreds of engineers.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
ISIM ( Polytech Montpellier ) - Computer Science, ISIM ( Polytech Montpellier ) - Computer Science at University of MontpellierIUT - Computer Science, IUT - Computer Science at Université Paris 13
French, English
Github Skills (16)
bash10
docker10
go10
virtualbox10
dockers10
cicd10
virtualization10
scripting9
build-automation9
shell9
script9
sh9
release-automation8
test-integration8
integration-testing8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
docker/machine
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Machine management for a container-centric world
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 225 commits, 198 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jean-laurent primarily contributed to the `docker/machine` repository by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the virtualbox driver. These changes included better detection of VirtualBox installations, fixing environment variable unsetting issues, and incorporating various integration test improvements. They also worked on code readability and made improvements to the release process automation by adding more automation features.
containersopenflowdocker-machinedockerkubernetes
docker/docs
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Source repo for Docker's Documentation
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jean-laurent primarily contributed to the `docker/docs` repository by fixing bugs and improving the virtual machine environment setup for Docker. They refactored OS-specific code and added tests for VTX detection within virtual machine drivers. Additionally, they worked on various fixes, including those related to the `env` command and release script, and introduced a version command. This user's commits demonstrate a focus on improving the overall functionality and release process.
docker
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