Joseph Herlant
Infrastructure Team Lead at Vevo
Emeryville, California United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Herlant is an Infrastructure Team Lead with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale Linux/Unix systems, databases, and cloud-native deployments from Emeryville. He leads infrastructure at Vevo, blending hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—contributions to projects like Datadog integrations, dockerized agents, and fluentd for Kubernetes show deep operational and observability expertise. A longtime open-source contributor and Debian advocate, he improves tooling, testing, and documentation across well-known projects (asciidoctor, HAProxy, pulseaudio, go-github), often tackling subtle quality and automation issues. Comfortable in decentralized and remote teams, he values autonomy and technical challenge and brings a practical engineering mindset rooted in systems-level problem solving. Off the clock he pairs a curiosity for code with a love of music, a small detail that surfaces in thoughtful, user-focused contributions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Information Systems Management, General, Engineer’s Degree, Information Systems Management, General at Université de Technologie de Troyes
German, English, French
Github Skills (52)
asciidoctor10
vala10
kubernetes10
debug10
docker10
develop10
asciidoc10
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
linux10
bash10
environment-variables10
c1110
dockers10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Fluentd daemonset for Kubernetes and it Docker image
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 20 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed to the Fluentd daemonset for Kubernetes project by modifying configuration files and templates related to Kubernetes integration. Their work included enabling the ability to overwrite Kubernetes URLs and SSL parameters and changing environment variables related to Kubernetes configuration. They also merged branches, updated dependencies, and made adjustments to the README file, improving documentation and overall integration with the Kubernetes environment.
hands-ondaemonsetdocker-imagefluentddocker
gnome-pomodoro/gnome-pomodoro
Jun 2014 - Jan 2019
A time management utility for GNOME based on the pomodoro technique!
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 30 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed to the gnome-pomodoro project by fixing bugs, optimizing code, and adapting it for newer GNOME versions. Their work included removing unreachable code, correcting a typo, and modifying the code to function correctly with gnome-shell 3.29 and above. The user also improved performance by lowering CPU usage in animations and pauses, indicating an understanding of the application's inner workings.
gnome-shell-extensionpomodorolinuxgnomepomodoro-technique
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