Ken Gaillot
Software Engineer
US, France
Summary
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RockstarKen Gaillot is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in back-end systems and high-availability infrastructure. Based in the US and originally from France, he contributes to prominent open-source projects like Pacemaker and sosreport, focusing on bug fixes, memory-leak remediation, log enhancements, and sensitive-data scrubbing. His work shows a pragmatic attention to reliability and observability—improving debug messages and adapting tooling to distribution-specific behaviors. Formerly a software engineer by title on GitHub, he brings steady, detail-oriented craftsmanship to production-critical C/C and systems-level code.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
debugging10
debug10
python10
high-availability10
plugin-development10
pacemaker10
c-programming10
refactor10
system-administration10
error-handling10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
data-collection9
log-analysis9
linux9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/pacemaker
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Pacemaker is an advanced, scalable High-Availability cluster resource manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 releases, 4235 reviews, 8123 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ken's contributions primarily focus on bug fixes and refactoring within the Pacemaker resource management system. Their work involves fixing memory leaks in the libcrmcommon library, refining code style, and addressing case-sensitive comparison issues within the libstonithd library. They also introduced features such as the addition of a default string to the "crm_str()" equivalent. Furthermore, the user has enhanced log messages for improved debugging within the code base.
scalableavailabilityresource-managerpacemakerscale
sosreport/sos
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
A unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to the `sosreport/sos` repository by enhancing the pacemaker plugin. Their work included collecting additional logs, improving password scrubbing for sensitive information, and refactoring the plugin to improve distribution-specific classing. Furthermore, the user updated the plugin to include the latest Pacemaker 2.0 log locations and refined the execution of `pcs` commands based on system support. The changes reflect a focus on improving the functionality and data collection capabilities related to pacemaker.
loggingcollectingdebugsystem-logslogs
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