Kevin A
Staff Software Engineer at docker
Nancy, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolKevin A is a Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience, currently leading core engineering at Docker where he focuses on Go, containers and Linux ecosystems. He is a prolific open-source maintainer and contributor, best known for Docker Actions and the Diun image-update notifier, with deep involvement across high-profile projects like docker/cli, buildx, build-push-action and moby/buildkit. His work blends backend Go development, CI/CD automation and DevOps engineering—improving build pipelines, cross-platform builds and metadata/versioning in production tooling. Kevin brings a strong systems background from earlier roles in defense and enterprise software architecture, giving him a practical edge on reliability and security. Based in Nancy, France, he combines hands-on coding with community leadership, participating in Docker’s Captain program before moving into staff-level responsibilities. Notably, he often drives subtle but impactful improvements to build infrastructure and image lifecycle tooling that accelerate developer workflows at scale.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
IT Systems Programmer Analyst Certificate Computer Engineering, IT Systems Programmer Analyst Certificate Computer Engineering at Ministère de la DéfenseBachelor of Science Engineering Sciences, Bachelor of Science Engineering Sciences at Institution Saint JosephProfessional Computing and Networks Qualification Computer Engineering, Professional Computing and Networks Qualification Computer Engineering at Lycée Loritz
French, English
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Github Skills (110)
testing10
firewall10
bash10
metadata10
ruby10
automation10
automation-testing10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
information-extraction10
alpine-linux10
static-ip-address10
linux10
docker-compose10
ftp10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
docker/buildx
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Docker CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 1295 reviews, 377 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions focused on enhancing the build process and infrastructure of the Docker buildx project. They refactored the validation process for GitHub Actions and allowed secrets to be passed with environment variables. Additionally, they added support for configuring the default progress output through an environment variable and implemented the writing of build metadata to a file. Further contributions involved updating dependencies and incorporating new features to support compose files.
buildkitdocker-cli
docker/setup-buildx-action
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
GitHub Action to set up Docker Buildx
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:39 releases, 135 reviews, 202 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the setup and configuration of the Docker Buildx action. Their work focused on modifying the build process and dependencies related to the action. They also made adjustments to the environment variables and buildkit flags to support more advanced build configurations.
buildxdockerbuildkitgithub-actions-docker
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