Kevin A
Staff Software Engineer at Docker, Inc
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.
13 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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
testing10
firewall10
bash10
metadata10
ruby10
automation10
automation-testing10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
information-extraction10
alpine-linux10
static-ip-address10
linux10
docker-compose10
ftp10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
docker/build-push-action
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
GitHub Action to build and push Docker images with Buildx
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 releases, 247 reviews, 500 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the project by adding a new action setup-buildx for building and pushing Docker images. The commits involved implementing features such as setting buildx as the default builder and integrating support for setting Docker environment variables. Further improvements involved adding support for cloud-based Docker build instances and improvements in the build process, including handling Docker annotations.
github-actions-dockerpushdockerhubdockerdocker-images
crazy-max/csgo-server-launcher
Aug 2012 - Dec 2022
Counter-Strike Global Offensive Dedicated Server Launcher
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 8 reviews, 197 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the project by modifying the shell scripts used to launch and manage the CSGO dedicated server. Their work focused on improving the update process, including adding email notifications after updates, handling update failures with retries, and implementing auto-update functionality. They also integrated features for workshop support, enhanced the configuration, and addressed code quality aspects like indentation and carriage return issues.
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