Kévin Lambert
Senior Software Developer at Broadsign
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKévin Lambert is a Senior Software Developer based in Montreal with nine years of experience blending backend engineering, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. He has led teams and delivered production-grade tooling at scale—most recently as a senior developer at Broadsign and previously as a technical lead at Banque Nationale where his APIs and Firewall-as-Code shaped tooling used by hundreds of projects. At Ambassador Labs he steered the Cloud and Telepresence teams, contributing to popular open-source projects like Telepresence and Emissary—improving metrics, RPC/connect behavior, and Helm/CRD integrations that aid remote Kubernetes development. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and operational ownership, he has built licensing/subscription systems, IDE plugins, Vault integrations, and robust E2E test suites. Known for mentoring, advocating DevOps best practices, and turning complex security and deployment requirements into reusable developer platforms, he combines pragmatic engineering with community-focused open-source contributions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Génie electrique et informatique industrielle, Electronique, Génie electrique et informatique industrielle, Electronique at Université d'Evry-Val d'EssonneDiplôme ENSIIE, Ingénierie informatique, Diplôme ENSIIE, Ingénierie informatique at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
helm10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
grpc10
cicd9
api-gateway9
envoyproxy9
rpc9
proxy8
api-management8
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
telepresenceio/telepresence
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:98 reviews, 9 commits, 76 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kévin contributed to the core functionality of the telepresence project, specifically by adding parameters to the connect command and modifying the RPC connector to support the new parameters. They also made changes to the traffic manager's session handling and included fixes for linting issues. Furthermore, the user integrated support for the CRD Helm chart and incorporated it into the helm install command, demonstrating involvement in the deployment and infrastructure aspects of the project.
local-developmentproxyvpndockeropenshift
emissary-ingress/emissary
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 26 commits, 13 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kévin primarily focused on improving the agent's internal workings, specifically concerning metrics handling. The user implemented changes to properly close metric streams, return errors directly, and add a delay between metrics pushes. Furthermore, the user added optional RPC headers for debugging with Telepresence and made changes to the agent's code related to secret synchronization. These changes improve metrics relay, and diagnostics capabilities.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
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