Kevin Pollet
Software Engineer at Traefik Labs
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolKevin Pollet is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years' experience specializing in Go, network programming, containers and cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Traefik Labs from Bordeaux. He combines backend and DevOps expertise—having fixed race conditions in Traefik, extended UDP support in Traefik Mesh, and improved caching and CDI integration for Infinispan—demonstrating a focus on robustness and protocol-level networking. Previously a tech lead and long-time contributor to Java projects like Hibernate Validator and Forge Core, he brings strong test-driven and validation-minded engineering practices. An active open-source contributor, he balances production-grade implementations with community-focused documentation and maintainability improvements. Kevin’s background in computer science (Master’s with highest honors) and his pragmatic focus on deep-copying configs and interceptor binding details reveal a developer who solves both systemic and subtle correctness issues.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Computer Science, High Honors, Licence, Computer Science, High Honors at Université de Poitiers
French, English
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Github Skills (26)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
annotations10
testing10
javaee10
java10
annotation-processing10
javas10
go10
infinispan10
hibernate-validator10
kubernetes-pods10
datagrid10
joda-time10
cdi10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
traefik/mesh
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Traefik Mesh - Simpler Service Mesh
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 105 commits, 117 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed code related to the implementation of UDP traffic functionality within the Traefik Mesh service mesh. This included adding new test cases, modifying existing code to accommodate UDP traffic types, and interacting with Kubernetes service definitions. Additionally, the user updated documentation by adding a contributing section, reflecting a focus on improving the project's maintainability and community involvement. The commits show the user's involvement in extending the mesh's capabilities to support different network protocols.
meshservice-mesh-interfacedockertraefik-meshkubernetes
traefik/traefik
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:878 reviews, 98 commits, 300 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on addressing race condition issues related to dynamic configuration updates within the Traefik proxy. Their contributions involved adding tests to expose the race conditions, implementing deep copies of the provider configuration to prevent data corruption, and ensuring the correct propagation of configuration updates to the watcher listener. Furthermore, the user contributed towards the implementation of a new HTTP provider. This included adding HTTP provider, and other refactoring tasks, such as setting defaults and integrating new file parsers.
zookeeperproxyload-balancingreverse-proxymesos
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