Kevin Pouget
Principal Software Engineer Virtual GPU Acceleration And Performance
Cahors, Occitania, France
Summary
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RockstarKevin Pouget is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in virtual GPU acceleration, performance optimization, and virtualization of compute accelerators. He holds a PhD in Computer Science focused on interactive debugging for multicore and embedded systems and brings deep low-level expertise in runtimes, OS interactions, and tooling. Now at Red Hat, he drives integration and performance work for virtual GPUs in Linux containers on Windows and macOS, building on prior work in live VM snapshots, incremental checkpointing, and Kubernetes GPU operator improvements. A longtime FOSS enthusiast, he contributes to projects like GDB and has enhanced the widely used NVIDIA GPU Operator with scaling, state management, and Prometheus observability integrations. His background blends academic rigor with hands-on systems engineering and DevOps fluency, making him adept at solving complex cross-layer performance problems.
18 years of coding experience
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
cuda10
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
automation9
automations9
prometheus9
openshift9
cicd8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA/gpu-operator
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
NVIDIA GPU Operator creates, configures, and manages GPUs in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes SpecialistContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 88 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the NVIDIA GPU Operator's functionality within a Kubernetes environment. Their contributions include implementing features to support node scaling by synchronizing GPU labels, optimizing the state management process to avoid accumulating states, and modifying DaemonSet deployments for more granular control over GPU components. Furthermore, the user added metrics and alerts by leveraging Prometheus and enhanced the OpenShift Driver Toolkit integration.
gpukubernetesnvidiaoperatorcuda
openshift-psap/matrix-benchmarking
Aug 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:38 reviews, 300 PRs, 296 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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