Kilian Cavalotti
Technical Lead & Architect, High Performance Computing at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKilian Cavalotti is a Technical Lead and Architect in High Performance Computing with 12+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale Linux and UNIX-based clusters, systems, and networks. Based in Palo Alto, he evolved from HPC systems administration into solutions architecture, bringing deep expertise in Debian, *BSD, security, and high-availability design across academic and research environments like Stanford and CEA. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to projects such as xCAT core to improve DHCP, DDNS, and hardware discovery—with strategic leadership of HPC infrastructure. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Kilian focuses on resilient, secure architectures while staying curious about new approaches and emerging technologies. An understated detail: his GitHub bio quips "Vowels are overrated," reflecting a succinct, no-nonsense engineering style.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (14)
provisioning10
deploying10
perl10
infrastructure-management10
dns9
clustering9
cluster-computing9
bash9
remote-execution9
dhcp9
ipxe8
bare-metal8
ipmi8
openbmc8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
xcat2/xcat-core
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Code repo for xCAT core packages
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:46 commits, 36 PRs, 230 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kilian primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the xCAT core packages. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to hostname resolution (DDNS), preventing redundant entries in /etc/hosts, and enhancing the accuracy of DHCP configuration generation. They also made changes to improve system discovery by adding support for additional hardware vendors and updating the logging mechanism. Furthermore, the user contributed to the overall stability and usability by refining the code and ensuring appropriate integration with external configurations.
bare-metalprovisioningremote-executioninfrastructureinfrastructure-management
stanford-rc/dell_warranty
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 46 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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