Kylian Serrania
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolKylian Serrania is a Paris-based computer science student at CentraleSupélec with nine years of hands-on experience contributing to backend and DevOps projects, notably in prominent open-source repositories such as OpenTelemetry and Datadog. He focuses on observability, agent integrations and deployment tooling—adding API key validation, metrics, resource-to-tag conversion, build fixes and cross-platform packaging improvements. Adept at both code-level optimizations (process caches, ReadWriteLocks) and configuration management (Ansible/Chef roles), he bridges monitoring internals and production deployment concerns. His interdisciplinary interests in physics and psychology inform a methodical yet user-aware approach to system design, and outside work he enjoys badminton and DMing a long-running Pathfinder campaign.
9 years of coding experience
Engineer's degree of Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Computer Science, Engineer's degree of Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Computer Science at CentraleSupelecMaths, Physics and Computer Science, Maths, Physics and Computer Science at Lycée Louis-Le-Grand
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (35)
python10
apidoc10
testing10
go-testing10
cicd10
chef-client10
automation10
process-monitoring10
go10
api10
build-automation10
ansible10
opentelemetry10
datadog10
process-monitor10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/ansible-datadog
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Ansible role for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 73 reviews, 67 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kylian primarily focused on improving the Ansible role for the Datadog agent. Their contributions involved adapting the role for newer Datadog agent versions, particularly Agent 7. This included modifying repository configurations and handling system-probe service enablement based on agent versions. Additionally, they addressed issues related to variable handling and Jinja template compatibility, ensuring compatibility across different operating systems and agent configurations.
datadog-agentagentansibleansible-roleansible-galaxy
DataDog/datadog-agent
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 1103 reviews, 1272 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kylian contributed to the Datadog Agent by implementing and improving the status page functionality, including adding host tags, warnings for NTP offset, and fixing template rendering issues. They also modified the GUI, preventing crashes when creating custom check configurations. Additionally, the user's commits included changes to the build process, such as fixing an Omnibus build crash on macOS and adding code signing. The contributions indicate a focus on enhancing the Agent's monitoring capabilities and improving the build and deployment pipeline.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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