Maël Kimmerlin
Senior Cloud Acceleration Architect
France
Summary
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Top SchoolMaël Kimmerlin is a Senior Cloud Acceleration Architect with nine years of experience designing and delivering containerization, virtualization and cloud-native platform solutions across research and industry. He blends deep academic roots in OpenStack networking and cloud federation with practical engineering at Ericsson and NVIDIA, focusing on resilient automation, provisioning and orchestration. A proactive open-source contributor, Maël has improved Cluster API fuzzing and expanded bare-metal Kubernetes support (metal3), surfacing hard-to-reproduce infrastructure bugs into testable fixes. He excels at turning prototypes into production-ready tooling, with hands-on work on BMC drivers, redfish support, CI/CD and parameterized deployment scripts. Based in France, he pairs system-level rigor from his doctoral work with a pragmatic, DevOps mindset that accelerates platform adoption and reduces operational friction. Colleagues rely on him for elegant solutions to complex infra problems and for bridging research innovation with production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Faidherbe, LilleMaster of Science, Networking Technology, with Honours, Master of Science, Networking Technology, with Honours at Aalto-yliopistoTélécom SudParis
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
bare-metal10
testing10
provisioning10
dockers10
metal10
iron10
automation10
go10
irony10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
redfish10
fuzzing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
metal3-io/baremetal-operator
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Bare metal host provisioning integration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 100 reviews, 39 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Maël primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the baremetal-operator project, modifying BMC driver implementations and test suites. Their work involved refactoring code to handle URL structures and table-driven tests. Additionally, the user added support for redfish BMC and incorporated metal3 metadata during deployment. The user also made enhancements to deployment scripts, parameterized container runtimes, and fixed issues related to CI/CD and containerization.
bare-metalkubernetesprovisioning
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Maël primarily contributed to the enhancement and expansion of the project's fuzzing framework, enabling the integration of custom fuzzing functions. They also added scheme registration for CustomResourceDefinition and List, alongside the inclusion of a baremetal provider within the clusterctl pre-defined providers list. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to the KCP (Kubeadm Control Plane) and metal3 provider configurations, fixing a book CSS and modifying provider repositories.
cluster-apisubprojectk8s-sig-cluster-lifecycle
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