Marin Gilles
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cognex Corporation
Les Montets, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarin Gilles is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient, cloud-native infrastructure from scratch to production. Based in Switzerland, he has led end-to-end deployments of HA Vault/Consul clusters, Kafka backup solutions, and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir) while automating CI/CD and secret management with Terraform, Ansible, Go and Python. He contributed to high-profile open-source projects, including backend work on the Internet Computer (Rust) and test automation for IPython, showing both systems-level and QA depth. Marin pairs a PhD in Physics with hands-on DevOps instincts, often turning complex operational constraints into simple developer-facing tools—such as authentication helpers that reduce deployment steps to a single 2FA input. Practical, security-minded, and curious, he thrives on improving quality through automation and thoughtful system design.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Preparatory school for university entry Physics Technologies and Engineering sciences., Preparatory school for university entry Physics Technologies and Engineering sciences. at Rouvière High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at Université de BourgogneMaster 2 Molecular nano- and bio-photonics for telecommunications and biotechnologies, Master 2 Molecular nano- and bio-photonics for telecommunications and biotechnologies at ENS CachanFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
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Github Skills (13)
ipython10
build-system10
rust10
python10
bazel10
testing10
service-discovery9
configuration-management9
blockchain8
jupyter7
notebook7
unit-testing6
django6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/ic
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Marin primarily contributed to the development of the Internet Computer blockchain source code. Their work focused on building a vector configuration generator, which included changes to build files and core Rust code. They refactored job types from string to enum, modified service discovery, and addressed fixes within the configuration and main application logic. Their commits show expertise in Rust and related build processes.
replicablockchainnodesdfinityinternet
ipython/ipython
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marin primarily focused on testing and related fixes within the IPython repository. Their commits involved adding and modifying tests for the `IPython.utils.text` module and the `LSString` class. They introduced new tests and made adjustments, including fixes related to path imports, with an emphasis on ensuring the correct functionality of string manipulation and path-related utilities.
documentation-websitepythondata-sciencebuildsnotebook
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