Michaël Ferrand
DevOps at Xait en France
Greater Nantes Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichaël Ferrand is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building and migrating cloud-native systems, currently driving Kubernetes migrations and CI/CD automation at Xait in France. He began as a full‑stack developer, delivering PHP, AngularJS and ReactJS applications while maintaining development stacks and deployment pipelines, and has steadily shifted toward infrastructure and developer tooling. An active contributor to popular open-source projects like haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn, he focuses on practical hardening and simplification of containerized environments and networking scripts. Based in the Nantes area, he combines formal systems architecture training with hands‑on skills across web, mobile and DevOps, and is known for removing unnecessary complexity (for example, pruning sudo and firewall cruft) to make operations more reliable.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme Niveau I : Architecture et Management des Systèmes d'Information Génie Logiciel Architecture et Management des Systèmes d'Information, Diplôme Niveau I : Architecture et Management des Systèmes d'Information Génie Logiciel Architecture et Management des Systèmes d'Information at CESI Ecole d'IngénieursBTS Informatique de Gestion Informatique - Développeur d'Application, BTS Informatique de Gestion Informatique - Développeur d'Application at Lycée Notre Dame du Roc
French, English
Github Skills (8)
bash10
docker10
openvpn10
dockers10
ufw9
automations8
automation8
transmission7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michaël's contributions centered around improving the containerized environment for Transmission and OpenVPN. They made changes to the startup and shutdown scripts for Transmission and OpenVPN, removing unnecessary dependencies like `sudo` and modifying UFW installation. The user simplified the Transmission stop script and made alterations to the firewall settings.
transmissionvpntorrent-clientdockertorrent
e7d/docker-diskmark
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
A fio-based disk benchmark docker container, similar to what CrystalDiskMark does.
Contributions:13 releases, 23 PRs, 103 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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