Michel Rouly is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building production-ready systems that blend functional programming sensibilities, tooling, and automation. He has progressed through hands-on engineering and leadership roles at Rally Health and Zephyr AI, pairing a Georgia Tech MS with a strong foundation in research and applied ML from NSF-funded summer programs. Michel contributes to open-source deployment tooling—improving Dagster Helm charts for more robust, document-consistent Kubernetes deployments—demonstrating attention to operational detail often missed by developers. He excels at bridging developer ergonomics and reliable infrastructure, and brings a linguistics-minded curiosity to designing clear, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at George Mason University
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Data Engineer
Contributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily contributed to the Helm chart configurations for deploying Dagster, focusing on enhancing the user deployment subchart. Their work included adding support for service account annotations, image pull secrets, and service account names. Additionally, the user addressed documentation and schema inconsistencies related to the user deployment Helm chart, supporting numeric image tags and adding undocumented fields.
Contributions:77 commits, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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