Nicolas Barcet
Chief Executive Officer at nijalabs inc.
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Barcet is a seasoned technology executive with 14+ years leading product, strategy and field engineering teams at enterprise open-source leaders including Red Hat, Canonical and Intel, and now CEO of nijalabs. He has driven adoption of cloud and edge platforms—shaping OpenStack strategy, telco partnerships, and initiatives in sustainability, sovereignty, RISC-V and AI—while translating customer insights into co-engineered products. An early Ubuntu and OpenStack contributor and former Ceilometer project lead/contributor, he blends deep community open-source experience with commercial product scaling. Based in Saint Petersburg, FL, he now advises and builds startups in open-source AI inference, combining operator-level strategy with hands-on documentation and developer advocacy.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University - East BayLycée Buffon, Paris
French, English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (5)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
sphinx9
openstack8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/ceilometer
Jun 2012 - Sep 2013
OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:24 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas focused on enhancing the documentation for the Ceilometer project, specifically targeting the developer documentation. They added a new section for release notes, included documentation for configuration options, and improved the overall structure and clarity of the documentation. Their contributions also involved updating links, correcting typos, and providing recommendations for database backends.
telemetryopenstackopentelemetry
nijaba/operate-first.github.io
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Website of the Operate First initiative
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 days
operateinitiative
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