Nicolas Vibert
Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer, Isovalent At Cisco at OpenUK
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Vibert is a Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent (now part of Cisco) with nine years of focused experience in cloud networking, Kubernetes, and eBPF. He specializes in Cilium and Kubernetes networking, translating complex eBPF-powered capabilities into practical documentation and adoption guides for operators and developers. Previously a principal cloud architect and solutions engineer at VMware and HashiCorp, he has deep experience driving VMware Cloud adoption and network automation across large enterprises. An active open-source contributor, his documentation work in the widely-used cilium/cilium project has clarified Gateway API features, mutual TLS migration, and real-world HTTP examples. Based in Stockport, UK, he also serves in leadership roles at OpenUK, advocating for open technology and diversity, equity and inclusion in the community. Colleagues describe him as a technical communicator who pairs low-level network expertise with a knack for making complex cloud-native patterns accessible.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) - Télécom Bretagne Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Engineering (MEng) - Télécom Bretagne Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at IMT AtlantiqueUniversitat Politècnica de València
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
aws-apigateway10
ca-api-gateway10
amazon-api-gateway10
api-gateway10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
tls128
mtls8
http8
libtls8
tls138
security7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:17 reviews, 12 PRs, 31 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the documentation of the Cilium project, focusing on the Gateway API and its features. Their commits updated installation instructions, corrected inaccuracies in existing documentation, and added new sections detailing mutual authentication, TLS migration, and HTTP migration examples. The contributions aimed to improve clarity, provide practical examples, and enhance the user's understanding of key features.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
nvibert/start-coding-today
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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