Olivier Bourdon
Saumane-de-Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Bourdon is a seasoned DevOps and software engineering professional with over three decades of experience across startups and enterprise teams, including founding UShareSoft and senior roles at Sun, Mirantis, OpenNext and SquareScale. He blends deep systems and networking expertise with hands-on cloud-native practice—integrating Vault, service meshes, Prometheus/Grafana stacks, Terraform and Consul—while contributing practical fixes and tests to major open-source projects like Ansible and the widely used osixia/docker-openldap image. Comfortable across languages and platforms (Golang, Python, Rails, React, Docker, AWS/Azure), he excels at making complex infrastructure reliable, secure and testable. Olivier has a rare mix of product-minded startup experience and enterprise-grade telemetry and monitoring work, having driven observability and provisioning solutions for OpenStack and hosted SaaS offerings. Based in Provence, France, he pairs formal CS training (USC, ENSIMAG) with a knack for pragmatic automation and improving upstream projects to benefit the broader community.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of science, computer science, Master of science, computer science at University of Southern CaliforniaLycee Faidherbe LilleEngineer (french level), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision & Robotics, Engineer (french level), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision & Robotics at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble
French, English, German
Github Skills (16)
testing10
ansible10
unit-testing10
openldap10
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
docker10
python10
dockers10
test-automation10
devops9
automation9
automations9
ldap9
docker-image8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
osixia/docker-openldap
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
OpenLDAP container image 🐳🌴
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 135 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the Docker-based OpenLDAP container. They implemented tests to validate LDAP_DOMAIN and LDAP_BASE_DN configurations and added the ability to support subdomains. Furthermore, they enhanced environment variable checks and addressed issues related to the -e flag, ensuring a more robust and reliable container image. These changes directly contribute to a more reliable and user-friendly deployment experience.
containerss6docker-imagedockerldap
ansible/ansible
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 53 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the `interfaces_file` module, fixing bugs related to file content generation and Python 3.6 compatibility. They implemented changes to the `interfaces_file` module to correct interface method changes, fixing a bug where all the interfaces were being updated instead of the specified one. They also added tests to improve test coverage, including changes to the filter to include and exclude specific tests. Furthermore, a random MAC address filter was added, along with related documentation updates.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
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