Olivier Cano
Principal Architect at Scaleway
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Cano is a Principal Architect based in Paris with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backends, developer tooling and API platforms at Scaleway. He blends hands-on engineering—shipping CLI, API gateway and Terraform provider improvements—with cross-team architectural leadership, mentoring, and engineering guidelines. His open-source contributions include substantive backend and DevOps work on projects like Scaleway CLI and Intel’s Snap telemetry framework, where he improved plugin management and operational tooling. Comfortable in systems-level topics from compilers to performance benchmarking, he brings a pragmatic understanding of both product needs and low-level implementation trade-offs. Outside work he channels his curiosity into education, programming challenges and skiing, a combination that reflects both technical rigor and team-focused leadership from years as a scout leader.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat with math and engineering science specialization, Baccalauréat with math and engineering science specialization at Lycée Bréquigny RennesMaster's Degree Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Centrale Lille
English, Spanish, French, Esperanto
Github Skills (13)
golang10
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
go10
api-design10
cli10
devops9
docker8
caching8
dockers8
github7
git7
git-repository7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
scaleway/scaleway-cli
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Command Line Interface for Scaleway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 68 reviews, 68 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on enhancing the instance server management functionality of the Scaleway CLI. They implemented the ability to delete server resources, including options for deleting associated IPs and volumes, and added a force shutdown feature. Furthermore, they improved the CLI by reworking argument parsing and handling slice/map schemas. The user also contributed to the build and test tooling, including the addition of scripts for updating goldens.
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intelsdi-x/snap
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
The open telemetry framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 47 commits, 53 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the Snap framework's backend, focusing on improving the core functionality and plugin management. They addressed issues related to time setting within the cache, ensuring consistent behavior. Furthermore, the user modified plugin loading to be case-insensitive and standardized plugin keys, improving overall usability and configuration. The user's work also included modifying the config policies of plugins.
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