Olivier Gambier
Founder at Uniform Teeth
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolOlivier Gambier is an experienced engineering leader and founder with 12 years building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling from San Francisco. He has held senior engineering and director roles at Docker and founded multiple startups, blending hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with product leadership. Olivier is an active open-source contributor to high-profile container projects—most notably refactoring and modernizing the docker/distribution and docker-registry codebases—and has improved CI/build systems and testing infrastructure across projects like docker/machine and hipache. Comfortable shipping production services and enhancing reliability at scale, he also advises growing companies and intermittently steps back to think strategically about his next technical endeavor. An applied mathematician by training, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to dependency and release management that’s informed by deep low-level systems work.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Janson de SaillyMathematics, Mathematics at ENSAE Paris
English, French
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Github Skills (49)
docker10
python10
bower10
testing10
gulp10
gunicorn10
test-framework10
makefile10
distributions10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
build-automation10
test-automation10
api-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
distribution/distribution
Jul 2014 - Oct 2018
The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:207 commits, 194 PRs, 149 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Olivier's primary contribution involved refactoring code related to the `docker/distribution` package, focusing on updating dependencies from `docker-registry` to `distribution`. This included significant changes across multiple files, such as modifications to the main registry application, API endpoints, and storage driver implementations (e.g., in-memory, Azure, S3). Furthermore, the user updated dependency versions related to Google Cloud Storage within the vendor folder, likely to address security issues.
containersshipdockerdelivercncf
hipache/hipache
Mar 2014 - Nov 2016
Hipache: a distributed HTTP and websocket proxy
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:59 commits, 13 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier's contributions primarily focused on improving the test infrastructure and ensuring the reliability of the `hipache` project. They fixed issues with various test environments, including Memcached, Redis, Etcd, and Zookeeper, by correcting server startup/shutdown procedures and addressing timeout issues. They also made enhancements to the testing framework, allowing for better server start detection and more flexible error handling, demonstrating a focus on improving the stability and maintainability of the testing process.
golangproxywebsocketwebsocket-proxydistributed
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