Olivier Vernin
Engineering Manager at Jenkins project
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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RockstarOlivier Vernin is an engineering manager and founder with 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD systems from Brussels. He led infrastructure and operations at CloudBees, served as Jenkins Infrastructure Officer, and now manages engineering at SUSE while maintaining Updatecli, reflecting a mix of leadership and maker instincts. Olivier is an active open-source contributor to projects like Rancher Fleet and Jenkins pipeline tooling, notably improving report publishing with Azure storage and Docker-integrated CI steps. He combines deep Linux/DevOps roots (from VOIP platforms to scalable Kubernetes deployments) with a pragmatic focus on reproducible automation and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex deployment challenges into reliable, auditable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
Stackoverflow
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604reached
1answer
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Github Skills (16)
gitops10
jenkins10
kubernetes10
jenkins-ci10
docker10
go10
devops10
dockers10
groovy10
kubernetes-pods10
azure-cli10
cicd9
k8s9
yaml7
python6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-infra/pipeline-library
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
Collection of custom steps and variables for our Jenkins instance(s)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 25 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on improving the Jenkins pipeline library by implementing and updating features related to publishing reports. Their contributions included modifying the `publishReports.groovy` script to utilize Azure file storage for report deployment. The user updated the azure-cli version, corrected command options, and integrated with Docker for the execution of Azure CLI commands. Furthermore, the user made changes to the `infra.groovy` file to allow Docker credentials and set the DockerHub organization based on the Jenkins instance.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginpipelinejenkins-api-plugingocd
rancher/fleet
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 35 commits, 33 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `fleet` project. The commits show modifications to the target package, including changes to how bundles are deployed and managed within Kubernetes clusters. They also made updates to the build process, including updates to the `go.mod` and `Dockerfile.dapper` files. The commits also include fixing typos and other minor updates to improve code quality.
clusterskubernetes-clustersk8skubernetesgitops
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