Philippe Dellaert
Senior Product Manager Tech at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe Dellaert is a Senior Product Manager Tech with 13 years of experience specializing in cloud, virtualization, containers, and software-defined networking, now based in Sunnyvale and currently at Amazon. He blends deep hands-on engineering (Go, Python, Perl, VMware, Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS/GCP/Azure) with product strategy, having led integrations between Nuage Networks VSP and VMware/container platforms. At Nokia he designed APIs, SDKs, admin/security strategy and statistics infrastructures while directly writing SDKs and training customers and field teams, showing rare full-spectrum product ownership. An active contributor to Ansible, he added VMware and SDN-focused modules, reflecting his knack for practical open-source enhancements that bridge operations and development. Colleagues describe him as a curious problem-solver who thrives both remotely and in teams, coaching others and continuously experimenting with new technologies. He also brings early entrepreneurial and nonprofit leadership experience from founding Student IT, underscoring long-term commitment to mentoring and community impact.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Eng. Computer Science, Civil Eng. Computer Science at KU LeuvenMathematics, Mathematics at Sint-Jozefscollege Turnhout
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (10)
automation10
automations10
vmware10
python10
networking10
devops9
ansible9
cloud-infrastructure9
ansible-galaxy9
cloud-services9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2017 - Feb 2018
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:10 commits, 12 PRs, 300 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Philippe contributed to the Ansible project by fixing a module utility issue and creating a new module for managing the Nuage Networks VSP SDN solution. They also developed a module to wait for VMware tools, including code changes and documentation updates. Furthermore, the user added CD-ROM support, including ISO image configuration to the vmware_guest module and added features to the vmware_dvs_portgroup module.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
pdellaert/vspk-examples
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:37 PRs, 78 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year
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