Quentin Barrand
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolQuentin Barrand is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems in networking, cloud and embedded domains. Currently focused on hardware-offloaded Software-Defined Networking at NVIDIA, he previously led Kernel Module Management efforts within Kubernetes at Red Hat, enabling out-of-tree kernel modules for OpenShift. His background spans data streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ), large-scale infrastructure automation (Puppet, OpenShift, GitLab-CI) and network service modernization at CERN, where he rewrote critical DNS tooling in Go. Early work on embedded measurement systems for high-speed trains gave him a strong grounding in low-level development and real-time constraints. Comfortable across Go, Rust and Linux containers, he combines systems-level craftsmanship with hands-on operational experience shipping resilient, scalable services.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering student with apprenticeship training, Computer Science, Engineering student with apprenticeship training, Computer Science at ENSIIEBachelor's degree, Computer science, Bachelor's degree (DUT Informatique), Bachelor's degree, Computer science, Bachelor's degree (DUT Informatique) at IUT de Belfort-MontbéliardEmergent Networks & Services, Emergent Networks & Services at Télécom SudParis
French, English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (145)
tooling10
testing10
infrastructure10
operator10
commons10
catalog10
kubernetes-operator10
kmm10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
kernel10
go10
openshift10
documentation10
meta10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rh-ecosystem-edge/gitstream
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Sync two repositories by cherry-picking upstream commits into downstream
Contributions:54 reviews, 68 commits, 108 PRs in 6 months
repositoriescommitssynccherryupstream
qbarrand/release
Dec 2021 - May 2024
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:105 pushes, 78 branches in 2 years 6 months
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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