Raoul Millais
Senior Software Engineer at InfluxData
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRaoul Millais is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across cloud-native and security-focused projects, now at InfluxData. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at Parity Technologies, ControlPlane (where he led the Kubernetes Simulator project), and as VP Engineering and principal consultant at YLD, demonstrating a blend of hands-on engineering and people leadership. His open-source work on a Kubernetes security training platform shows strengths in DevOps, infrastructure testing, and improving developer experience—adding automated README generation, non-root container testing, and CI-friendly tooling. Fluent in translating complex distributed systems requirements into reliable, testable builds, he pairs practical security-minded engineering with a background in languages (French and Russian) that hints at strong communication and cross-cultural collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
French and Russian, French and Russian at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (13)
sh10
terraformer10
script10
docker10
shell10
dockers10
terraform10
scripting10
testing10
cicd9
kubernetes8
security8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
controlplaneio/simulator
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
Kubernetes Security Training Platform - focusing on security mitigation
Role in this project:
DevOps & Security Engineer
DevOps & Security EngineerContributions:3 releases, 614 commits, 64 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Raoul primarily contributed to the testing and infrastructure aspects of the repository. They implemented testing frameworks and infrastructure for the integration of different components. The user added a Dockerfile for launching the container and used `dgoss` for testing the launch container, running tests as a non-root user. Moreover, the user's work includes adding automatic generation of the README by integrating make help into the readme, and refactoring the code to integrate tools and functionalities for a smoother build and developer experience.
focusingsecuritytrainingsecurity-trainingkubernetes
raoulmillais/dotfiles
Jun 2011 - Nov 2022
Contributions:402 commits, 149 pushes in 11 years 6 months
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