Sebastien Goasguen
Senior Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastien Goasguen is a senior software engineering manager and entrepreneur with 13+ years building cloud-native platforms, currently leading engineering at NVIDIA from Geneva. He cofounded TriggerMesh and previously led cloud technology teams at Bitnami and Skippbox, blending product ownership with hands-on development and DevOps expertise. A prolific open-source contributor, he created kubeless and has meaningful commits across Kubernetes, Helm, Kompose and Apache CloudStack, demonstrating deep Kubernetes and serverless chops. His background spans academia and research (associate professor and CERN scientist) through to startup exits, giving him a rare mix of rigorous engineering and product-driven execution. An O'Reilly author and frequent speaker, he also brings developer advocacy and technical writing experience, including work on Kubernetes training materials. Outside tech he’s an endurance athlete—marathoner and mountainbiker—reflecting a penchant for long-term focus and disciplined execution.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph-D, Ph-D at Arizona State UniversityIngenieur, Ingenieur at ENSEEIHTMaster of Science, Master of Science at King's College London
Russian, Spanish, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
event-driven-architecture10
kafka10
bash10
apache-cloudstack10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
localization10
go10
api10
manage10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sebgoa/oreilly-kubernetes
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
O'Reilly Online Training for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 70 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien primarily contributed to the repository by creating and modifying infrastructure scripts and configuration files related to Kubernetes. Their work includes creating Python scripts for interacting with the Kubernetes API, configuring scheduling examples, and setting up bootstrap scripts. They also worked on cloudinit files for Kubernetes and setting up Istio in a Kubernetes environment using Helm, demonstrating a focus on automating deployments and managing the Kubernetes cluster.
oreillytrainingonline-trainingk8skubernetes
vmware-archive/kubeless
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Kubernetes Native Serverless Framework
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:123 commits, 130 PRs, 93 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien primarily contributed to the serverless framework by implementing and modifying Python runtime environments. They developed event-driven architectures using Kafka, including consumer and producer implementations. The user also worked on improving the deployment process, including adding health check endpoints and integrating examples for various services like Twitter, Minio, and Slack, with updates to related documentation and examples. Additionally, they made changes to the deployment scripts and configuration files.
golangserverlesskubelesskubernetesaws
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