Simon Ferquel
Staff Software Engineer at Docker, Inc
Gelos, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolSimon Ferquel is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native developer tooling and AI-powered developer experiences, currently at Docker after a technical leadership stint at Unity. He combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Moby, Docker Compose and vpnkit—with practical improvements to Windows container workflows and Kubernetes deployment tooling. At Unity he led scripting efforts, and his contributions often focus on robustness, cross-platform compatibility and CI/dev ergonomics (for example integrating Kind for local CI and adding CNAB-based image mapping in docker/app). Based in southwestern France, he blends hands-on engineering with systems-level thinking and a knack for making complex deployment and networking problems quietly reliable.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Supinfo
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
back-end-development10
vpn10
apidoc10
testing10
windows10
containerization10
dockers10
networking10
compose10
cicd10
go10
api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
docker/compose-on-kubernetes
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Deploy applications described in Compose onto Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 87 commits, 62 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon focused on enhancing the deployment and operational aspects of the application. Contributions include adding a flag to disable liveness probes, implementing aggregated cluster roles for easier management, and adding a plain HTTP server for health checks. The user also integrated Kind for local development and CI testing, showcasing expertise in Kubernetes deployment and testing strategies.
clustersdockercomposekubernetes-clustersk8s
docker/app
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Make your Docker Compose applications reusable, and share them on Docker Hub
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:39 commits, 35 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed significantly to the `docker/app` repository, focusing on enhancing the integration with CNAB (Cloud Native Application Bundles) and improving the application's deployment capabilities. They added features for image mapping, enabling the generation and consumption of image maps for service images. Furthermore, they implemented support for sharing registry credentials with invocation images and added push and pull functionalities using cnab-to-oci.
docker-hubdockercomposedocker-composeshare
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