Smaïne Kahlouch
Co-organisateur (responsable Programmation)
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolSmaïne Kahlouch is a senior platform engineer and hands-on leader with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, scalable infrastructure from hybrid Kubernetes fleets to AWS landing zones. He has led SRE and DevEx teams at major media and SaaS companies, driving platform engineering roadmaps, developer experience improvements, and large EKS/Karpenter/KEDA migrations. Active in the Cloud Native community, he co-organises Cloud Native Days France and contributed infrastructure-as-code fixes to the widely used kubespray project, focusing on network plugin integrations and deployment automation. Known for combining technical depth (LPIC-3, CCNA, PostgreSQL training) with people leadership, he regularly runs cross-team DevOps working groups and tech events. Based in Paris, he blends pragmatic operational discipline with a developer-first mindset to standardise deployments and accelerate delivery. A practical problem-solver, he often surfaces subtle operational gaps—like service integration edge-cases in CNI configurations—that improve reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BTS, Information Technology, BTS, Information Technology at GRETA 77Certification Prince2 practionner, Gestion de projets, Certification Prince2 practionner, Gestion de projets at Global KnowledgeCCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, CCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at CiscoN/A, Formation avancée PostgreSQL, N/A, Formation avancée PostgreSQL at Bull formationCertification LPIC-3, Linux, Certification LPIC-3, Linux at LPI
English
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
ansible-galaxy10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
bash9
docker8
dockers8
automation-testing7
yaml7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 285 commits, 328 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Smaïne primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of a Kubernetes cluster deployment. They implemented and modified various service configurations for network plugins like Weave, and ensured the correct integration of these plugins within the Kubernetes environment. The commits reflect a focus on infrastructure-as-code, with adjustments to service definitions, and bash completion scripts, along with scripts for managing Kubernetes versions and checksums.
bare-metalkubesprayhelmproduction-readyansible
Smana/gh-actions-gitops
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Github Actions, GitOps demo (uses ArgoCD)
Contributions:91 PRs, 125 pushes, 94 branches in 9 months
gitopskubernetesargocd
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