Summary
Sylvain Cau is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with two decades of software experience and over a decade focused in production engineering and developer tooling. Based in Bellevue, WA, he drives cloud-native migrations and platform work—leading Omada Health’s move from Nomad to Kubernetes, building Go CLIs backed by CRDs, and standardizing multi-arch Docker images with Kaniko. He pairs hands-on systems work (Go, Ruby, Bash, PSQL) with tech leadership: prioritizing cross-team initiatives, shaping CI/CD templates, and collaborating with security and infra to reduce vulnerabilities. Earlier in his career he led front-end rewrites and performance tooling across Angular, React and Electron apps, giving him rare fluency from UI performance to low-level orchestration. He often bridges gaps between developers and platform needs by shipping productivity libraries, anonymization tooling for realistic staging, and observability migrations from New Relic to Datadog. A pragmatic polyglot and trainer, he quietly combines deep operational know-how with a history of teaching teams and running trainings in Docker and modern JavaScript frameworks.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Technical degree in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Computing, Technical degree in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Computing at Université du Creusot
Technical Degree in Computer science, Technical Degree in Computer science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Engineer in Computer science and Communication Networks, Engineer in Computer science and Communication Networks at Ecole supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon
French, English