Sylvain Rabot
SRE at Formance
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSylvain Rabot is a seasoned SRE and infrastructure architect with 16 years of experience building and operating scalable cloud-native systems from Bordeaux, France. He has led end-to-end infrastructure programs—designing multi-account AWS environments, EKS fleets with Cilium and Karpenter, GitHub Enterprise CI/CD, and centralized observability using Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana—while founding and managing SRE teams. A pragmatic engineer, he combines deep operational experience (large hosting fleets and multi-datacenter NAS at F-Secure) with hands-on DevOps: IaC with Terragrunt/Terraform Cloud, FluxCD-driven Kubernetes bootstraps, and advanced access controls using Entra ID and custom IAM. Sylvain is also an active open-source contributor to high-profile CNCF projects (ingress-nginx, traefik, kustomize, prometheus, thanos), where he’s improved memory and API interactions, certificate/tls metrics and cloud provider integrations. He favors measurable, maintainable improvements—evident in work that optimizes controller memory, hardens storage integrations and upgrades build tooling—and brings a habit of small, high-impact fixes alongside architectural vision.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at SUPINFO
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (50)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
docker10
observability10
tls1210
reverse-proxy10
testing10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
command-line-interface10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
alertview10
microsoft-azure10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kube-state-metrics
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 14 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain's contributions primarily focus on adding and modifying metrics related to Kubernetes objects. They implemented the collection of annotations and labels for various Kubernetes resources, and made changes to the metric output in multiple files. Furthermore, they modified test files related to services and CSR stores. Their work demonstrates a focus on enhancing the monitoring capabilities within the kube-state-metrics project.
prometheus-exporteragentkubernetes-exporterobservabilityexpose
thanos-io/thanos
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily contributed to backend improvements and infrastructure-related tasks within the Thanos project. Their work included fixing implementation flaws in the Azure object storage integration, migrating the project to Go 1.12 and replacing `dep` with `go mod`, and addressing a panic related to Azure error handling. Additionally, the user was involved in syncing Prometheus versions, adding AWS SDK authentication, and general build and dependency upgrades. These contributions indicate a strong focus on improving the project's functionality and ensuring its maintainability.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.