Thomas Ferrandiz
Senior Software Developer at SUSE
Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Ferrandiz is a Senior Software Developer based in Brittany, France, with a strong 4-year professional focus on cloud-native and DevOps engineering built atop a longer career in R&D and embedded systems. Currently at SUSE, he combines practical infrastructure and configuration management skills with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source Kubernetes projects like flannel and k3s, improving CI/CD, logging and test reliability. His background includes research on low-latency communication for space networks (cofunded by CNES and Thales) and engineering roles across telecom and payment platforms, giving him a rare mix of systems-level rigor and production-grade delivery. Colleagues value his ability to translate research-grade problem solving into robust operational tooling that tightens deployment pipelines and observability.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur, Informatique, Ingénieur, Informatique at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble / ENSIMAGMaster 2 Recherche, Systèmes et Logiciels, Master 2 Recherche, Systèmes et Logiciels at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
English, French, German
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
flannel10
docker10
go10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
automation9
automations9
bash9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flannel-io/flannel
May 2022 - Jan 2023
flannel is a network fabric for containers, designed for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 216 reviews, 55 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's commits focus on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and improving the testing process. They implemented changes to display flannel container logs within the CI environment. They also upgraded dependencies and configurations for functional tests.
containersdocker-imagefabricoverlay-networkflannel
k3s-io/k3s
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Lightweight Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 7 commits, 21 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the Kubernetes project. Their contributions involved updating dependencies, integrating new versions of related tools like kube-router and flannel. They also worked on ensuring proper logging and configuration during the K3s startup.
k3dcloudfoundryk8skuberneteskubelet
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