Valentin Delaye
Senior DevOps Engineer at Google Summer of Code
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolValentin Delaye is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Lausanne with over a decade of hands-on experience automating CI/CD and private cloud infrastructures using Kubernetes, Jenkins, OpenTofu, Ansible and GitOps practices. He drives developer self-service and scalable on-prem platforms through Backstage, Argo Workflows and custom Kubernetes Operators built with Quarkus and the Java Operator SDK. At ELCA and prior roles he has industrialized toolchains (Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube) and delivered Infrastructure as Code across diverse environments from OpenStack to Azure. An active open-source maintainer, Valentin oversees the ORAS Java SDK for the CNCF and more than 45 Jenkins plugins, and mentors students in Google Summer of Code, reflecting a long-term commitment to community-driven tooling and plugin modernization. Versatile in both platform engineering and developer enablement, he combines deep operational experience with a developer-focused mindset to make complex infrastructure feel like a product.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at HEIG-VDMaturité professionnelle commerciale, Maturité professionnelle commerciale at CPLN-EPCCFC Médiamaticien, CFC Médiamaticien at CPLN-ET
French, English
Github Skills (200)
quarkus-extension10
pmd10
testing10
trunk10
nunit10
bitnami10
automation10
jenkins-plugin10
client-library10
login-page10
localization10
api10
github-api10
sketching10
credentials10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jonesbusy-automation/metadata-plugin-modernizer
Aug 2025 - Jun 2026
GSoC 2025 - Plugin Modernizer Improvement - https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4728
Contributions:351 pushes, 161 branches in 10 months
jonesbusy/pipeline-npm-plugin
Feb 2023 - Aug 2025
Jenkins plugin providing pipeline based integration with NPM
Contributions:30 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years 6 months
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