Xavier Avrillier
Solutions Architect at Giant Swarm
Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Avrillier is a Solutions Architect with 10 years' experience designing and operating VMware and Kubernetes-based infrastructures, currently helping customers adopt managed Kubernetes at Giant Swarm. He combines deep virtualization expertise—having delivered VMware projects for the Council of the European Union and major enterprises—with hands-on Cluster API work (vSphere, VCD) and upstream contributions to address customer needs. Based in Aix-en-Provence, he also consults freelance on complex infrastructure migrations and trains teams in VMware technologies, blending technical delivery with knowledge transfer. Pragmatic and automation-first, Xavier frequently writes PowerCLI and YAML to codify operations, and has translated that operational experience into technical writing and education work.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Network and security, Bachelor's degree, Network and security at Aix-Marseille UniversitéHND, IT Management, HND, IT Management at Louise Michel High-School, GrenobleMaster's degree, System, Network (Virtualisation, storage, system et networking), Master's degree, System, Network (Virtualisation, storage, system et networking) at ingesup
English, French
Github Skills (110)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
giantswarm/cluster-cloud-director
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
App to provision a cluster with Cluster API provider VMware Cloud Director (VCD) using the Giant Swarm app platform
Contributions:171 reviews, 32 commits, 182 PRs in 8 months
cluster-apigiant-swarmvmwarecapvcd
vxav/capi
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:60 PRs, 192 pushes, 64 branches in 3 months
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