Curriculum Vitae | Damien DUPORTAL

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Personal

Whoami: Damien DUPORTAL - 09/12/1987
Contact & Social: E-Mail damien.duportal+pro@gmail.com | Github dduportal | @DamienDuportal | LinkedIn Profile
Location: France

Professional Experience

Staff SRE for the Jenkins Project at CloudBees

From: 12/2020 until today

CloudBees / Jenkins Project - Remote

Description

Lead and mentor the Jenkins Public Infrastructure Team, as the community elected Jenkins Officer (2022, 2023, 2024)
Promoted to Staff Software Engineer (SRE) Job Level since 01/2022
Senior Software Engineer (SRE) Job Level from 12/2020 until 12/2021

DevOps Consultant for OpenIO/OVHcloud as Freelancer

From: 01/2020 until 11/2020

OpenIO / OVHcloud (OVHcloud acquired OpenIO in July 2020)- Remote

Description

CI/CD consultant (audit, engineering, maintaining)
- Enterprise Product on a private Jenkins instance, including immutability, configuration as code, and pipeline shared libraries
- Open Source Product on TravisCI and CircleCI
- Continuous Testing with Infrastructure as Code (Openstack platform driven by Terraform + Ansible, Docker containers driven by compose and k3s)
- Training and guiding on CI/CD good practices to capitalize on the company’s effort
Product Advocacy:
- Communicating publicly through press events, blog posts, conferences about the OpenIO products and knowledge
- Elaborating technical demonstrator for futur integrations with Kubernetes, Function-as-a-Service and IA markets
Presales Effort: Technical support for the pre-sales team

Developer Advocate for the Traefik Project as Freelancer

From: 07/2018 until 12/2019

Containous - Remote

Description

Advocating for the Traefik Community:
- Conferences talks / workshops, writing Blog Post
- Contributing to the Open Source project software
- Driving Issues triage and Community Forum
- Working on the User Experience: Documentation, packaging, installation, Helm Chart maintenance, platform validations
Participating on other Containous products
- User experience, documentation, website and packaging for Traefik Enterprise Edition
- PreSales and Solution Architect for customers during early phases of Traefik Enterprise Edition
- User experience, documentation, website and packaging for Maesh Service Mesh

Training Infrastructure Consultance as Freelancer

From: 02/2019 until 09/2019

CloudBees - Remote

Description

Consultancy for knowledge transfer and technical support for the training infrastructure. Implied documentation and teaching current team on managing infrastructure with Terraform, Docker and Compose on AWS and the training content framework with Asciidoctor, revealjs, Docker and GulpJS.

Jenkins Infrastructure Consultance as Freelancer

From: 06/2019 until 09/2019

Synolia - Remote + Onsite at Lyon, France

Description

Jenkins infrastructure audit & good practices
Teaching the team to autonomously switch to SSH Agents with Docker capabilities
CI/CD Pipeline audit

Training Engineer for Jenkins Project and Products

From: 02/2016 until 06/2018

CloudBees - Remote

Description

Providing training to CloudBees customers as part of the service offers. Maintaining the training catalog, building, driving and contributing to a collaborative training as a code content base. Building and delivering training labs for self paced and trainer based. Part time consultancy for CloudBees Professional Service team.

Lead DevOps Engineer & Technical Advocate

From: 07/2014 until 02/2016

Atos Worldline - Lyon & Lille (France), Brussels (Belgium)

Description

Part time bootstrapping the usage of Docker within Worldline by pushing an internal collaborative initiative. Part time as technical 'firefighter', generally to support birth pains of first production deliveries. Part time as technical advocate to the internal forge to scale out to 8000 users.

GIS Software Engineer / Platform Engineer

From: 04/2011 until 07/2014

Atos Worldline - Lyon, France

Description

Operational leading of a GIS platform for the French Geographical Institute. Project management of new applications integration, maintaining in operational state, coordinating with external companies, maintaining state-of-the-art and innovative tooling. Part time member of the 'Innovation Labs', teaching virtualizing products and building reusable tooling for developers.

Platform Engineer

From: 12/2010 until 04/2011

Atos Worldline - Lyon, France

Description

Maintaining in operational state a set of heterogenous platforms for French ministries, coordinating with production teams (internals and externals).

GIS Software Engineering Internship

From: 04/2010
Until: 10/2010
Sword Group

Description

Integration of open-source GIS software inside IntelliGIS, a new product based on Oracle/ESRI and written in Java.

Teachings

Course: Introduction to Continuous Integration and Deployment

01/2019 (Promotion 2018/2019)
- Slides
12/2017 (Promotion 2017/2018)
- Slides
02/2017 (Promotion 2016/2017)
- Slides
École Nationale des Sciences Géographiques (E.N.S.G.)

Description

A 2-days introduction to Continuous Integration and Delivery (C.I/C.D.) practices to IT Master-2 students. Use Jenkins for included workshop, and request to use an alternative (hosted) CI for the exam (GitLab CI, TravisCI, Github Action, Bitbucket Pipeline, CircleCI, etc.).

Course: Introduction to Docker Containers

10/2017 (Promotion 2017/2018)
- Slides
10/2016 (Promotion 2016/2017)
- Slides
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (C.N.A.M.)

Description

Introduction to Docker and Containers to Master-2 or equivalent student, whom are taking studies after working a few years (3 hours night course).

Course: Architecture of Geographical Information Systems

12/2015 (Promotion 2015/2016)
- Slides
12/2014 (Promotion 2014/2015)
- Slides
École Nationale des Sciences Géographiques (E.N.S.G.)

Description

Teaching GIS basics to Master-2 students for a 50-hours grade. Covering basics of High Availability, Data management, System architectures. Practical session around Geoserver to understand fault tolerance.

Course: Introduction to Highly Available Architectures

09/2014 (Promotion Grenoble 2014/2015)
03/2014 (Promotion Lyon 2013/2014)
Slides
École Professionnelle des Sciences Informatique (E.P.S.I.)

Description

Teaching basic concepts of High Availability to Master-1 students during a 20-hours grade, to 3 different groups. Practical sessions around basic fault tolerance patterns.

Le seigneur des conteneurs : un atelier de migration vers Kubernetes et Traefik
Slides | Session Information | Source

Voxxed Luxembourg 2019

Edge Routing et HTTPS pour tous: Traefik en pratique
Slides | Session Recording | Source

DevOpsPro Vilnius 2019

"This Website is Not Secured". You Had One Job: Configuring the Edge Proxy!
Slides | Session Information | Source

Config Management Camp 2019

You Had One Job: Configuring the Edge Router
Slides | Session Information | Source

Devoxx Belgium (Antwerpen) 2018

Traefik: A Scalable and Highly Available Edge Router
Slides | Session Recording | Source

Jenkins/DevOpsWorld 2018 EU (Nice)

10 things we all do, but shouldn’t do with Jenkins
Slides | Session Information

DevConf India (Bengaluru 2018)

Traefik , The Cloud Native Edge Router
Session Information

Voxxed Luxembourg 2018

10 choses (que tout le monde fait) à ne pas faire avec Jenkins
Session Recording

Devoxx France (Paris) 2018

10 choses (que tout le monde fait) à ne pas faire avec Jenkins
Slides | Session Recording

DevDay Mons 2018

Jenkins, la nouvelle génération
Session Recording

Jenkins World US (San Francisco) 2017

Session Information

DockerCon EU (Copenhagen) 2017

Tales of Training: Scaling CodeLabs with Swarm Mode and Docker-Compose
Session Recording

GDG Devfest Lille 2017

Jenkins, BlueOcean and Declarative Pipelines
Slides

Devoxx France (Paris) 2017

Bird of Feather - Jenkins
Session Information

Mix-IT Lyon 2017

Jenkins Declarative Pipeline
Session Information

SnowCamp IO Grenoble 2017

Bâtissons ensemble un pipeline avec Jenkins et Docker
Session Information

Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2016

Jenkins 2.0 et Pipeline, que se passe t’il ?
Session Recording

DockerCon Barcelona 2015

Breaking the Docker Rpi Challenge
Session Recording

MixIT Lyon 2015

Portable Devbox using Docker
Session Recording

DockerCon Amsterdam 2014

Docker in a Big company
Session Recording

Meetups

Belgium Kubernetes Meetup - Leuven - 2019 Traefik v2.0 & Maesh: Look Ma’, routing HTTP and TCP with no Hands! https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/kubernetes-belgium/events/264700528/
DevOps Malmö Meetup - Malmö - 2019 Look Ma’, a Dynamic Edge Proxy with HTTP, TCP and no Hands! https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/DevOpsMalmo/events/263834695/
Docker Birthday #6 (2019): "How do you docker ?" Luxembourg Edition! Smart Routing et HTTPS pour tous : Traefik en action ! https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-luxembourg-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker-luxembourg-edition/#/
Docker Meetup Marseille - 2019 Smart Routing et HTTPS pour tous : Traefik en action ! https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Docker-Marseille/events/258666309/
Meetup SFEIR Lille - 2019 A la découverte de Traefik 2.0 https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/SFEIR-Lille/events/262018005/
Meetup GDG Lille - 2019 Tests de bout en bout en shell avec “bats”, pour CLI, containers et clusters https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/GDG-Lille/events/260272230/
WaJUG Jenkins & Blue Ocean Workshop - Liège - 2018 - http://www.wajug.be/talk/2018/jenkins-blue-ocean-workshop
Zenika’s NightClazz Jenkins & Blue Ocean Workshop - Lille - 2017 - https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/NightClazz-Lille-by-Zenika/events/245281912/?eventId=245281912
Docker Meetup Lyon Docker on the CI/CD area - 2017 - https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Docker-Lyon/events/240415824/?eventId=240415824&chapter_analytics_code=UA-48368587-1
ChtiJUG Lille Jenkins 2 & Pipeline - 2017 - https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/ChtiJUG/events/236839680/
Brussels JUG Jenkins & Blue Ocean - 2017 - https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Belgium-Jenkins-Area-Meetup/events/239817576/?eventId=239817576
Docker Meetup Grenoble Introduction à Docker Swarm - 2016 https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Docker-Grenoble/events/222375065/?eventId=222375065
Docker Meetup Brussels Collaborative Docker Swarm Workshop on Raspberry Pi - 2016 http://dduportal.github.io/slides/docker-meetup-brussels-20160210
Online Docker Meetup Rpi2 challenge status - 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u2hO6-hV80
Docker Meetup Lyon Docker, Pets vs Cattles - 2014 http://dduportal.github.io/slides/docker-meetup-lyon-20140528/

Webinars

Traefik Online Webinar - 2019 Back to Traefik 2.0 - Gigawatts of Routing Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qYWPC6YdI&t=1226
Containous Online Webinar Traefik Enterprise Edition Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOuUy1ZD7E
Traefik Online Webinar - 2019 Keep the Routing Simple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEB0SFaCpUY

Writing Experiences

Interviewed in the book DevOps Paradox by Viktor Farcic about "Empathy for the DevOps Culture".
Blog Post Traefik and Docker: A Discussion with Docker Captain, Bret Fisher on Containous Blog
Blog Post Co-Author of Announcing Maesh, a Lightweight and Simpler Service Mesh Made by the Traefik Team on Containous Blog
Blog Post link-:https://d2iq.com/blog/from-zero-to-hero-in-minutes-with-konvoy-s-built-in-traefik-for-kubernetes["From Zero to Hero in minutes with Konvoy’s built-in Traefik for Kubernetes",window="_blank"] on D2IQ (formerly Mesosphere) Blog
Blog Post Serie "The Journey to Traefik Enterprise Edition" on Containous Blog:
Blog Post The Road to a Better Kubernetes Ingress on VMBlog.com
Blog Post Le DevOps : nouveau levier technologique au service des réseaux sociaux on Le Journal du Net (J.D.N.)

Open Source Projects Experiences

Contributor of the AsciiDoctor project: Maintainer of the AsciiDoctor Docker image
Contributor of the Traefik project, focused on documentation, Docker Image for official Docker Hub (Linux, ARM, Windows) and usability.

Education

Master Degree of IT Engineering

Graduated in 10/2010
Started in 09/2005
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (I.N.S.A.) Lyon

Description

2 years of common engineering and sciences (Math, Physic, Chemistry, Industrialization, IT, Humanities, Languages, Sports, etc.)
3 years of software engineering

6 Months Academic Exchange

12/2009
06/2009
Chile
Pontificia Universidad de Valparaíso (P.U.C.V)

Description

Academic exchange in Chile as part of my software engineering master diploma, studying Software Engineering in Valparaíso University.

Skills

Languages

French: Native
/ English: Professional usage (5 years in international companies with US English use as only language, public speaking experience, 865 TOEIC)
Spanish: Middle level (6 months in Chile, university grade)

Methodology

Test Driven Development
Behavior Driven Development
Continuous Integration / Deployment / Delivery
Collaborative Development: Code Review & Pair Programming

Technical

🐳 Docker mastery:
- Docker mentor
- Public Speaker on DockerCons
- Contributor
- Official Image Maintainer for Traefik and Asciidoctor and dduportal/bats projects
- Usage in production since version 0.8 (including Compose, Swarm and registry)
⎈ Kubernetes enthusiast: Build and contributed to Helm Charts, Customer cases at Containous with bare metal Kubernetes, public speaking and writing about Kubernetes Ingress and network model.
SCM daily usage: SVN (2008-2011), Mercurial (2010-2014), Git (2011-today)
Jenkins mastery
Linux/Unix Infrastructure Background
- Include CentOS, RedHat, Debian, Alpine Linux … and macOS Server
- My first Linux was Yellow Dog Linux (ref. yum) on a Macintosh PowerPC
- Bash enthusiast (with testing with Bats)
Hashicorp Stack enthusiast:
- Vagrant contributor
- Golden Image Infrastructure Patterns: Using Packer/Terraform since 2012/2014
A bit of frontend development experience: Grunt and GulpJS, NPM/NodeJS for Asciidoctor and HTML slides frameworks.
Languages experiences: Java, Golang, Bash, Lua, C/C++, Javascript, HTML5/CSS3