About

Smaïne Kahlouch

Smaïne Kahlouch

Platform Engineer · Cloud Native community builder

I'm a senior system / SRE engineer with a particular interest in Linux containers, Cloud Native technologies, and more recently in artificial intelligence applied to software engineering — especially AI-assisted coding using agent-based systems. Throughout my career I've worked with a wide range of companies, from dynamic startups to large organizations, helping improve platform reliability and availability while enhancing the developer experience. My journey includes supporting several companies through their transition to the Cloud, and I've also led SRE/DevOps teams made up of diverse profiles — developers and SRE engineers alike — all driving towards common objectives.

This blog is where I share it all: hands-on posts about Kubernetes, GitOps, security, observability… and more recently AI.

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Community

A long-time advocate for the cloud native ecosystem — I've been organizing meetups and conferences in Paris for a decade.

Cloud Native Paris

Lead organizer · 10+ years
The Paris CNCF meetup: talks, demos and hallway discussions about the cloud native ecosystem.

Kubernetes Community Days France

Co-organizer
The French community-driven Kubernetes conference.

Cloud Native Days France

Co-organizer
KCD France's successor: the cloud native conference for the French ecosystem.

Open source

Most of what I write about is backed by working code, published on GitHub. Two projects I'm particularly invested in:

cloud-native-ref

Reference platform
An opinionated cloud native reference platform — EKS, GitOps, Crossplane, security, observability. The backbone of many posts on this blog.

RunLore

AI-powered SRE agent
An open source SRE buddy that investigates incidents, points at the likely root cause fast, and turns every resolution into reusable knowledge.

Talks

Career at a glance

Details on LinkedIn.

  • 2025 – now Staff Platform Engineer Aqemia
  • 2022 – 2025 SRE/Cloud & DevEx Team Leader eTF1
  • 2021 – 2022 SRE/Cloud Team Leader KMTX
  • 2021 Senior Site Reliability Engineer Mirakl
  • 2017 – 2021 DevOps Engineering Manager Dailymotion
  • 2016 – 2017 Technical Lead Claranet
  • 2013 – 2016 Technical Lead, CDN R&D Arkena
  • 2006 – 2013 System Engineer / NOC Coordinator British Telecom

Beyond the terminal

Kickboxing, running, surfing, longboarding and inline skating. When sitting still: science-fiction and fantasy books, or out riding my motorbike.

The thumbnails for each article were generated with DALL-E and Nano Banana (Google).

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