Gilles Gagniard
Senior Software Architect, Digital For Airlines at Amadeus
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolGilles Gagniard is a Senior Software Architect with 13 years of experience designing cloud-native, microservices and streaming architectures for the airline industry, currently shaping Digital for Airlines at Amadeus. He leads platform and product strategy for Digital Retailing used by 100+ customers, balancing technological vision with engineering experience, security, and technical debt management. His career at Amadeus spans hands-on engineering, team leadership, and multiple architect roles across offer, merchandising, shopping and availability domains, giving him deep domain expertise in airline retail systems. A practical cloud and DevOps practitioner, he has contributed to the widely used Ansible project—improving Google Cloud Engine support and robustness in core modules. Trained at ENSIIE and Oxford, he blends rigorous academic foundations with a long track record of shipping resilient, production-grade distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a strategist who still enjoys diving into code to solve thorny infrastructure and integration challenges.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at University of OxfordEngineer's degree, Engineer's degree at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
libcloud10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
gcp10
devops9
dockers5
docker5
fest3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gilles primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Engine (GCE) module, focusing on adding and improving subnetwork functionality. They implemented the ability to specify subnetworks when creating GCE instances, and added better error messages for when the user's Apache Libcloud version was incompatible. Additionally, the user fixed image family handling within the GCE module, and addressed connection type and remote user settings for local connections within the Ansible core code.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
gillesgagniard/wso2-wsf-cpp-gg
Jan 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
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