Erwan Velu

Erwan Velu is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in DevOps and hardware engineering. As a Senior Staff DevOps Hardware Engineer at Criteo since January 2019, Erwan manages over 50,000 bare-metal servers, focusing on monitoring, performance analysis, and hardware validation while maintaining relationships with vendors and providing OEM/ODM support. Erwan is also the founder of several conferences, including Premday, Kernel Recipes, and Embedded Recipes, which foster community knowledge sharing in infrastructure and embedded electronics. Prior roles include a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, where contributions included deploying efficient OpenStack solutions, a Linux Engineer at SiT by ZodiacAerospace, and a Clustering Project Manager at Mandriva, where Erwan oversaw Linux distribution projects for SuperComputers. Educational background includes a degree in Software and Network Security from ITIN.