Hi, I'm Cedric — but most people know me as cedi.
I'm a Senior Site Reliability Engineering and Tech Lead at Microsoft Azure, working on distributed systems, chaos engineering, and platform resilience at scale.
If it's complex, distributed, and needs to stay up — I'm into it.
- Building reliable, large-scale systems with a focus on resilience, SLOs, and automation
- Leading teams and setting technical direction in high-stakes, high-scale environments
- Designing chaos experiments, improving release workflows, and modernizing infrastructure
- Evangelizing good SRE practices through talks, docs, and community work
I regularly help with infrastructure, planning, and logistics for events like the Chaos Communication Congress. During the pandemic, I helped build:
- jitsi.rocks - A collection of Jitsi Video Servers to stay connected
- Open Infrastructure - A collective of people building desperately needed infrastructure for education institutions to keep classes going
- The Kubernetes stack powering the rC3 - NOW HERE virtual workd
- Home lab with Raspberry Pi K3s cluster, CEPH storage, and a Stratum 1 NTP/PTP time server
- Cluster API managed cloud Kubernetes cluster running a full Grafana LGTM Stack
- Kernel recompilation just for fun (and for weird hardware drivers)
- Low-level distributed systems algorithms to explore gossip and consensus protocols
I’m also a hobbyist analog photographer with a small collection of 35mm and medium format cameras (Leica M6, Hasselblad 500 c/m, Canon A1).
I develop film at home and have a tiny darkroom with a 35mm enlarger.
- Be excellent to each other 🤝
- Focus on fundamentals > chasing hype
- Alert on symptoms, not vitals
- Incidents are opportunities to learn
- There is no single "root cause"
- How Complex Systems Fail is required reading
- Your beloved system architecture exists mostly in your head and
behavesfails differently than you'd expect. (See the Above the line/below the line framework)
