Originally from France, Alban currently lives in Berlin where he is a co-founder and software engineer at Kinvolk GmbH. He is the technical project lead for rkt, a container runtime for Linux. Before falling into containers, Alban worked on various projects core to modern Linux; kernel IPC and storage, dbus performance and security, etc. His current technical interests revolve around networking, security, systemd and containers at the lower-levels of the system.