About

Blog

Welcome to cloudmaniac.net! I started this blog in 2014 by myself, Romain Decker, mainly as a self-documentation exercise on my findings and a place to share my experience and write down thoughts on various technical challenges.

This blog is powered by Hugo and hosted on AWS services (Route53, CloudFront, S3, Lambda).

Author

I am currently working as a Principal Product Manager at Spectro Cloud. I have 18+ years of diverse work experience in architecture, consulting, and technical product management. Throughout my career, I have worked for a variety of organizations, including hosting companies, enterprises, EU institutions, and system integrators. More recently, I spent 8.5 years at VMware, working first as a Solutions Architect before focusing on Technical Product Management for the VMware Cloud Provider Program.

I constantly renew my technological background through experimentation. When I’m not working, experimenting with things in my lab, or spending time with my wonderful & lovely wife and my two boys, I enjoy activities such as snowboard, running, mountain-bike, or photography. If you’re interested or just curious, you can check some of my photos on my 500px account.

I hold numerous industry certifications, including VCDX-DCV (VMware Certified Design Expert for Data Center Virtualization) and VCDX-NV (VMware Certified Design Expert for Network Virtualization). Verify my digital credentials and badges on Credly.

My VCDX number is #120. You can find me among my peers on the official directory: Meet the VMware Certified Design Experts.

I’m also a VMware vExpert since 2014 and a vExpert NSX, which rewards my commitment to the community.

Speaking Engagements

Besides my blog and my activity on social media, I also started to speak at public events such as VMUG, VMworld or other internal events.

• VMworld US 2016 (Las Vegas) - Advanced Network Services with NSX
• VMworld EMEA 2017 (Barcelona) - NSX, API, Automation and Unicorns
• France VMUG 2018 (Paris) - VMware NSX & Palo Alto Networks
• VMworld US 2018 (Las Vegas) - Architecting PKS for Production
• VMworld EMEA 2018 (Barcelona) - Architecting PKS for Production
• VMware Tech Summit 2019 (Las Vegas)
• Empower US 2019 (Atlanta)
• France VMUG 2019 (Nantes) - Architecting NSX-T for Enterprise PKS
• South Florida VMUG 2019 (West Palm Beach) - NSX, API, Automation…and Unicorns
• Czech Republic VMUG 2019 (Prague) - Beyond Kubernetes: Advanced Container Networking and Security with NSX-T
• VMworld 2020 (Online) - All Things Networking for VMware Cloud Providers
• Empower 2021 (Online) - NSX-T Data Center and VMware Cloud Director Design Considerations | NSX-T for VMware Cloud Provider Partners Unplugged | NSX Data Center for vSphere to NSX-T for VMware Cloud Provider Partners
• VMworld 2021 (Online) - Meet the Expert: NSX Data Center for vSphere to NSX-T Data Center for Cloud Providers with Romain [MCL1095]
• VMworld 2021 (Online) - Executing on the NSX-V to NSX-T Transition for VMware Cloud Providers [NET2271]
• Empower 2022 (Online) - Beyond Networking Automation with VCD, NSX-T and Terraform | VMware Cloud Director Networking Deep Dive

Medias / Videos / Podcasts

• Feature Friday Episode 18 - NSX-V to NSX-T Migration Tool for Cloud Director

• Feature Friday Episode 19 - NSX Advanced Load Balancer Integration with Cloud Director

• Feature Friday Episode 21 - NSX-T VRF Lite support in Cloud Director

• Feature Friday Episode 22 - NSX-T Data Center Groups

• Feature Friday Episode 33 - Terraform vCloud Director Provider 3.1

• Feature Friday Episode 34 - NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director Tool 1.2

• Feature Friday Episode 44 - VCD NSX-T Northbound Routing

• Feature Friday Episode 52 - NSX-V to NSX-T Migration Tool 1.2.1

• Feature Friday Episode 60 - VMware Cloud Director 10.3, NSX-T vApp Networking Services

• Feature Friday Episode 78 - NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director 1.3.1

• Feature Friday Episode 99 - Feature Friday Episode 99 - NSX Advanced Threat Protection

• Le Cloud: Where is my mind? from the French Unleash your storage passion Podcast

• Using VMware in the Public Cloud – Community RoundTable 2020

• VCD Round Table

• The power of SBOM: get the K8s security visibility you need, automatically (webinar)

• Spectro Cloud Blog

• VMware Cloud Provider Blog

Contact

If you are looking for updated information about my career or my professional skills, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

• Follow me on Twitter: @woueb
• Email: romain [at] cloudmaniac [dot] net
• GitHub: github.com/cloudmaniac

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Disclaimer

Any views or opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer.