Sylvain Kalache

Co-Founder

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States11 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led AI Labs at Rootly, developing innovative reliability tools.
Co-founded Holberton School, training engineers globally.
Designed patented self-healing infrastructure at LinkedIn.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused expert in AI reliability and developer education.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai DevelopmentReliability EngineeringDeveloper RelationsEducation ManagementSite Reliability Engineering

Other Skills

AI-driven toolsopen-source reliabilityincident managementDevRelPublic RelationsTechnical communicationEngineering educationPartnership buildingCurriculum developmentInfrastructure designSelf-healing systemsMachine learningEditorialContent ManagementOnline PR

About

Sylvain Kalache is a technologist and strategic communicator with two decades of experience at the intersection of engineering, public relations, and developer advocacy. He leads AI Labs at Rootly, developing AI-driven open-source reliability tools and prototypes, sponsored by Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Google Cloud. Previously, he co-founded Holberton School – training highly skilled software engineers in 25+ countries – forging partnerships with leaders such as LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Grammy-winning artist NE-YO. Graduates have gone on to work at top-tier companies including Apple, Nvidia, and Meta. Earlier, as a Senior SRE at LinkedIn, he co-designed a patented self-healing infrastructure. He regularly writes for tech publications, including TechCrunch, The New Stack, and VentureBeat.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Rootly

Head of AI Labs

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · United States · Remote

Exploring what happens when AI meets reliability — and sharing everything we learn. I lead AI Labs and Developer Relations at Rootly, where we build open-source tools, prototypes, and research to push reliability forward. https://rootly.com/ai-labs
A few of our projects:
On Call Health: A tool that looks for signs of overload in your on-call engineers.
SRE Skills Bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-world SRE Tasks?
Rootly MCP Server: incident management from your favorite IDE.
Rootly is an AI-powered on-call and incident response. Trusted by leading companies like NVIDIA, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Brex, and more.

AI-driven toolsopen-source reliabilityincident managementAI DevelopmentReliability Engineering

Big o pr

Developer Relations Consultant

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Remote

DevRel & PR consultant helping dev tools and cloud-native startups grow awareness and credibility with technical audiences.
Clients: Airbyte, Cloud Foundry, Coder, Datree, Data on Kubernetes Community, Jetic, Mindee, Mirantis, Loft, Luos, OpsVerse, OVHcloud, Qovery.

DevRelPublic RelationsTechnical communicationDeveloper Relations

Holberton school

Co-Founder & President

May 2015 – Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Co-founded and scaled a global engineering education company that trained thousands of Silicon Valley-caliber software engineers across 25+ countries, with alumni hired by top tech firms like Apple, Tesla, LinkedIn, and NASA.
Holberton was acquired by African Leadership International (ALI).

Engineering educationPartnership buildingCurriculum developmentEducation Management

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

May 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Built and maintained an infrastructure displaying 3 billion slides/month.
Designed a machine learning powered self-healing infrastructure (Patent US-20150281137-A1)

Infrastructure designSelf-healing systemsMachine learningSite Reliability Engineering