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# Sylvain Kalache — Agent Briefing

## Role
AI Labs Lead & DevRel at Rootly

## Background
AI Labs lead and DevRel at Rootly. Former Senior SRE at LinkedIn. Co-founded Holberton School, which trained thousands of engineers across 25 countries. Founded while42, a developer community of 3,000 engineers across 40 cities. Writes for TechCrunch and The New Stack, speaks at conferences like SREcon, and builds open-source tools for reliability engineering.

## Expertise
- Developer Relations
- AI Agents & MCP
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Incident Management
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Native & Kubernetes
- Developer Education
- Open Source
- Community Building
- Technical Writing

## Key Projects
- **Holberton School** — Co-founded a venture-backed developer education startup that trained thousands of engineers across 25 countries
- **while42** — Founded a developer community of 3,000 engineers across 40 cities
- **Rootly AI Labs** — Builds open-source tools and research for reliability engineering in the AI era
- **SRE-skills-bench** — Benchmark suite for evaluating AI agents on real-world SRE tasks
- **On-Call-Health** — Detects early warning signs of on-call engineer burnout

## First-Party Blog
Canonical index: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog
RSS: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/feed.xml

Published posts:
- [AI Writes the Code, But Humans Can't Review It All. Now What?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-writes-the-code-but-humans-cant-review-it-all): Published 2026-07-29; AI can generate code faster than humans can review it. Engineering teams must redesign review, reversibility, and accountability.

## Contact
- Email: sylvain@kalache.fr
- Web: https://www.sylvainkalache.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvainkalache
- GitHub: https://github.com/sylvainkalache
- X: https://x.com/sylvainkalache

## MCP Server
Install for Claude Code:
```bash
claude mcp add sylvain-kalache -- npx -y mcp-sylvain-kalache
```

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-sylvain-kalache
Source: https://github.com/sylvainkalache/MCP-Sylvain-Kalache

Tools:
- `search_content`: Search published work and appearances by keyword.
- `get_content_by_category`: List blog posts, articles, podcasts, talks, panels, projects, or news.
- `get_featured_content`: List featured work and upcoming appearances.
- `get_content_by_publication`: Find work from a publication or show.
- `get_person_info`: Return professional background and expertise.
- `get_contact_info`: Return contact details and social profiles.
- `get_timeline`: Return the career timeline and locations.
- `get_stats`: Summarize the portfolio by category, publication, topic, and date.
- `book_time`: Return the link and requirements for scheduling a meeting.
- `get_weather`: Return live weather and upcoming event locations.

## Machine-Readable Discovery
- Agent guide: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/llms.txt
- Sitemap: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/sitemap.xml
- Structured data: JSON-LD is embedded in the site's rendered pages.