# Sylvain Kalache — Agent Briefing

## Role
DevRel & AI Labs Lead at Rootly

## Background
DevRel and AI Labs lead 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 (25 countries, backed by Jeff Weiner, Jerry Yang, Solomon Hykes)
- **while42** — Founded a developer community of 3,000 engineers across 40 cities
- **Rootly AI Labs** — Building 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

## 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

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