MENRA W. Romial

My job is to convince Kubernetes to care about energy.
It doesn’t listen. I insist. We compromise. Eventually, something moves.

The question I wake up with every morning: why does running a container have to cost so much electricity? Spoiler: it doesn’t have to. That’s the whole point of my PhD at Inria.

I work on energy-aware scheduling, power capping, and SLA management in cloud clusters. Concretely: I poke servers with Intel RAPL, run large-scale experiments on Grid’5000, and write schedulers that treat energy as a first-class constraint, not an afterthought.

The result: clusters that do more with less: less heat, less waste, less electricity bill.
Not by sacrificing performance. By being smarter about how resources are used.

Somewhere between a PhD thesis and a power meter, that’s where you’ll find me.
If you want to talk cloud, green computing, or Kubernetes internals, I’m always up for it.