Menra Wedwang Romial - Cloud & Green IT - Application Deployment and Energy Optimization of Infrastructures

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PhD student specializing in Cloud Computing and Green IT, with a strong focus on energy-efficient application deployment and infrastructure optimization. My expertise spans from low-level power management (Intel RAPL) to high-level orchestration systems (Kubernetes), with a proven track record in designing scalable, energy-aware solutions for modern cloud infrastructures.

Experience#

PhD Student - Inria · November 2024 – Present

  • Research on energy-efficient cloud computing and sustainable IT infrastructure
  • Development of novel approaches for green application deployment
  • Focus on energy optimization in distributed systems

Research Intern - IMT Atlantique · April 2024 – August 2024

  • Implemented server power limitation using Intel RAPL technology
  • Conducted large-scale experimentation on Grid'5000 distributed infrastructure
  • Developed energy-aware Kubernetes scheduler with custom resource constraints
  • Deployed and managed k3s clusters with containerized applications using Docker

Software Developer & Team Lead - Forall Founders (Cameroon) · May 2022 – March 2024

  • Led a team of 10 developers designing e-Learning platforms and school management systems
  • Architected full-stack applications using Django, Node.js, React.js, Next.js, and Vue.js
  • Project Manager for a mobile e-Learning application with 15,000+ active users
  • Optimized cloud infrastructure resulting in 75% reduction in page load times

Education#

Master of Engineering in Computer Science - ENSPY, Cameroon · 2021–2024 Specialization in Distributed Systems and Software Engineering

Preparatory Class (Mathematics & Physics) - ENSPY, Cameroon · 2019–2021

Student Supervision#

Clement Obama - M2 Research Intern, IMT Atlantique · April 2026 – September 2026 Reactive control of energy constraints in Kubernetes clusters: multi-lever re-adaptation policy with SLA management

Teaching#

See the Teaching page.

Technical Skills#

  • Languages: Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C, Bash
  • Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes (k3s, k8s), CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), Terraform, Grafana/Prometheus, GCP, Linux administration, Nginx, Jenkins
  • Web: Django, Node.js/Express, React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, Spring Boot, FastAPI
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Research & HPC: Grid'5000, Intel RAPL, energy profiling, performance benchmarking

Selected Projects#

Certifications#

IBM & Google (Coursera, 2023): Agile Development and Scrum, Applied Data Science Capstone, Data Visualization with Python, Databases and SQL for Data Science, Machine Learning with Python · EPFL (Coursera, 2021): Object-Oriented Programming in Java