Antoine Jacoutot
Chief Technology Officer at GNOME Foundation
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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SeniorAntoine Jacoutot is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Paris with 19 years of experience building resilient platform and infrastructure teams. He combines deep systems-level expertise—demonstrated by long-standing contributions to OpenBSD, GNOME glib, Meson and the Lumina desktop—with senior leadership roles across fast-growing companies like Believe, ManoMano and sunday. Skilled at bridging low-level OS work and large-scale platform engineering, he has shipped cross-platform compatibility fixes, build-system integrations and automation that keep complex deployments maintainable. An active open-source maintainer and OpenBSD developer, he brings rare credibility in security- and OS-focused engineering while running product-aligned platform organizations. Colleagues rely on him to tame thorny system problems and translate them into scalable operational practices. He also quietly contributes tooling and test adaptations that improve upstream compatibility for niche platforms such as OpenBSD.
19 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (30)
dependency-management10
unit-testing10
c-language10
mson10
system-programming10
package-management10
python10
scripting10
testing10
build-system10
c1110
makefile10
openbsd10
c1710
script10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openbsd/ports
Oct 2006 - Jan 2023
Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:27248 commits in 16 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily contributes to the OpenBSD ports repository by updating and modifying build configurations and dependencies for various software packages. Their work involves adapting to new versions of build tools like Meson, incorporating features such as MAKE_JOBS support in tests, and registering removals or renames of packages within the system's configuration files. The commits reflect a focus on keeping the package infrastructure current and maintainable, with emphasis on automation and adapting build processes to evolving tools.
mailing-listlibgit2mailingportspull-requests
GNOME/glib
May 2011 - Jul 2019
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the `glib` repository, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements related to build processes, platform-specific implementations, and credential handling. The commits reveal efforts to improve compatibility with older compilers and specific operating systems like OpenBSD. Their work also involved the modification of core system functions and the addition of supporting libraries, demonstrating a focus on system-level programming and cross-platform compatibility.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
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