Arnaud Lefebvre is a Technical Lead in Infrastructure with 12 years of experience designing, operating and automating cloud and bare-metal platforms from Nantes, France. At Clever Cloud he progressed from web developer to head of systems and now leads infrastructure strategy, ISO 27001 security work and deployment policies across multiple datacenters. He combines hands-on systems engineering (backbone and switch OS projects, bare-metal provisioning) with pragmatic software development to drive operational reliability and customer-facing managed services. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed critical stability and TLS issues in the Rust-based Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy and added runtime-configurable features that improved safety and HTTPS handling. Known for building and documenting repeatable procedures, he blends technical depth with team formation and cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat professionnel systèmes électroniques numériques, Mention Bien, Baccalauréat professionnel systèmes électroniques numériques, Mention Bien at Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle
Concepteur et developpeur en projet numériques, Computer Engineering, Concepteur et developpeur en projet numériques, Computer Engineering at IMIE - Ecole de la Filière Numérique
Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy, configurable at runtime, fast and safe, built in Rust. It is awesome!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 131 commits, 80 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily contributed to the backend of the Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy, focusing on improving its stability and functionality. Their work involved fixing critical bugs such as preventing panics when listening ports are unavailable and addressing issues related to TLS certificate handling. The user also added features like providing more informative error messages and added support for configuring the channel buffer size for workers. Additionally, the user improved the system by adding a configuration to automatically redirect traffic to HTTPS, along with other performance and functionality enhancements.
Contributions:77 commits, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 10 months
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Arnaud Lefebvre - Technical Lead - Infrastructure at Clever Cloud