Aurelien Gateau
Summary
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RockstarAurélien Gâteau is a Staff Software Engineer based in Greater Paris with roots in KDE and over two decades of hands-on experience across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. He specializes in front-end user experience while comfortably plumbing deep system-level issues, a skillset honed as product owner and lead developer of the cross-platform Genymotion Desktop Android emulator. An active free-software contributor who maintains KDE’s Gwenview, he also brings practical DevOps and backend experience demonstrated by contributions to GitGuardian’s ggshield—improving caching, packaging, and CI/deployment portability for a widely used secret-detection tool. Pragmatic about proprietary work, Aurélien blends product ownership, release management and usability advocacy to ship reliable, user-focused software. His long-term commitment to open projects and low-level debugging often leads to subtle quality and portability improvements that users rarely notice until they’re gone.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
python10
security10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
configuration-management9
docker8
git8
dockers8
cicd8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GitGuardian/ggshield
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Find and fix 400+ types of hardcoded secrets and 70+ types of infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 815 reviews, 373 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Aurelien contributed to various aspects of the project, including fixing caching issues and optimizing the configuration. They implemented new features, such as an exclude option, and performed release management tasks. The commits also show work in the build and deployment process, fixing issues related to Docker images and improving the portability of hook scripts.
secrets-detectionsecrets-managementcredentialsiacmisconfigurations
agateau-gg/ggshield
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Detect secret in source code, scan your repo for leaks. Find secrets with GitGuardian and prevent leaked credentials. GitGuardian is an automated secrets detection & remediation service.
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 11 months
leaksscansecurity-toolssecrets-detectiongitguardian
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