Cedric Aubuchon
Owner at Home Repair Help Desk
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCedric Aubuchon is a multidisciplinary owner and IT-minded professional with 14 years of experience bridging small-business operations, human resources, and DevOps-focused technical contributions. He combines hands-on operational leadership—managing multi-million dollar restaurant operations and a family-run home repair service—with HR expertise in ATS administration, workforce analytics, and inclusive hiring practices. Transitioning into IT, Cedric has contributed to notable open-source projects like Mantl and HashiCorp Nomad, implementing secure Consul integrations, TLS/ACL support, and resilient cluster join/retry mechanisms that emphasize automation and reliability. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs practical infrastructure scripting and network troubleshooting (LAN/WAN, POS, printers, IoT) with strong communication and confidentiality skills. His background in audit and certification work for statewide behavioral health programs adds rigorous documentation and compliance capabilities not often found in tech-focused profiles. Based in St. Louis, Cedric blends community-rooted service, technical curiosity, and data-informed HR strategy to solve operational and infrastructural challenges.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology at Columbia CollegeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Louisiana State UniversityHuman Resources Professional Certificate , Human Resources: Talent Retention | Talent Engagement | Executive Coaching, Human Resources Professional Certificate , Human Resources: Talent Retention | Talent Engagement | Executive Coaching at Cornell University
Github Skills (22)
docker10
tls1210
configuration-management10
tls1310
dockers10
mtls10
consul10
go10
libtls10
infrastructure-as-code10
command-line-interface9
security9
command-line9
ansible9
ansible-galaxy9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mantl/mantl
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:299 commits, 147 PRs, 147 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Cedric primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the Mantl platform, particularly focusing on the integration and deployment of Consul. They implemented features like TLS support, ACL configurations, and integrated an nginx proxy for enhanced security and UI access. Additionally, the user made modifications to streamline the deployment process by creating scripts for leader election and rolling restarts, as well as by configuring iptables rules. Their contributions suggest a focus on securing and automating the core components of the Mantl platform.
deployingdockerkubernetescloud-nativedistributed
hashicorp/nomad
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Cedric primarily contributed to the Nomad agent's configuration and startup process, adding features for cluster joining using command-line options and retry mechanisms. They introduced `start_join` and `retry_join` options to the server configuration, enabling agents to join a cluster at startup and retry connections. Furthermore, they modified the configuration to set default values for retry attempts and intervals and fixed an issue with parsing configuration values.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
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