Eric Lavarde
Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat
Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Lavarde is a Senior Principal Architect with over 11 years focused on infrastructure automation, cloud management and large-scale transformation across multicultural teams, now leading Global and EMEA Automation and Edge solutions at Red Hat. He combines hands-on DevOps expertise—contributing to projects like Ansible and rdiff-backup—with strategic consulting, turning customer needs into standardized, reusable service offerings. His background spans roles from technical delivery and transformation lead at HP to senior architecture and engagement management at Red Hat, giving him deep experience in both delivery assurance and solution commercialization. Eric is fluent in shaping complex implementations (Ansible/Tower, Satellite, CloudForms) and coaching consultants to execute them, while also influencing product and engineering direction. Notably, he has practical Windows-focused systems engineering experience in open-source tooling and has driven secure, automated cloud deployments and CI integrations for AWS and Jenkins in AgnosticD. His engineering training from RWTH Aachen and CentraleSupélec underpins a pragmatic, system-level approach to automation and service lifecycle management.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Electronics, Engineer Electronics at CentraleSupélecEngineer Electrotechnics technical information science, Engineer Electrotechnics technical information science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German, French, Polish
Github Skills (28)
debug10
filesystem10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
automation10
aws10
ansible10
file-handling10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
cloud-services10
devops10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:1 release, 136 reviews, 295 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on addressing Windows-related issues within the rdiff-backup project, including resolving file path handling and ACL-related problems. Their work involved modifying code to handle backslashes in file paths, adjusting quoting mechanisms, and implementing fixes for errors related to Windows file attributes. In addition, the user contributed to improving the build process and testing framework by incorporating features such as Bash completion and addressing issues with test execution under Windows.
rsyncrsync-backupslocallydeduplicationrdiff-backup
redhat-cop/agnosticd
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
AgnosticD - Ansible Deployer for multiple Cloud Deployers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 45 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the configuration and deployment aspects of the `agnosticd` repository. Their work includes adding Jenkins server roles, modifying configurations for Ansible Tower, and updating cloud templates, specifically focusing on AWS environments. They also addressed security concerns within the Ansible Tower setup by implementing password protection mechanisms. The contributions strongly align with the development and maintenance of infrastructure as code.
vagrantgpteansibleinfrastructure-managementdeployer
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