Gabriel Féron
Software Engineer at Phoenix R&D
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGabriel Féron is a Berlin-based software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in DevOps, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation, currently shaping delivery practices at Phoenix R&D. He has led DevOps teams at HERE and driven platform reliability at HelloFresh, consistently pushing teams to take end-to-end ownership of products. Gabriel pairs hands-on engineering with a tester’s mindset—contributing quality improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Rust’s cargo and adding TLS support to redis-rs—demonstrating care for cross-platform reliability and secure connectivity. Comfortable both in leadership and deep technical work, he focuses on practical automation and observable, repeatable delivery pipelines that reduce friction for engineers. An engineer by training (MEng) with international experience including studies in Oslo, he brings pragmatic design and a knack for improving developer workflows behind the scenes.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.Software and network engineering, Software and network engineering at University of Oslo
French, English, German
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Github Skills (26)
cargo10
tls1210
package-management10
redis10
testing10
tls1310
networking10
mtls10
libtls10
rust10
test-automation10
async9
io9
error-handling8
build-system7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
redis-rs/redis-rs
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Redis library for rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 10 PRs, 27 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on adding TLS support to the Redis library, gating the feature behind a feature flag. This involved modifications to the connection handling, including adding a `TcpTlsConnection` type and integrating `native_tls` for secure connections. Furthermore, the user addressed errors related to instantiating `TlsConnector` and added support for `async-native-tls`. They also made minor adjustments such as fixing a clippy error and addressing review comments.
rustredisredis-library
rust-lang/cargo
May 2018 - May 2018
The Rust package manager
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to improving the testing framework within the cargo package manager. Their work included adding new tests to verify package publishing behavior, specifically related to detecting modifications to the source directory. They also modified existing tests to ensure compatibility across different operating systems and refined the error messages for greater clarity. The contributions center around maintaining the quality and reliability of the cargo package management process.
rustpackage-managercargo
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