Gaël Chamoulaud
Associate Software Engineering Manager & Senior Software Engineer
Angoulême, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolGaël Chamoulaud is an experienced software engineering leader with 13 years at Red Hat, currently serving as Associate Software Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer on the Insights Essentials Inventory team. He brings deep expertise in OpenStack engineering, infrastructure automation, and systems architecture from roles spanning EMEA consulting to core platform development. Gaël’s practical skills include Puppet, Python, virtualization and secure deployment—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used packstack installer where he improved automation, debugging, and SSL/HTTPS handling. He combines hands-on coding and DevOps work with team leadership, mentoring engineers while driving production-grade, auditable solutions. Based in Angoulême, France, he has a background in Linux system architecture and a long track record of standardizing operations to reduce cost and increase reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge low-level system detail and scalable platform design.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Technology science, DUT, Technology science at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Github Skills (12)
puppeteer10
openstack10
openstack-neutron10
puppet10
n10
devops9
automation9
automations9
system-administration8
networking8
linux7
bash5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-openstack/packstack
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Install utility to deploy OpenStack on multiple hosts. This is the GitHub mirror for https://opendev.org/x/packstack.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:94 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Gaël primarily contributed to the Packstack project by implementing infrastructure and automation changes. They modified Puppet manifests to configure and enable debugging mode for Neutron agents, ensuring the auditd service was enabled by default, and setting up NOVNC with HTTPS when using SSL on Horizon. Furthermore, the user improved hardware virtualization support checks and addressed issues related to the handling of interface names and Puppet 4.x compatibility.
hostsansiblegithub-mirroropendevopenstack
RedHatEMEA/puppet-jboss_cli
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:22 commits in 1 month
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