Gilles Chehade
Founder at Plakar
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolGilles Chehade is an IT architect and founder with 18 years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable network and system applications across Unix environments (Linux, BSD and others). He is the founder and primary maintainer of OpenSMTPD and a long-time OpenBSD contributor, bringing deep expertise in secure development patterns like privilege separation and isolation. Gilles has led architecture and payment-focused engineering at Veepee, designed PCI-compliant payment facades, and now runs multiple ventures offering consulting and general-purpose tech services. Comfortable from single-machine tools to highly available distributed infrastructures, he prefers being "most-stack"—highly competent across his core domains rather than full-stack breadth. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also trained in hypnotism and work psychology, which informs his pragmatic approach to team dynamics and user-facing design.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechNational Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
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Github Skills (8)
c1710
smtpd10
c1110
smtp10
smtps10
openbsd10
networking9
security9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
poolpOrg/fion
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
poolpOrg/OpenSMTPD-book
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 days
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