Gonéri Le Bouder
Senior Software Engineer at Ansible by Red Hat
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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RockstarGonéri Le Bouder is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with 19 years of experience building and hardening backend systems, particularly in PHP, Python, and DevOps automation. Currently at Ansible by Red Hat, he contributes to core automation, VMware and AWS collections, and cloud-init, demonstrating strong expertise in infrastructure-as-code and cross-platform cloud initialization (including FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD). His open-source work shows a focus on robustness and maintainability—fixing edge-case bugs, improving idempotency, and enhancing testing and CI for widely used projects like Ansible and cloud-init. He also maintains and modernizes legacy inventory and management tools (OCS Inventory, FusionInventory), bringing practical improvements to XML/DB handling and session management. Known in the community as @virt-lightning and a contributor to BSD cloud images, he blends low-level OS/network knowledge with automation at scale.
19 years of coding experience
English, French
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/community.vmware
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Ansible Collection for VMware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 142 commits, 348 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gonéri primarily contributed to the `community.vmware` Ansible collection by enhancing existing modules and improving code quality. Their work involved modifications to the `vmware_dns_host`, `vmware_guest_network`, and `vmware_guest_disk_info` modules, adding features and addressing idempotency. Additionally, the user enabled flake8 for the project and implemented a functional test for the inventory, indicating a focus on automation and testing within the VMware infrastructure context. The user demonstrated skills in the context of using Ansible to manage VMware environments.
pythonesxiansible-collectionvcenternetwork-automation
fusioninventory/fusioninventory-for-glpi
May 2011 - Oct 2013
FusionInventory plugin for GLPI
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:292 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gonéri implemented changes related to applying protocol changes between the agent and server by utilizing full parameter names instead of single-letter abbreviations in the `inc/job.class.php` and `rest/index.php` files. They also integrated updates from the `matsimon/master` branch, incorporating changes to the front-end JavaScript file (`js/package_action.front.php`), and removed an unused column in the database structure file (`install/mysql/plugin_fusinvdeploy-2.3.0-1-empty.sql`). Further, they added a translation string in `locales/en_GB.php`.
inventorysnmpsoftware-inventorydiscovery-networkscmdb
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