Jean Gabès
Staff Engineer at Contentsquare
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJean Gabès is a Staff Engineer and former CTO/CEO with 15 years of experience uniting Dev and Ops to deliver reliable, scalable systems, primarily in Python and Linux. He founded and ran Shinken Solutions for a decade, shipping an enterprise monitoring platform used by large customers and contributing to open-source monitoring projects like Shinken and Thruk. Comfortable moving between hands-on backend work, cloud cost and latency optimizations, and long-term product strategy, he excels at taking technical height to solve complex operational problems. A natural mentor and system thinker, he has led teams through startup growth, CI integrations, and multi-datacenter performance improvements. Based in Bordeaux, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep production expertise and a curiosity that once made him consider a pivot into quantum research.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
+5, Informatique, +5, Informatique at ENSEIRB-MATMECA
Github Skills (14)
monitoring10
nagios10
icinga10
backend10
perl10
python10
back-end-development10
code-cleanup9
debug9
maintenance9
web-development9
configuration-management9
debugging9
webui8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shinken-solutions/shinken
Aug 2010 - Nov 2022
Flexible and scalable monitoring framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 2379 commits, 89 PRs in 12 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jean primarily contributed to the Shinken monitoring framework by addressing bugs and improving the existing code. They made fixes related to incorrect parameter handling in modules, and introduced code enhancements for the webui interface. The user also addressed issues related to timeperiod parsing and other critical functionality, such as improving the overall reliability of the system. The user demonstrated an understanding of the framework's core components and configuration.
scalablemonitoring-frameworkmetricsmonitoringflexible
sni/thruk
Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Jean primarily contributed to the development of a plugin for problem/impact analysis within the Thruk monitoring web interface. Their work involved modifying existing Perl code to correctly display host and service problems, incorporating the concept of "criticity" for prioritization, and adding links to related information. The user also integrated Livestatus for backend data, and modified the backend provider to include new columns, for displaying the information. Furthermore, the user added business views pages that allowed showing the business elements in a dedicated page.
apiicingalivestatuswebinterfacenagios
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