Leo Unbekandt
CTO at Scalingo
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Unbekandt is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently leading the technical and infrastructure strategy at Scalingo. Based in Strasbourg, he blends hands-on engineering with operational rigor—contributing to open-source projects such as docker cookbooks and a Sidekiq-compatible Go workers library where he improved scheduling and fixed concurrency bugs. His background spans research-grade IaaS and batch-scheduling integration as well as early GUI and systems work, reflecting fluency across DevOps, backend systems, and platform engineering. Educated in France and the UK (ENSIIE, Cranfield), he pairs academic grounding with practical startup execution and a knack for surfacing subtle reliability fixes that scale in production.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'EntrepriseDUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg III)Master of Science (MSc), Ingénierie informatique, 80/100, Master of Science (MSc), Ingénierie informatique, 80/100 at Cranfield University
Github Skills (16)
concurrency10
scheduling10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
docker10
go10
redis10
dockers10
ruby10
terraform9
terraformer9
json9
cookbook9
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jrallison/go-workers
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015
Sidekiq compatible background workers in golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Leo primarily focused on enhancing the `go-workers` library, which provides background worker functionality. Their contributions involved implementing new features such as `EnqueueIn` and `EnqueueAt` for scheduled jobs. The user also addressed critical data race issues within the worker's fetching and management mechanisms, improving the library's reliability. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate a refinement of the scheduling precision, aligning the library with Sidekiq's approach.
golangsidekiqworkersbackground
sous-chefs/docker
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Development repository for the docker cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Leo contributed to the `docker` cookbook, focusing on improving its functionality and configuration options. They implemented a new `userland-proxy` flag and corrected the definition of the `ip_forward` flag. Additionally, they removed default flags for `--log-level` and fixed an issue with the `parsed_storage_driver` method. Finally, they updated the code to use `Gem::Version` for semantic versioning.
cookbookdockerchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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