Loic Avenel
Senior Principal Product Manager Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLoic Avenel is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat with 11 years of product leadership focused on automation, cloud adoption, and open source-driven innovation. He has progressed through technical and field product roles at Red Hat, shaping Ansible Automation Platform and Kubernetes/ACM product strategies while bridging engineering, field teams, and customer adoption. Prior to Red Hat he led product marketing and technical enablement across HP and Novadigm, bringing deep experience in configuration management and enterprise automation. Based in Paris, he combines engineering training with a pragmatic go-to-market mindset to scale automation to the masses and explore generative AI use cases. Colleagues know him for translating complex platform capabilities into field-ready offerings and for driving cross-functional alignment in large distributed organizations. A detail that often surprises peers: his career roots span hands-on pre-sales and technical consulting, giving him rare empathy for both customer ops and product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG Engineering Science, DEUG Engineering Science at University of Rouen (France)Ingenieur Electronique and Computer Science, Ingenieur Electronique and Computer Science at Polytech Nantes
French, English
Github Skills (73)
origami10
vsphere10
vagrantfile10
opal10
ruby10
ovirt10
gcp10
google-cloud10
vms10
cdr10
itil10
ansible10
management10
azure10
linode10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mdelder/k8s-pacman-app
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes in 8 days
Loicavenel/ansible
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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