Loïc Carr
Senior Software Engineer at Telecom Bretagne
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLoïc Carr is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating highly scalable systems, currently advancing adaptive learning infrastructure at ALEKS and now at Amazon. He combines deep DevOps and backend expertise—rooted in a Master's from IMT-Atlantique—with hands-on experience designing storage scaling, reliability testing, and real-time monitoring stacks at Scaleway. Loïc contributes to prominent open-source tooling like HashiCorp Packer, improving platform integration (Scaleway builder) with SSH agent and password auth enhancements that streamline image builds. Comfortable across systems, storage, and developer tooling, he has also delivered cross-language integrations (VLC/Electron) and led a campus-wide student network, showing both engineering depth and operational leadership. Based in Seattle, he thrives at the intersection of production reliability and developer experience, often focusing on pragmatic improvements that unlock smoother infrastructure workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at IMT AtlantiqueUndergraduate, Mathematics, Undergraduate, Mathematics at Lycée Michelet
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
packer10
go10
ssh10
build-automation9
devops9
cloud-services8
cloud-infrastructure8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Loïc primarily focused on enhancing the `scaleway` builder within the Packer project. Their contributions involved adding support for SSH agent authentication and password-based authentication. Additionally, they implemented updates to utilize the `NewRunnerWithPauseFn` function for improved build management and bumped project dependencies. The user's work directly impacts the functionality and integration capabilities of Packer, specifically concerning the Scaleway platform.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
dimtion/Shaarli
Apr 2015 - Oct 2020
The personal, minimalist, super-fast, no-database delicious clone - community repo
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
super-fastno-databaseminimalistdeliciousdatabase
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