Mathieu Sauve-frankel
Senior Platform Engineer
Nara, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMathieu Sauve-frankel is a Senior Platform Engineer with 17 years of experience building and securing UNIX-centric infrastructure, currently based in Nara, Japan. He combines deep OpenBSD and IPSec expertise with hands-on work in routing, firewalling, and configuration management to keep large-scale systems resilient and secure. His career spans roles at Fastly, Qualcomm, and Woven Planet, where he focused on operations automation, release engineering, and site reliability at production scale. An active open-source contributor, Mathieu has improved widely used Chef projects (ohai, chef, apt) by adding unattended-upgrades, cross-OS plugin parity, and robust service providers and tests—work that directly streamlines patching and service management for operators. Known for practical, low-level skills honed as an OpenBSD ports developer, he blends systems craftsmanship with pragmatic automation to reduce toil. Outside the obvious, he’s also the founder of a security conference, reflecting a long-standing commitment to the security community.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at MIND High SchoolCertificate of Secondary Studies, Certificate of Secondary Studies at M.I.N.D High School
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
cookbook10
oai10
freebsd10
testing10
service-management10
configuration-management10
openbsd10
ruby10
erb10
chef-client10
automation10
apt10
test-integration10
chef-solo10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/apt
Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
Development repository for the apt cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily focused on developing and integrating unattended-upgrades functionality within the apt cookbook. Their contributions involved creating and modifying configuration files, templates, and attributes to enable automated package upgrades. They also addressed compatibility issues and incorporated features like configurable allowed origins, package blacklisting, and automatic reboot options, enhancing the cookbook's usability and configurability for system administrators. This work streamlined system maintenance and improved security through automated patching.
cookbookchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformaptchef
chef/chef
Aug 2009 - Jan 2016
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by adding and modifying service providers, specifically focusing on the `simple` and `init` service providers. Their work involved implementing methods for starting, stopping, restarting, and reloading services, along with incorporating support for status commands. The user also refactored and improved existing provider code, ensuring functionality and addressing issues related to loading resources. These changes demonstrate a solid understanding of service management within an infrastructure automation context.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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