Mehdi Abaakouk
Co-founder And CTO at tetaneutral.net
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolMehdi Abaakouk is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO with 24 years building resilient cloud and infrastructure software from startup automation (Mergify) to carrier-grade open source projects. He combines deep systems and DevOps expertise—running a 14-node OpenStack+Ceph cluster, high-availability mail systems, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and network automation for a non-profit ISP—with hands-on product engineering in Python, Kubernetes and cloud APIs. A longtime OpenStack core contributor at Red Hat, he has driven storage, telemetry and messaging components and contributed C/Cython bindings and CI automation for production-grade releases. Mehdi is also an active open-source maintainer on projects like NeoMutt (IMAP/SMTP auth, OAuth2 and memory/error fixes) and creator of neomutt tooling, showing a rare blend of low-level protocol work and product-facing services. Based in Toulouse, he pairs pragmatic engineering with community leadership and still finds time to donate blood, climb mountains and swing dance, reflecting disciplined stamina and collaborative energy.
23 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at DUT Informatique de Nice Sophia AntipolisIngénieur Informatique, Ingénieur Informatique at Ingénieur du CNAM (en cours)
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
smtpd10
c1110
smtp10
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imap10
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memory-management9
debugging9
user-authentication8
authentication8
gpgme8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
neomutt/neomutt
Apr 2012 - Jan 2023
✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 releases, 832 reviews, 6187 commits in 10 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mehdi's contributions focused on the back-end functionality of the NeoMutt email client. Their work involved implementing features related to IMAP and SMTP authentication, including the handling of OAuth2 and authentication mechanisms. The user also made improvements to error handling, fixed memory leaks, and updated the code for improved performance. Furthermore, they addressed bugs in message header processing and enhanced overall code tidiness and documentation.
notmuchpop3ncursesirc-serverimap
neomutt/neomutt-test-files
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Files and directories for NeoMutt's build test
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
directoriesneomutt
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