Nicolas Rouanet is a DevOps engineer based in Toulouse with 10 years of professional experience and over 20 years of hands-on Linux administration. He architects and automates cloud and bare-metal infrastructure—working with Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD, GitLab/GitHub CI and Kubernetes—and has supported internal platforms at companies like Scaleway and EasyMile. A longtime contributor to SaltStack, he has improved pip and apt package handling in a widely used open-source configuration management project. Skilled in networking, Debian packaging and VM/container orchestration, he also mentors teams and runs technical committees to promote best practices. Self-taught and curious, he pairs deep systems knowledge with practical developer support to make complex infrastructure reliably operable. Notably, outside IT he has a background as an award-winning miniature painter, reflecting meticulous craftsmanship and patience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, CCNA at IUT Mont-de-Marsan
DUT informatique, DUT informatique at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
CCNA Security, CCNA Security at INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas contributed to the SaltStack configuration management project by implementing and modifying functionalities within the `pip` and `aptpkg` modules. They added a function to list all available versions of a pip package. The user also modified existing code related to pip packages to check version requirements and compare versions using `pkg_resources.parse_version`. Additionally, they updated the `aptpkg` module to accept a list of key IDs for repository configuration.
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Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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