Olivier Cervello
Founder And Security Engineer at FreeLabz
Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Cervello is a founder and security engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps automation, and penetration-testing tools for startups and enterprises. A former Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google, he shipped Terraform and SRE-focused open-source work (including contributions to GCP professional services and SLO tooling) and now runs FreeLabz providing security audits and bespoke cyber tools. His background spans FPGA cryptography, kernel-level energy-efficiency research, and hands-on DevOps—reflecting deep systems knowledge from hardware to Kubernetes and Prometheus monitoring. Fluent in French and English with international experience in Chicago and Paris, he combines technical rigor with an entrepreneurial mindset and a taste for continuous learning beyond standard security work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CPGE - Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles Mathematics Physics an Engineering Sciences, CPGE - Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles Mathematics Physics an Engineering Sciences at Lycée FaurielMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Ecole nationale supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses ApplicationsMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
French, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
django10
configuration-management10
bash10
environment-variables10
dockers10
terraform10
refactor10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/professional-services
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Common solutions and tools developed by Google Cloud's Professional Services team. This repository and its contents are not an officially supported Google product.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 147 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Olivier focused on making the `gsuite-exporter` a pip package by modifying the `stackdriver_exporter.py`, `cli.py`, and `auth.py` files. The changes involved refactoring the code to make it work with a pip package, and including modifications to the CLI and authentication processes. The user also updated and refactored the `base.py`, and the `reports.py` files.
google-cloudgoogle-cloud-platformgoogle-cloud-dataflowgoogle-cloud-mlgoogle-cloud-compute
openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 505 commits, 58 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Olivier's commits primarily involve configuring and updating the deployment process for the openfoodfacts-server repository. They modified configuration files, added environment variables, and updated deployment scripts within Docker containers. The commits demonstrate a focus on infrastructure changes and integration, along with some minor code adjustments such as fixing indentation.
cssdatabasejsperlpython
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