Philippe Pepiot
Software & System Engineer at Lowatt
Toulouse, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe Pepiot is a pragmatic software and system engineer with 17 years of experience building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and production-grade Python services. Based in Toulouse, he combines deep systems knowledge (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux, TCP/IP, VPNs, virtualization and cloud stacks like Kubernetes/OpenStack) with strong backend development and PostgreSQL expertise. He is the author of Testinfra and an active open-source contributor to projects such as asv, Pelican and FreeBSD/pkg, often improving security, testing and benchmarking workflows. Philippe favors TDD and PEP 20-compliant Python, and brings hands-on experience automating deployments and monitoring large systems with tools like Salt, Ansible, Jenkins and Nagios. An interesting detail: he has applied OpenBSD-style privilege separation to harden network code in real-world VPN projects, showing a focus on secure, operationally resilient design.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Mathématiques, Licence, Mathématiques at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
Github Skills (37)
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c-programming10
c1110
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markdown-it10
mercurial10
static-site-generation10
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scripting9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pytest-dev/pytest-testinfra
Mar 2015 - Dec 2022
Testinfra test your infrastructures
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 62 reviews, 536 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the test infrastructure project. They made significant contributions to the project's test suite by addressing broken links and adding new tests. Additionally, the user enhanced the project's capabilities by implementing support for more backends such as 'alpine' and refactoring the code to improve test reliability.
pythonpytest-plugintesting-toolstdddocker
airspeed-velocity/asv
Mar 2016 - May 2018
Airspeed Velocity: A simple Python benchmarking tool with web-based reporting
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 25 PRs, 55 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the `asv` project by addressing issues related to Mercurial integration and improving the benchmarking workflow. Their work included fixing bugs in Mercurial plugin, modifying the handling of branches and commit ranges, and implementing features to improve the accuracy of benchmark results. They also refactored parts of the code, optimized the web UI, and refactored benchmark code to streamline the process of running and publishing benchmarks.
pythonbenchmarkingreportingweb-basedbenchmark
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