Pierre-yves Chibon
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Fedora Project
Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre-yves Chibon is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience blending open-source stewardship, backend engineering, and DevOps to keep Fedora releases running smoothly. A former farmer and trained bioinformatician, he brings a data-driven mindset to community health and release engineering, often mining metrics to understand Fedora’s evolution. At Red Hat he combines product ownership for vehicle containerization with hands-on improvements to core Fedora infrastructure like Bodhi, enhancing testability and CI/CD. His open-source work spans UI and backend contributions—ranging from Subsurface dive-log UX improvements to tooling he built for Fedora (pkgdb-cli, gitsync, pypi2spec)—demonstrating both usability focus and systems-level reliability. Based in Brittany, France, he pairs deep technical craft with community-centric product thinking and a knack for turning operational complexity into repeatable, testable workflows.
16 years of coding experience
Msc, Bioinformatics, Ingénieur, Agriculture food science and related industry, Msc, Bioinformatics, Ingénieur, Agriculture food science and related industry at Wageningen University & Research
English, French
Github Skills (23)
fedora10
python10
testing10
c1110
cicd10
c1710
gtk10
front-end-development10
automated-tests10
print9
printing9
git-repository9
gps9
devops9
repo-management9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fedora-infra/bodhi
Dec 2011 - Oct 2020
Bodhi is a web-system that facilitates the process of publishing updates for a Fedora-based software distribution.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 150 commits, 91 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pierre-yves primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and testability of the `bodhi` project, a system for publishing updates. Their commits demonstrate an emphasis on integrating faitout (likely a testing database) and sqlite for testing purposes. They also streamlined the build and release process using CI/CD configurations with Jenkins and a focus on testing the integration between Greenwave (test gating) and Bodhi.
distributionpublishingpythonrpmsoftware-distribution
subsurface/subsurface
Jul 2012 - Dec 2013
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Pierre-yves primarily contributed to the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Subsurface diving log program. Their commits focused on enhancing the user experience through improvements to the save/quit workflow, adding a "Save As" option to the file menu, and refactoring the printing functionality to allow for table-based dive summaries. Furthermore, they introduced a GPS location tool for the dives with the use of an OSM-GPS-MAP library, allowing the user to see the dive locations in a map view. The changes suggest a focus on usability and feature enhancements within the application's core functionality.
pythonsubsurfaceupstream
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