Renaud Chaput
Technical Director at Les Ombres du Trône
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRenaud Chaput is a Technical Director and seasoned infrastructure engineer with 18 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems from Paris. He co-founded Notos and now shapes technical direction at Mastodon, where he has driven contributor experience improvements and architected the flagship instance mastodon.social. His background spans hands-on roles from systems and network engineering through Director/Head of Infrastructure at Fotolia and Adobe, with deep expertise in Linux/FreeBSD, Chef, Kubernetes, storage and networking. An active open-source contributor, he has optimized Mastodon’s front-end performance and deployment (including image/SVG handling and standalone Docker builds) and contributed robustness fixes to Chef Infra. Comfortable switching between strategic leadership and low-level engineering, he also runs consulting work, organizes SysadminDays, and brings practical experience across AWS/GCP, monitoring and DevOps toolchains. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that keep complex codebases maintainable while scaling to millions of users.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PSI*, Mathematics, Physics, Mecanics, Chemistry, English, PSI*, Mathematics, Physics, Mecanics, Chemistry, English at Lycée RooseveltIngénieur, Computers, Networking, Mathematics, Ingénieur, Computers, Networking, Mathematics at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'EntrepriseBaccalauréat S - Option SI, Baccalauréat S - Option SI at Lycée Godard Roger
English, French
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
image-optimization10
nextjs10
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
cgm10
automations10
devops10
react10
dockers9
ruby9
docker9
svg9
css8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/joinmastodon
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The official Mastodon project homepage
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 6 commits, 90 PRs in 24 days
Contributions summary:Renaud focused on improving the image loading and caching performance of the Mastodon project's homepage. Their contributions involved removing the `react-inlinesvg` library and replacing it with `next/image` or SVGr for efficient SVG handling and caching. Additionally, the user addressed lint warnings, fixed duplicate keys, and ensured proper caching of font files. They also modified the build process to create a standalone Docker image for optimized deployment.
mastodonmastodon-api
chef/chef
Feb 2010 - May 2012
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Renaud's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Chef Infra platform. Their work involved adding options for PID file management to various components like `chef-solr`, `chef-solr-indexer`, and `chef-client`. They also addressed issues related to Knife output formatting and directory changes, and implemented changes to display FQDN in the status. Furthermore, they contributed to FreeBSD package management improvements by employing `make -f` for package installations.
automationchef-infrachefdevopscfgmgt
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