René Ribaud
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Voreppe, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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SeniorRené Ribaud is a seasoned software engineer and DevOps-savvy solution architect with 20+ years of experience building and automating Unix, cloud and storage platforms, now shaping OpenStack Nova as a Red Hat engineer and release lead. He blends deep infrastructure roots—from HP-era UNIX and SAN projects to designing IaC on AWS/Azure—with hands-on DevOps delivery (Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab) and demonstrable impact in large energy and banking customers. An active open-source contributor, René has improved OpenStack compute APIs and contributed backend and telemetry enhancements to sustainability-focused projects like scaphandre. Known for rapid adaptability and a pragmatic consulting style, he pairs technical leadership with mentoring and community building (FLOSS events, local meetups). A curious self-learner, he routinely scouts bleeding-edge cloud-native and CI/CD technologies to craft original, production-ready prototypes and demos.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (22)
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
exporter10
openstack10
api10
rest-api10
exports10
rust10
bash9
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
devops9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hubblo-org/scaphandre
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
⚡ Energy consumption metrology agent. Let "scaph" dive and bring back the metrics that will help you make your systems and applications more sustainable !
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 69 commits, 25 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:René made various contributions to the `scaphandre` project, a tool focused on energy consumption metrology. They fixed typos, added options to the stdout exporter, and made the `init.sh` script more robust. They also implemented new measures, refactored the code, and added mTLS configurations for the Riemann exporter. These efforts spanned both backend logic and DevOps-related tasks, suggesting involvement in feature enhancements and operational improvements.
vagrantfileenergy-consumptionesxicryptanalysiswattmeter
openstack/nova
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:René's contributions focused on the compute API and REST API components within the OpenStack Nova project. The user implemented changes to the API to allow unshelving a server to a specific host, incorporating related blueprint implementations. This involved modifications to both the compute API and the REST API, along with corresponding functional tests. The user also made database schema updates to support the virtiofs file system shares, and added supporting tests and documentation.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
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