Solène Rapenne
DevOps Architect at Lambda Solène
France
Summary
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Top SchoolSolène Rapenne is a DevOps Architect and freelance DevSecOps engineer based in France with over a decade of professional experience and two decades of hands-on work with Linux and niche open-source OSes like OpenBSD, NixOS and Qubes OS. She blends deep systems-level expertise—contributions to projects such as the Nix package manager and OpenBSD ports—with practical delivery: designing high-availability multi-datacenter infrastructure, building a CDN with WAF, and teaching teams Salt/Rex and Nix tooling. A proven consultant and technical writer, she also secured EU funding for an SBOM generator and documents privacy/security guidance for end users. Colleagues rely on her as a "Swiss army knife" who moves between deep kernel-adjacent fixes and higher-level DevOps architecture, and her ongoing open-source work reveals a commitment to reproducible, secure tooling that isn’t obvious from titles alone.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Institution chaumontaise OudinotLicence professionnelle, Computer Science, Licence professionnelle, Computer Science at Université de Bourgogne
English, French
Github Skills (40)
filesystem10
c-language10
system-programming10
package-management10
nix10
scripting10
configuration-management10
c1110
openbsd10
c1710
kernel10
system-calls10
automation10
script10
kernel-mode10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
openbsd/ports
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:419 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Solène primarily contributed to the OpenBSD ports repository, focusing on package management and updates. Their work includes registering the removal of software packages like mailpile and boar, and incorporating new versions of existing packages, specifically mautrix-whatsapp and nushell. The user's contributions mainly involve modifying files related to package definitions and build configurations.
mailing-listlibgit2mailingportspull-requests
NixOS/nix
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Solène contributed to the Nix package manager by implementing features, improving documentation, and fixing minor issues. Their work included adding a configuration option for download speed limits and integrating the ccache build tool. The user also modified documentation to improve clarity and corrected links. Furthermore, they addressed warnings and refactored code related to trusted settings.
functional-programmingnixosdeclarative-languagec-plus-pluspackage-manager
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