Thomas VIAL
Engineering Manager at Director, SW Engineering TAG Heuer - Connected Watch
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarThomas VIAL is an Engineering Manager based in Paris with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating reliable production systems. He brings a strong DevOps orientation—evidenced by substantive contributions to the widely used docker-mailserver project where he improved Postfix/Dovecot configuration, SSL/Let's Encrypt integration, and daemon management for production readiness. Thomas balances technical leadership with practitioner instincts, mentoring teams while still diving into configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting. Outside of work he’s creatively engaged as a musician and an FPV pilot, hobbies that reflect a blend of precision and risk-taking that he applies to engineering decisions.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
automation10
docker10
automations10
ssl10
dovecot10
dockers10
postfix-notation10
post10
system-administration9
fail2ban8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
anti-spam7
antivirus6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver
Mar 2015 - Jun 2022
Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 360 commits, 298 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the configuration and setup of the docker-mailserver project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on configuring services, including Postfix, Dovecot, and Spamassassin, along with setting up SSL certificates, and integrating Let's Encrypt. The user also made changes to the project's overall structure and daemon management, ensuring a production-ready mail server environment. The contributions include enabling various features and fixing issues related to the server's operation.
production-readydovecotantivirusproductionimap
tomav/docker-behat
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
ansiblebehatdockerdepencies
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