Timothée Ravier
CoreOS Co-Team Lead at l'INSA Centre Val de Loire
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolTimothée Ravier is a seasoned CoreOS co-team lead at Red Hat with 14 years of experience building and validating cloud-native, immutable infrastructure and container platforms. He combines deep systems expertise—Kubernetes, rpm-ostree, Ignition, KVM/QEMU, SELinux and distro-level work on Fedora CoreOS/Silverblue—with hands-on Rust and Go development and CI/CD automation. An active open-source maintainer and KDE contributor based in Paris, he has practical experience hardening desktop and server interactions and improving test stability across large projects like rpm-ostree and minikube. He also teaches cloud infrastructure security at INSA-CVL, blending research-minded rigor with production delivery. Notably, his contributions traverse both low-level build tooling and high-level orchestration, including adding features, fixing Rust clippy issues, and stabilizing flaky test suites.
14 years of coding experience
Lycée Claude Fauriel, Classe préparatoire (MP)Baccalauréat, Baccalauréat at Lycée Claude Fauriel, BaccalauréatBachelor, Bachelor at Ecole nationale supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges
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Github Skills (40)
fedora-coreos10
kubernetes10
fedora10
docker10
testing10
bash10
build-system10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
package-manager-tool10
automation10
go10
ostree10
build-automation10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-assembler
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Tooling container to assemble CoreOS-like systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:175 reviews, 106 commits, 79 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Timothée's commits focus on modifying Ignition configuration files to support various test scenarios within the CoreOS assembler project. They've added and modified Ignition configurations for different tests, including those related to FIPS, LUKS, and CRI-O, to ensure compatibility with Ignition spec 3 and, in some cases, translate to Ignition spec 2. The user demonstrates proficiency in modifying existing testing frameworks, updating configurations to align with evolving release changes, and improving testing coverage through the creation of new configurations. This work centers on build system and testing automation, specifically related to CoreOS-like systems.
containerscoreosbuildsystemdockerassemble
coreos/rpm-ostree
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:110 reviews, 43 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Timothée contributed to the `rpm-ostree` project by addressing a bug related to quoting environment variables in the `os-release` file, demonstrating an understanding of build processes. They also fixed multiple clippy warnings in the Rust code, suggesting involvement in code quality and maintenance. Further contributions included adding support for the "DNF Count Me" feature, which involved modifications to the project's build and configuration.
debcentosrpmpackage-managerhybrid-image
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