Xavier Antoviaque
Founder And CEO at OpenCraft
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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RockstarXavier Antoviaque is a founder and CEO with 15 years of technical and operational experience building and scaling Open edX deployments through his company OpenCraft. He combines hands-on Python/Django and DevOps expertise—evidenced by work migrating Open edX services to supervisor in a prominent openedx-unsupported repository—with product-focused delivery for clients such as Harvard and national MOOC platforms. His background spans freelance full‑stack development, community and moderation leadership for large online games, and successful grassroots campaigns that mobilized significant funding for open-source projects. Based in Annecy, France, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with practical engineering, favoring maintainable, community-minded contributions to open-source ecosystems. Notably, he pairs customer-facing project management and agile practices with deep technical involvement in deployment, customization, and automated configuration.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
configuration-management10
supervisord10
dockers10
sup10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
python9
yaml9
gunicorn8
rabbitmq7
django7
mongodb6
nodejs6
meteor6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on configuring and migrating services within the `openedx-unsupported/configuration` repository to use `supervisor` for process management. They refactored existing configuration files to align with the `supervisor` format and introduced environment variables for better customization, particularly for `xqueue`, `ora` and `xserver` services. The user also enhanced configuration files by adding extra variables to environment configurations and modifying file access privileges.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
antoviaque/plebia-configuration
Dec 2015 - Aug 2021
Plebia ansible configuration
Contributions:2 PRs, 143 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
ansible
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