About me
Security engineer at the leading cloud company, automating pentests and security reviews across its services, with deep DevOps experience on high-availability systems.
My areas of expertise include:
- Solving hard problems, e.g.
- Fixed a FreeBSD kernel panic 152250
- Doubled on a critical service Linux host throughput from 400k to 800k packets per second
- Administration of high-availability systems
- Building high-volume processing pipelines with Python.
- C development (listed among CFEngine authors)
- Operating system internals, down to the kernel level, for performance tuning and issue resolution
- Expert Linux/FreeBSD system administration
Certifications:
- OffSec Certified Professional+ (OSCP+) link
- GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT) 98% score link
- Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Amazon AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- BSD certification link
- ITIL v3 Foundation
To keep my skills sharp, I’ve been self-hosting my personal services on a dedicated server for over 15 years:
- AWS, FreeBSD and Linux systems (this website is hosted on Route53/S3/CloudFront)
- Virtualization/containers: from Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, FreeBSD jails to Proxmox and Docker / docker-compose stack.
- Configuration management including Ansible and CFEngine
- Provisioning tools including Packer, Terraform
Books
- Technical reviewer for the O’Reilly book C in a nutshell
- Technical reviewer for the O’Reilly book Introducing Python (endorsement on back cover)
- Technical reviewer for the O’Reilly book Learning CFEngine 3 (3rd edition)
Opensource contributions
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Ubuntu developer (MOTU) for 2 years
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Various patchs to opensource software - patchs
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Minors patchs accepted in the Linux kernel (for the The Eudyptula Challenge )
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MacPorts: ports I own
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FreeBSD: ports I own, patchs (1 patch to fix a kernel panic)
Contact
- Email: loic @ this domain
- GPG key 0xABA6DBF063D695A6