Raphaël Pinson

Current

Linux System Administrator at France Telecom
Developer at Ubuntu

Past

Blue Collar Internship at SNECMA
Fire Safety Officer at Euroguard
Surveillance Agent at Penauille

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Education

Ecole nationale supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique
Université de Poitiers
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

Lycée Blaise Pascal, Orsay

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Raphaël Pinson’s Summary

I have been working as a volunteer developer for Ubuntu and Kubuntu, making Debian software packages, triaging and fixing bugs, writing technical documentation, administrating machines.

I have also set my own project, Ichthux, with the same technical issues, in addition to project management.

In my current job, I supervise the technical side of the software deployment services for about 2000 Linux and Unix machines, including RedHat, Debian, OpenBSD and Solaris OSes. I have set a new deployment system, with a fully automated build farm (using buildd/wanna-build for the Debian side), an automated package repository (using reprepro for the Debian side) and an automated network installer (using FAI for the Debian side). I have been focusing on QA, writing tools to check the security of the package repository and measure deployment targets for internal tools on the machine pool.

I have also been involved in a few open-source projects, including:
* KDE
* array-info
* puppet
* augeas
* klik
* sword/bibletime
* FAI

Raphaël Pinson’s Specialties:

* Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat, etc.) and open-source software ;
* Debian/Ubuntu packaging and repository management ;
* Linux automated installation and configuration deployment (FAI, CFengine, Puppet) ;
* Debian GNU/Linux specialist ;
* Desktop Linux & LTSP ;
* Web technologies.

Raphaël Pinson’s Experience

Linux System Administrator

France Telecom

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FTE; Telecommunications industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Linux system administration, specialized in software and configuration deployment.

Working as a consultant at ORNESS for France Télécom.

- Administration of Cfengine, FAI and the software package repository ;
- Renewal of the whole deployment system, by setting an automated build farm for software packages (buildd/wanna-build for Debian), an automated repository (reprepro for Debian) and renewing the FAI system for automated networked installation and maintenance of the pool of machines (about 2000 machines on 3 sites) ;
- Management of the Gforge (collaborative development web interface) machine ;
- Wrote a test system implementing inter-dependency of tests to measure the deployment of infrastructure tools and security on the production machines ;
- Implemented Debian chdist into a proactive reporting system to monitor security updates on the package repository ;
- Project management.
Developer

Ubuntu

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

As a volunteer, core-developer for the Ubuntu project, focusing on Kubuntu, the KDE side of Ubuntu.

Work includes packaging new software (Debian packages), updating packages with new version of software, merging packages from Debian, reporting/triaging/fixing bugs, developing tools (REVU-tools), writing documentation, translating.

This work has given me the opportunity to give talks in several countries (Germany, Hungary).
Blue Collar Internship

SNECMA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

July 2004 — July 2004 (1 month)

As part of an internship, assembled and equilibrated CFM-56 turbo reactors for civil planes.
Fire Safety Officer

Euroguard

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

July 2002 — August 2002 (2 months)

Supervised an Alcatel research site
Tested and replaced fire and security facilities
Patrolled the site during night-time shifts
Dealt with admissions on the site
Surveillance Agent

Penauille

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Security and Investigations industry)

July 2001 — August 2001 (2 months)

Supervised the headquarters of the French Red Cross
Patrolled the building during night-time shifts
Dealt with admissions in the building

Raphaël Pinson’s Education

Ecole nationale supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique

Physics, Aeronautics, Combustion, Computer Sciences, Mechanics 2003 — 2005
Université de Poitiers

Licence , Mechanical engineering , 2003 — 2005
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

Medicine, Chemistry, Physics 2000 — 2002
Lycée Blaise Pascal, Orsay

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Raphaël Pinson’s Interests:

Music, Bible, IT, Linux, Languages, Linguistics, Genealogy, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ichthux, KDE, Hiking, Sailing, Golf, Climbing, Travels, Reading, Concerts