I’m Mehdi Abaakouk, I live in Toulouse (France) and I have been using Linux for more than twenty years.

I co-founded and run Mergify, a GitHub service around automation, and also setup and maintain the infrastructure of tetaneutral.net.

I worked as Senior DevOps Engineer and Senior Software Engineer for Jolibrain, Wazo, Qovery, Red Hat, eNovance , Capgemini, DGAC, CNES and GFI.

My main interests in computer science are opensource software and how Internet works under the hood, and I really like to hack them.

Here is a quick list of my contribution to the opensource world:

• The engine and website of Mergify ^{Python, Redis, Postgresql, gunicorn, ReactJS, Nginx, Heroku, Sentry, Datadog}
• metadata extraction of the Collectd libvirt plugin ^C
• libvirt network interface statistics retrieval for openvswitch ^C
• neomutt, a text based mail client ^C
• Core developer of Gnocchi, Metric as a Service: multi-tenant timeseries, metrics and resources database ^{Python, Ceph, Redis, Postgresql, Mysql}
• CheckMK fastchecker that removes overhead of loading python runtime on each CheckMK check run ^Python
• Openstack where I am Core developer of the Ceilometer, Aodh, Tooz, Oslo.messaging and all many other bricks of Openstack ecosystem ^{Python, Mysql, Postgresql, Rabbitmq, Redis, Kafka}
• Grafana Gnocchi datasource plugin ^{Javascript, Angular}
• Pastamaker a Github Gating Bot on top of Travis-CI, Github Pull Request and Github Branch protection system ^{Python, Redis, Javascript, Angular, Heroku}
• A bunch of Python libraries: git-pull-request, daiquiri, cotyledon, pifpaf, … ^{Python, Cython} cradox,
• Ceph librados and libcephfs Python binding in C with Cython ^{C, Cython}
• Official Red Hat Openstack Packaging ^{.rpm Packaging}
• Official Debian Packaging ^{.deb packaging}
• Disc-air a tools to graph a L2 network (started 2015) ^Python
• Neutron routed-plugin OpenStack plugin to provide L3 routing only ^Python
• Bird-LG a BGP looking glass for bird written in python/flask ^{Python/JQuery}
• Listen a music player/manager for GNOME written in python/gtk/gstreamer (2005-2012) ^{Python/GTK/Gstreamer}
• Seeks a social and collaborative search engine , I make the debian and ubuntu packages (2009-2012) ^C++
• Lullaby a android client for ampache (2010-2012) ^Java/Android
• CyanogenMod/Lineageos a Android alternative OS for mobile, I have ported some CyanogenMod fonctionnalities from version 4 to 5, 6 and 7 (2009-2010) ^{C/Linux kernel/Java/Android}
• Gmixer a audio mixer in python/gtk (2008) ^Python

For the Internet part, I’m involved in a French Associative Internet Service Provider and Host Provider: tetaneutral.net

In this context, since 2010, I have set up and maintained:

• an OpenStack cluster of 14 nodes using Kvm for the virtualisation (~180 instances), Ceph for the storage (~100To), and a custom network plugins that uses iBGP mesh network to route public ips across the cluster with Bird.
• that has replaced an old cluster of 6 nodes built with ganeti.
• a mailserver system with 3 HA/replicated nodes using Dovecot and Postfix
• an infrastructure supervision with CheckMK and cmk_fastchecker
• an monitoring platform using Prometheus and Grafana
• some tools like Bird-LG for our looking glass
• or disc-air to map our network
• and everything automated with Puppet and/or Ansible
• and backuped with Borg

I’m taking charge if the regular system administration tasks too.

And also I like to dance on crazy swing rhythm 😁