About Horgix

Alexis “Horgix” Chotard is a french systems and software engineer currently working at Xebia.

Biography

The politically correct one

With a software engineering background, and experiences more inclined toward systems and infrastructure, he naturally finds himself at home around “DevOps” topics.

Horgix is eager to automate everything he can and currently loves working on various topics such as continuous integration and deployment, or design of dynamic architectures and applications integration into these. He’s happy to face new challenges with the gain in popularity of containers and to look for evolutions of traditionnal workflows.

On his spare time, he also maintains a bunch of Arch Linux packages, contributes to Open Source projects and plays with Cloud Native solutions to be able to use them in real clients projects.

The unofficial version

I want to see everything automated, and I can’t get myself to accept not clean things. I want to automate everything, but I want to do it cleanly. No dirty and unmaintainable shell scripts. No documented processes because “I didn’t take the time to automate this”. I want my tools and my infrastructure to do what I want by themselves so I can sleep at night, answer people questions by pointing them to API calls and explaining them interesting things. I want to work on interesting problems such as distributed systems, architecture and low level performance and integration.

Speaker experience

You might have seen me speaking at some conferences, and if you didn’t you’ll find the videos below :)

DevOps REX - An Ops among the Devs : a feedback from both sides

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Xebicon’17 - How I automated Photobox’ incident management in 13h

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Cloud Native Paris Meetup - Dynamic Fluentd configuration in an immutable infrastructure context

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Modern infrastructure, automation, whales and stuff

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Misc