Louis-Philippe Véronneau - jobhttps://veronneau.org/2020-09-12T00:00:00-04:00Hire me!2020-09-12T00:00:00-04:002020-09-12T00:00:00-04:00Louis-Philippe Véronneautag:veronneau.org,2020-09-12:/hire-me.html<p>I'm happy to announce I handed out my Master's Thesis last Monday. I'm not
publishing the final copy just yet<sup id="fnref:promise"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:promise">1</a></sup>, as it still needs to go through
the approval committee. If everything goes well, I should have my <em>Master of
Economics</em> diploma before Christmas!</p>
<p>It sure hasn't been easy …</p><p>I'm happy to announce I handed out my Master's Thesis last Monday. I'm not
publishing the final copy just yet<sup id="fnref:promise"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:promise">1</a></sup>, as it still needs to go through
the approval committee. If everything goes well, I should have my <em>Master of
Economics</em> diploma before Christmas!</p>
<p>It sure hasn't been easy, and although I regret nothing, I'm also happy to be
done with university.</p>
<h2>Looking for a job</h2>
<p>What an odd time to be looking for a job, right? Turns out for the first time
in 12 years, I don't have an employer. It's oddly freeing, but also a little
scary. I'm certainly not bitter about it though and it's nice to have some time
on my hands to work on various projects and read things other than academic
papers. Look out for my next blog posts on using the <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/alphamax/netv2">NeTV2</a> as an OSHW HDMI
capture card, on hacking at security tokens and much more!</p>
<p>I'm not looking for anything long term (I'm hoping to teach Economics again next
Winter), but for the next few months, my calendar is wide open.</p>
<p>For the last 6 years, I worked as Linux system administrator, mostly using a
LAMP stack in conjunction with Puppet, Shell and Python. Although I'm most
comfortable with Puppet, I also have decent experience with Ansible, <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/ansible">thanks to
my work in the DebConf Videoteam</a>.</p>
<p>I'm not the most seasoned Debian Developer, but I have some experience
packaging Python applications and libraries. Although I'm no expert at it,
lately I've also been working on Clojure packages, as I'm trying to get Puppet
6 in Debian in time for the Bullseye freeze. At the rate it's going though, I
doubt we're going to make it...</p>
<p>If your company depends on Puppet and cares about having a version in Debian 11
that is maintained (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950182">Puppet 5 is EOL in November 2020</a>), I'm your guy!</p>
<p>Oh, and I guess I'm a soon-to-be <em>Master of Economics</em> specialising in Free and
Open Source Software business models and incentives theory. Not sure I'll ever
get paid putting that in application, but hey, who knows.</p>
<p>If any of that resonates with you, contact me and let's have a chat! I promise
I don't bite :)</p>
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<p>The title of the thesis is <em>What are the incentive structures of
Free Software? An economic analysis of Free Software's specific development
model</em>. Once the final copy is approved, I'll be sure to write a longer blog
post about my findings here. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:promise" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p>
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