Hey! 👋

My name is Robin Candau (also known as Antiz).
I’m a French Linux systems & DevOps engineer passionate about music, cycling, skateboarding and the Linux ecosystem!

I’m interested in Linux system development, packaging, infrastructure, reproducible builds and supply chain security.

I’m primarily involved in Arch Linux, fulfilling multiple roles within the Arch Linux Staff, but I also contribute to Reproducible Builds and Alpine Linux (see below for details).

This website serves as a central place to share general information about me and my work, as well as publishing some blog posts when I feel like it.

Projects

As an open source enthusiast, I contribute to many open source projects and I’m always willing to help, share and learn in the process!
The main projects I actively contribute to are:

Arch Linux

Arch Linux is a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that focuses on simplicity, modernity, pragmatism, user centrality and versatility.

• Package Maintainer: As part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainers, I contribute to the development of the distribution by maintaining packages in Arch’s official repositories.

• DevOps: As part of the DevOps team, I contribute to the maintenance of the Arch Linux infrastructure.

• WSL image maintainer: I maintain the official Arch Linux WSL image.

• Testing team member and coordinator: As a testing team member, I test & verify packages submitted to the Arch Linux testing repositories before they get promoted to the stable ones. I’m also in charge of on-boarding new testing team members.

• AUR Package maintainer and moderator: In addition of maintaining packages in the official repositories, I’m also maintaining some packages in the AUR (a community-driven repository maintained by Arch users) and I participate to its moderation.

• Various other contributions: I’m also contributing to numerous other parts of the Arch Linux project as whole, such as some of our tools (e.g. pacman-contrib, devtools / pkgctl, archlinux-contrib), reproducible builds, Arch Wiki, submitting RFCs, interacting with the community…

Reproducible Builds

Reproducible Builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code.

• Contributor: I regularly submit upstream and downstream patches in regards to Reproducible Builds, some of them being covered in reproducible-builds.org’s monthly news.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

• Packaging: I maintain some packages in Alpine Linux repositories. I also maintain Alpine Linux packaging tooling related packages in Arch Linux repositories, allowing to build and maintain Alpine Linux packages directly from an Arch Linux system.

Arch-Update

Arch-Update is an update notifier & applier for Arch Linux that assists you with important pre / post update tasks.

• Developer / Maintainer: Arch-Update is one of the Open Source projects I develop and maintain over on GitHub.