About Théo Penavaire

I’m Théo Penavaire, a freelance CI/CD, test automation and platform consultant. I help engineering teams deliver software faster and safer: slow CI, flaky tests, developer productivity, and AI agents in the pipeline (where they help).

I help any team looking for a DevOps consultant, specifically to work on everything from commit to release: the CI/CD pipeline, the verification (tests) and the platform engineering work around these.

For six years I worked at Unity, in a remote-first, international team, in the Engine organisation that builds the Unity runtime and editor. I kept the graphics test suite running on more than 20 platforms, moved a large codebase into the engine monorepo without stopping development, and made test runs faster without losing coverage.

Before Unity, I worked on the management software for virtual reality venues at VR Connection. I studied at Epitech in Paris, with an exchange year at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.

In 2026 I went freelance. I lived in Paris for 30 years and now operate from Norway.

Languages

French 🇫🇷 and English 🇬🇧, both at native level. Spanish 🇪🇸 at an intermediate level (B1), Norwegian 🇳🇴 at an elementary level (A2).

Outside work

I write on this blog about CI, test automation and a few other things. I build small tools: Monfil, a feed reader, and Flow Town, a map of Enablement Engineering.

I like to lift weights and run: I recently finished the Paris marathon in 3 hours 48.

On my bookshelf

• The Mythical Man-Month
• Accelerate (DORA)
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Software Engineering at Google
• Site Reliability Engineering (Google SRE)