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Thibault Koechlin

Contributed extensively to the crowdsecurity/crowdsec-docs repository, delivering end-to-end documentation and deployment guidance for CrowdSec’s WAF, AppSec, and API integrations. Focused on improving onboarding, troubleshooting, and production readiness, the work included authoring configuration and scenario guides, clarifying error handling, and enhancing navigation and accessibility. Leveraged TypeScript, Markdown, and YAML to maintain documentation quality, integrate visuals, and ensure technical accuracy. Collaborated across teams to align documentation with product roadmaps, streamline deployment workflows, and support open source contributions. The approach emphasized maintainability, traceability, and user-centric clarity, resulting in faster adoption, reduced support friction, and improved security best practices for operators and developers.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

87Total
Bugs
0
Commits
87
Features
22
Lines of code
5,109
Activity Months13

Work History

February 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary: Focused on improving documentation accessibility and user onboarding for CrowdSec. Key feature delivered: CrowdSec Pronunciation Guide Documentation added to crowdsecurity/crowdsec-docs to enhance user understanding and accessibility. Major bugs fixed: None reported. Overall impact and accomplishments: Improved user understanding, onboarding efficiency, and documentation quality, contributing to better adoption and reduced support frictions. Technologies/skills demonstrated: documentation authoring, accessibility considerations, commit traceability, and collaboration across the CrowdSec docs repository.

January 2026

7 Commits • 3 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026: Delivered comprehensive API and WAF documentation enhancements across crowdsec-docs to improve developer onboarding, troubleshooting, and deployment workflows. Implemented clear guidance for Exploit Tracker API, CrowdSec Central 403 error handling and quotas, and WAF deployment, with targeted fixes and improved visuals.

December 2025

12 Commits • 5 Features

Dec 1, 2025

Month: 2025-12 — Focused on elevating CrowdSec documentation quality across Splunk SIEM integration, community plan constraints, hub contributions, and Live Exploit Tracker. Delivered comprehensive doc updates, clarified usage limits, and introduced a dedicated UI for CVEs, driving faster adoption and reducing support overhead.

November 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-11 highlighting delivered features, major fixes, impact, and skills demonstrated in the crowdsec-docs repository.

October 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025: Delivered focused documentation enhancements in the crowdsec-docs repository to improve developer onboarding and deployment workflows. Key features documented include the new ExtractQueryParam string helper and CrowdSec scenarios deployment guides. The work improves usability, reduces onboarding time, and supports faster integration by clarifying return behavior and providing usage examples; navigation was updated to surface deployment guides to streamline access to deployment steps.

September 2025

18 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

Month: 2025-09. This monthly summary highlights the delivery work in crowdsec/crowdsec-docs focused on CrowdSec WAF Advanced Deployment Strategies and Documentation Refresh. The effort consolidated deployment guidance for advanced WAF usage, integrated CRS/vPatch considerations, and updated AppSec rule deployment and testing documentation. The work improves security posture, accelerates user onboarding, and provides a consistent, testable deployment path for customers. No major feature regressions were introduced; the emphasis was on documentation quality, deployment guidance, and maintainability.

August 2025

19 Commits • 2 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 focused on delivering production-facing CrowdSec documentation that accelerates secure deployments and onboarding for WAF and AppSec. Key work delivered end-to-end guidance for deploying CrowdSec WAF as a reverse proxy with Nginx, including Security Engine integration and bouncer configuration, alongside targeted improvements to AppSec component documentation and quickstart flows. The work emphasized maintainability, testing, and ecosystem coherence, aligning with CRS integration and community bouncer support.

July 2025

6 Commits • 1 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025: Delivered a comprehensive CrowdSec Documentation Enhancements focused on configuration directories and troubleshooting in crowdsec-docs. Consolidated guidance covers configuration directories and files (main, acquisition, bouncers, collections, console, contexts, hub, credentials, parsers, scenarios, profiles), clarified notifications and WAF-related configuration, explained local hub mirror usage, and removed or updated outdated options. Reorganized troubleshooting sections to improve findability and user guidance. The work was implemented through six incremental commits, ensuring traceable changes and a maintainable documentation base.

May 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

Month: 2025-05 — Focused on improving Web Application Firewall documentation navigation in crowdsec-docs. Delivered labeling improvements in Docusaurus to clarify WAF docs and enhance discoverability. No major bugs fixed this month for this repository.

March 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025: Delivered targeted documentation updates in crowdsec-docs to deprecate the Cloudflare bouncer, explain the absence of active support due to Cloudflare API rate limits, and guide users to the Cloudflare Workers Bouncer. Added a direct link for easier navigation to Cloudflare integration information. The changes reduce user confusion, align with the product roadmap, and streamline onboarding for operators migrating away from deprecated components.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on crowdsec-docs work: features delivered, issues addressed, and overall impact.

December 2024

4 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for crowdsecurity/crowdsec-docs: Delivered targeted documentation enhancements around WAF-generated events, AppSec rule configurations, and scenario creation. Improvements included clarifications on in-band vs out-of-band rules, definitions like appsec-info log type, and practical examples to accelerate scenario authoring. A navigation typo was fixed to improve usability. The changes were implemented through four commits, ensuring traceability and reproducibility.

November 2024

7 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Month 2024-11: Delivered targeted documentation improvements for two CrowdSec components in crowdsec-docs, driving clearer guidance for users, faster onboarding, and reduced support friction. The work aligns with product goals and supports broader adoption of blocklist and bouncer features.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness98.4%
Maintainability98.2%
Architecture98.0%
Performance97.4%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashJavaScriptMarkdownSVGTypeScriptYAML

Technical Skills

API designAPI developmentAPI integrationApacheAsset ManagementCode FormattingConfigurationConfiguration ManagementContent RestructuringCrowdSecDevOpsDocumentationLintingNginxOWASP CRS

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

crowdsecurity/crowdsec-docs

Nov 2024 Feb 2026
13 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptMarkdownSVGYAMLBashTypeScript

Technical Skills

Asset ManagementDocumentationTechnical WritingWeb Server ConfigurationScenario DevelopmentSecurity