Curriculum Vitae

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Experience

Software Engineer

R&D, software development
 Isovalent (Remote from Cambridge, UK)
 Since February 2020

Isovalent delivers an advanced Kubernetes networking and security solution.

• Software engineering: Cilium, main focus on datapath (eBPF)

R&D Software Engineer

R&D, software development
 Netronome (Cambridge, UK)
 October 2017 — January 2020

Netronome designs network flow processors optimally designed for server-based compute and service node applications, supporting hardware offload for features such as eBPF, Open vSwitch, kTLS or P4.

• Contributions to eBPF support for the open source nfp driver (for example: BPF-to-BPF function calls, BTF support for offloaded programs), internal work on related unit tests and prototyping
• Various contributions and reviews to/for the eBPF ecosystem (bpftool code and packaging, strace, valgrind, sample programs, documentation, diffusion)
• Internal contributions to the product: collaboration with QA team, some support, discussion and prototyping with customers
• Creation of a C library to turn network filtering rules into eBPF programs: libkefir
• Articles contributed to Netronome’s blog

R&D Engineer

R&D, software development
 6WIND (Paris)
 October 2015 — September 2017

6WIND designs software solutions for high speed networking with Linux-based switches.

• Monitoring of new technologies in the field of high speed networking (including Linux eBPF/XDP)
• Conception of new features for the products, implementation of proof-of-concept (PoC) prototypes, performance optimisation, integration to mainline product
• Contribution to H2020 research project BEBA. In an SDN/NFV context, this project consists in designing interfaces to delegate some of the controller’s features—including stateful packet processing—to the programmable switches, and in providing dataplane acceleration solutions.
• Contribution to open source projects (Open vSwitch, strace), talks at conferences

PhD in IT security

Preparation of a thesis in IT security
 Université Paris-Est — UPEC — LACL (Paris)
 September 2011 — July 2015

Title:

Mechanisms and Modeling Tools for Protection Against Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Laboratory: LACL — Laboratory of Algorithmics, Complexity and Logic
Director: Pr Lynda Mokdad
Defended on July 17th, 2015

Final year internship — R&D engineer in IT security

Securing of a network protocol
 CS-SI [Communications — Systèmes] (Paris)
 March 2011 – August 2011 (6 months)

• Study of network protocols (IPsec, MPLS)
• Specification of a secure protocol
• Implementation of a proof of concept
• Integration to a system providing secure communications

Software Developer

Conception and development of tools for automated tests
 Snecma (Paris)
 June 2010 – August 2010 (3 months)

• Automated tests on a quality-management software
• Aim: shortening cycles of application acceptance
• Analysis, development and documentation of the code

Software Developer

Algorithmic opimization of a numeric solver in C language
 LMI-SDP2 research project
 June 2009 – August 2009 (3 months)

• Involvement in the LMI-SDP2 research project (University J. Fourier, Grenoble, France)
• Optimization of the solver (code compiling options)
• Implementation of an exact resolution method: Branch & Bound
• Execution of performance tests
• Presentation of the results obtained with the solver to the OC (combinatorial optimization) team of the CEDRIC laboratory (CNAM)

Education

PhD in IT security

Université Paris-Est — UPEC — LACL (Paris) September 2011 — July 2015
Defended on July 17th, 2015

Engineering degree

ENSIIE (Paris) 2008 – 2011

[École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique pour l’Industrie et l’Entreprise]

Top French computer science engineering school for business and industry

Well-rounded education in computer science in preparation for the position of engineer.

Master’s degree

UPEC (Paris) 2010 – 2011

[Université Paris-Est Créteil (ex-Paris XII)]

Master “Security of IT Systems” followed in parallel with the last year of engineering school