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Julien BLACHE
38, rue Francis Chirat
69100 VILLEURBANNE
FRANCE

Phone: +33 (0)6 10 45 65 33
Mail: jblache@debian.org
Web: http://www.jblache.org 		Nationality: French
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INSA Engineer
Debian Developer
Profile
As a computer engineer, I enjoy working on innovative and challenging projects, finding the best possible solutions to complex issues.
Work experience
Feb. - Aug. 2008 BT Infrastructures Critiques Lyon
Datacenter tooling engineer http://www.bt.com/france
  • Developed custom multi-NOC monitoring tools, based on Nagios and other OS tools
  • Deployed and managed custom monitoring platforms for specific client needs
  • Integrated new monitoring tools with existing datacenter tools
2005 - June 2007 Linbox FAS Metz
Product manager http://www.linbox.com
  • Conceived the "LIPS" IP telephony solution, based on Asterisk
  • Conceived the multi-sites and redundant architectures for the LIPS solution
  • Integrated (CTI) Open-XChange and Asterisk
  • Designed robust & reliable network and services architectures
  • Wrote end-user and technical documentation
  • Acted as the customer interface, handling feedback and feature requests
2004 Sirius Technologies Metz
Software development engineer http://www.siriustech.org
  • Conceived an all-in-one, turn-key server solution running on Linux
  • Conceived an automatic deployment platform for the products (Debian & FAI)
  • Started a value added, managed hosting offer in datacenter
Since 2000 Debian Project
Debian Developer (volunteer work) http://www.debian.org
  • Developing the Debian GNU/linux free (libre) operating system
  • Maintaining software packages in the form of Debian packages
  • Quality assurance, bug fixes, integration, ...
Skills
Systems More than 8 years of experience with Unix-like operating systems (esp. Debian), storage & backup systems, monitoring, SSO
Networks Advanced network architectures using routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), load balancers and failover switches, firewalls and VPN gateways, QoS
Services Standard Internet services, VoIP (SIP, Asterisk), PostgreSQL, PgCluster, Oracle, MySQL
Development On Unix-like and embedded platforms (VxWorks, ...) using low-level and high-level languages (assembly language, C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell, ...)
Wrote device drivers and kernel code.
Education
2004-2007 National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA) Lyon
Master of Engineering in computer engineering (Diplôme d'Ingénieur)
2002-2004 University of Franche-Comté Belfort
Bachelor of Engineering in computer engineering (Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie)
Languages
Lectures
March, 2004 ENS Cachan Paris
Topic: The Debian Project, goals, history and day to day operations
February, 2004 Solutions Linux Exhibition & Conference Paris
Topic: Simplified park management using package management systems
Topic: The Debian Project, goals, history and day to day operations
Miscellaneous
References
Available upon request.