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About me:

I started programming at the age of 12. Since then, I've been working on various projects on my spare time.

I already have a two-year diploma in computer science and I am now in the last year of a security-specialized engineering school called "ENSI de Bourges". As an option, I studied embedded devices.

I am also fond of cross-platform C++ system developments using the Qt framework or not.

Involvement:

My first community oriented project is PPassKeeper. It has been started in summer 2008 when I discovered there were no way to store password in a secured fashion that would be cross-platform. This project is also carried by Denis now.

My second biggest personal project would be ArchInit, a project started by Denis that intends to fasten the boot process of our main distribution, ArchLinux. Speed and efficiency is what we both strive for.

I also contribute a bit to the arduino IDE made by Denis Martinez, mostly on the Windows's port and the portability in general.

My most recent (and more important) involvement goes to the reversed-engineered open-source graphic drivers for nVidia GPUs Nouveau/PSCNV. My contribution is mostly on power management.

When it comes to administration, I have been renting a dedicated server and have been administrating it for almost two years. This dedicated server hosts a mail server, versionning systems (svn, bzr and git), websites (the one you're browsing at the moment for instance) and project management systems for the projects (trac). We moved from Debian to ArchLinux in June 2009.

As of my research experience, I started researching in a system security team of my school which won the SecSI contest(fr). The goal of this contest was to develop a jailed and secured operating system. This solution is described in a soon-to-be-released publication and is also being open-sourced under a GPL-like licence. I've co-written a scientific paper called A Dynamic End-to-End Security for Coordinating Multiple Protections within a Linux Desktop (see an old version of the article). This paper is about the project I've started at the end of my first year at the ENSIB and that I've been pursuing since then. I presented this paper in Chicago in 2010.

I am now doing a 6-months-long internship at the LaBRI, a research center of the University of Bordeaux 1. My work there is to identify security threats in sensor networks and to propose solutions for mitigating them.

If you want to see my work, you may want to look at my portfolio (see below).

Interests:

When it comes to computer science, my interest goes into system development, embedded systems and cross-platform developments. More recently, I started programming device drivers for Linux by working on the freedesktop's Nouveau project.

I am also fond of progressive rock music (Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Genesis) and I've been playing the electric guitar for five years now. I am also trying myself on a drum set and a midi keyboard, not with real success for now.

As a former Erasmus student, I also enjoy spending time with exchange students or to travel abroad.

Portfolio:

See mupuf's portfolio