Aloÿs Augustin
Founder at Stealth Startup (AI)
France
Summary
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Top SchoolAloÿs Augustin is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, security-focused systems from research prototypes to production. He has led engineering and architecture efforts at Cisco—scaling SASE/SSE VPN ingress to 100K+ users per deployment—and served as CTO and founding engineer at Blue Morpho, combining ontologies and LLMs for trustworthy enterprise AI. His hands-on background spans high-performance Kubernetes networking (Calico/VPP), QUIC/VPP work for HTTP/3, and distributed storage design, with open-source contributions to the widely used projectcalico/calico dataplane and CNI integrations. He has taught virtual machines and container security at École Polytechnique Executive Education, reflecting a strong blend of practitioner and educator roles. Now founding an AI stealth startup in France, he pairs deep systems expertise with product-driven leadership to tackle hard infrastructure and trust problems in AI. An unusual detail: he moves fluidly between low-level dataplane optimizations and designing ontology-backed LLM products, a rare cross-cutting skillset.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur Computer science, Diplôme d'ingénieur Computer science at École PolytechniqueTélécom ParisMaster 2 Advanced Communication Networks, Master 2 Advanced Communication Networks at Université Paris-Saclay
French, English
Github Skills (12)
cni10
kubernetes-networking10
go10
protobuffer10
networking10
protobuf10
grpc10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
docker9
kubernetes9
ebpf8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 16 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Aloÿs contributed to the Calico project by implementing and modifying features related to the CNI plugin and dataplane functionality. Their work includes adding dataplane options to gRPC requests for network configuration, incorporating new service messages for external dataplanes, and adding functionality to selectively disable reverse path forwarding (RPF) checks for workload endpoints. The contributions involve modifying protobuf definitions, backend code, and related validation logic. These changes enhance network control and flexibility within the Calico framework.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
calico-vpp/calico
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Cloud native networking and network security
Contributions:5 PRs, 56 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 9 months
securitynetworkingkubernetesnetwork-securitynetwork
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