Benjamin Thery
Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Thery is a Senior Software Engineer with 26 years of experience specializing in Linux and AIX kernel internals, networking, IPv6 and network security. Based in the Grenoble area, he has a long track record at companies like Bull and Altair, contributing deep systems-level expertise to production operating systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved IPv4/IPv6 multicast routing in the Linux kernel — fixing leaks, error paths and adding network namespace support — work that enhances robustness in real-world networking stacks. He combines low-level kernel development skills with practical networking know-how, making him particularly effective on projects that bridge OS internals and network features. Colleagues value his steady, detail-oriented approach to complex debugging and protocol-edge cases.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
DESS, Computing, Software Engineering, BSc, Computing, DUT, Computing, DESS, Computing, Software Engineering, BSc, Computing, DUT, Computing at Oxford Brookes University
French, English
Github Skills (8)
c1710
net10
namespaces10
c1110
linux-kernel10
ipv610
ipv410
memory-management9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Aug 2007 - Jan 2009
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improvements to the IPv6 and IPv4 multicast routing implementation within the Linux kernel. Their contributions involved fixing error paths, addressing memory leaks related to /proc entries, and correcting display issues in multicast cache information. Furthermore, the user made significant progress towards enabling network namespace support for IPv6 multicast forwarding, including dynamic allocation of data structures and propagation of network namespace context. These changes enhance the functionality and robustness of IPv4/IPv6 multicast routing.
bthery/visu-tp-3
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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