Christophe Fontaine
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Salles, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolChristophe Fontaine is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in embedded and real-time platforms, hardware/software co-design, and Network Function Virtualization. After eight years writing firmware and drivers, he transitioned to NFV integration and applications at Red Hat, where he progressed from senior engineer to principal and now senior principal roles. Based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, he blends low-level systems expertise with cloud-native networking, delivering pragmatic solutions that bridge hardware constraints and virtualized infrastructures. A pragmatic engineer and team player, he brings deep firmware roots to complex virtualization projects and is equally comfortable debugging device drivers or shaping NFV stacks. Off the clock he’s a family man, self-described geek and proud cat owner, a detail that reflects a grounded, curious approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Embedded Systems, Engineer's degree Embedded Systems at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.
French, English
Github Skills (37)
watchdog10
dbus10
power-management10
attestation10
daemon10
mechanism10
network-analysis9
meta9
network-visualization9
pcap9
packet9
heat9
security9
background-image9
linux9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
christophefontaine/ovs
May 2020 - May 2023
Open vSwitch
Contributions:56 pushes, 3 branches, 3 comments in 3 years
twitch
DPDK/grout
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
grout # a graph router based on DPDK
Contributions:175 reviews, 53 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
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