Dumontet Francois
Senior R&D Engineer In Advanced Routing Networks Protocols at 6WIND
Louveciennes, Île-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDumontet Francois is a Senior R&D engineer specializing in advanced routing network protocols with over two decades of combined research, service and industry experience across INRIA, Thales, Cisco, Airbus DS, Ekinops and 6WIND. He designs and maintains high-performance, resource-constrained routing software (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, BMP, segment routing) and builds virtual platforms to reproduce and qualify complex bugs, often proposing fixes upstream to open-source communities. His background spans low-level real-time and multi-core environments—VxWorks, PowerPC assembly, kernel drivers and cross-compilation—as well as higher-level protocol engineering and test automation. An active contributor to the widely used FRRouting project, he has delivered protocol bug fixes and features that improve stability and L3VPN/BMP monitoring. Now freelancing from Île-de-France, he combines academic rigor with hands-on debugging expertise, uniquely adept at turning intricate failure analyses into community-facing solutions.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BAC, C, BAC, C at saint Martin de FranceDEA, informatique, DEA, informatique at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
English
Github Skills (8)
c1710
bgp10
url-routing10
isis10
c1110
networking10
ospf10
bmp9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
FRRouting/frr
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
The FRRouting Protocol Suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 10 commits, 51 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dumontet primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the FRR routing suite. Their work focused on addressing issues in specific routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP. The contributions involved modifications to core functionality, including route handling, LDP cleaning, and BMP flag settings, improving the stability and correctness of the routing software. They also added features like the ability to set source interfaces for BMP connections and added support for L3VPN monitoring messages.
mplspbrvrrpripngevpn
fdumontet6WIND/FRR_New
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
The FRRouting Protocol Suite
Contributions:304 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 10 months
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