Fabrice Durand
Software Engineer Principal Lead At Akamai Technologies
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFabrice Durand is a seasoned network security architect and principal software engineer with 14+ years of experience, now leading engineering efforts at Akamai Technologies. He combines deep operational networking expertise—NAC (PacketFence), RADIUS, IPv4/IPv6, Cisco and carrier-class gear—with hands-on development in Python/Django, Perl and packaging for open-source deployments. As a long-time maintainer and contributor to PacketFence, he bridges product-grade security tooling with scalable, real-world network operations (BYOD, VOIP, proxying). Comfortable across Linux and Windows stacks, databases, directories and mail systems, he excels at turning complex infrastructure requirements into auditable, deployed solutions. Based in Montreal, he brings a rare blend of carrier and municipal network experience alongside applied open-source craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Réseau et Télécom, DUT, Réseau et Télécom at Université de Rennes Ibachelor of electronic, Electrical and Electronics, bachelor of electronic, Electrical and Electronics at Lycée Yves Thépot
French, English
Github Skills (149)
authentication10
captive10
security10
wake-on-lan10
dhcp10
isolation10
5g10
wireless10
captive-portal10
hsm10
access-control10
4g10
posix10
network10
freeradius10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
inverse-inc/packetfence-pki
Jun 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:124 commits, 2 PRs, 117 pushes in 3 years 9 months
letsencryptssleappkitls
fdurand/pki
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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