Fort David
Independent Consultant at Hardening consulting
Brittany, France
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Top expert inComprehensive Software Development and Security Technologies
Fort David is an independent consultant based in Brittany, France with 13 years of hands-on experience in security, Linux, networking and graphics. He has deep protocol and low-level systems expertise demonstrated by substantive backend contributions to prominent open-source projects like Wireshark and FreeRDP, notably improving RDP dissectors and hardening protocol handling. His background includes product and engineering leadership as CTO at a VPN/SSL vendor, plus software engineering roles across telecom and security firms where he worked on everything from VoIP and Jabber clients to DNSSEC and automated security audits. Fort blends practical C/C++ and Java systems work with security-minded code hygiene and performance fixes, and prefers engagements where he can tackle protocol, kernel/OS, or graphics challenges. An understated strength is his ability to move between research-grade protocol analysis and production packaging/deployment, making him a pragmatic problem solver for complex infrastructure projects.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
c1710
packet-analysis10
rdp10
develop10
c1110
network-protocol10
network-analysis10
remote-desktop10
rd10
wireshark-dissector10
security9
networking8
openssl6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRDP/FreeRDP
Jan 2013 - Dec 2022
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:960 reviews, 825 commits, 730 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fort's commits primarily focus on implementing and maintaining features within the FreeRDP library. These changes include adding checks for stream sizes, implementing new features and making code style and efficiency improvements in core functionality related to protocols, file handling, and channel management within the RDP protocol. They also improved security aspects of the code by adding const qualifiers and checking return values.
freerdpremote-desktopsdlrdpandroid
wireshark/wireshark
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Fort primarily focused on developing and improving RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) dissectors for Wireshark. Their contributions included implementing dissections for new features, fixing bugs, and improving the accuracy of the protocol analysis. They added dissection support for RDSTLS, Fastpath packets, RAIL channel, clipboard and audio out channels, and addressed issues related to data desegmentation and endianness in the RDP dissector and its sub-protocols.
tsharkgit-repositorywiresharkpacket-capturegitlab
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