Frédéric Desbiens
Project Lead Eclipse ThreadX at Eclipse Foundation
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFrédéric Desbiens is a program and product leader with 20+ years of experience building open-source ecosystems, developer communities, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading Embedded and IoT initiatives at the Eclipse Foundation. As Project Lead for Eclipse ThreadX and Senior Manager for Embedded & IoT, he combines governance, community stewardship and technical program management across 50+ global projects including Sparkplug and ThreadX’s transition to open source. He previously shaped cloud release and lifecycle tooling as Product Manager for BOSH at Pivotal and has led solution architecture and product roles at Cisco and Oracle. Frédéric bridges standards and practice as the Eclipse liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1 subcommittees, translating community specifications into international standards. Known for fostering transparent, meritocratic communities, he pairs an MBA in e‑commerce with deep technical roots in computer science and a knack for turning proprietary platforms into thriving open collaborations.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, e-commerce, MBA, e-commerce at Université Laval
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (57)
usb-hid10
maintenance10
azure-rtos10
software-update10
usb10
dfu10
microcontroller10
iot10
tcp10
threadx10
embedded10
azure10
operating-system10
hugo9
device-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fdesbiens/sparkplug
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
Sparkplug
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
sparkplugspark
fdesbiens/sparkplug.eclipse.org
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
The Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group seeks to drive the evolution and broad adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug protocol and related technologies that enable the creation of open, collaborative, and interoperable Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions.
Contributions:14 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
interoperableevolutiontechnologiesadoptionindustrial
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