Frédéric Vachon
Advanced Anti-Cheat Engineer
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrédéric Vachon is an Advanced Anti-Cheat Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in reverse engineering, game security, and C++ development, currently protecting live games at 1047 Games. His career spans roles at Ubisoft and Electronic Arts where he moved from research and specialist positions into hands-on integrity engineering, combining malware-research experience from ESET with practical anti-cheat implementations. He contributes to open-source tooling and devops-adjacent projects—evidenced by Python style improvements to the Shinken monitoring framework—showing attention to maintainability as well as low-level code. Based in Canada, he blends academic rigour from a UQAM computer science degree and a humanities background in history with a talent for turning complex reverse-engineering insights into actionable defenses.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree History, Bachelor's degree History at Université de MontréalBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
French, English, Arabic
Github Skills (3)
shinken10
pep10
python10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shinken-solutions/shinken
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Flexible and scalable monitoring framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Frédéric primarily focused on conforming code to PEP8 style guidelines across various Python files within the Shinken monitoring framework. Their contributions involved minor code adjustments to improve code style and formatting, as evidenced by the "Conform to pep8" commit messages and the provided code differences in `shinken/notification.py`, `shinken/daemon.py`, `shinken/bin.py`, `shinken/http_client.py`, `shinken/property.py`, `shinken/dependencynode.py`, `shinken/action.py`, `shinken/modulesmanager.py`, and `shinken/webui/bottlecore.py`. These changes enhance code readability and maintainability.
scalablemonitoring-frameworkmetricsmonitoringflexible
savoirfairelinux/drupal-monitoring
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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