Gregoire Villain
Sr Director, Product Core, Protect, Platform & Service Providers
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregoire Villain is a seasoned product and infrastructure leader with 11+ years driving network intelligence, CDN and ISP-focused products from inception to market, now leading AI, Insights and Alerting at Kentik. He blends deep hands-on networking experience—from IXPs and IP core routing to metro and access networks—with SaaS product management and large-scale distributed system design. At Netflix he built control systems for Open Connect that helped deliver over a third of peak internet traffic, and he has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms in both startup and operator environments. Gregoire is comfortable straddling product, engineering and operations, with a track record of bootstrapping product design teams and shipping observability and DDoS protection services. Fluent in French and experienced on boards and community projects like France-IX and PeeringDB, he brings ecosystem-level perspective to technical decisions. He’s known for turning deep telco and CDN domain knowledge into practical, automatable products that reduce operational cognitive load.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Telecommunications & Information Technologies, Engineering Telecommunications & Information Technologies at ESIGETELBaccalaureat - Science Mathematics, Baccalaureat - Science Mathematics at Lycée François Premier, Fontainebleau
French, English, German
Github Skills (14)
data-export10
networking10
code-server8
issue-tracking7
dns5
proxy4
dns-over-https4
cli4
doh4
python-client1
python1
api1
database1
api-client1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kentik/config-snippets
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Public repository that contains all available config snippets Kentik users can leverage to configure their networking equipments to export data to Kentik.
Contributions:6 reviews, 227 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 1 month
public-repositoryexportdata-exportnetworkingleverage
grrrrreg/broadband_report
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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