Summary
Ludovic Poitou is a senior software engineer and product leader with over 25 years designing and shipping high-scale, resilient directory and identity services. He founded and ran ForgeRock France and led product strategy for core directory and gateway products, blending deep protocol-level expertise (LDAP, TLS, SASL) with product and operations leadership. A hands-on systems programmer fluent in Java, C/C++, Python and more, he has driven multi-threaded network server architecture and LDAPv3 conformance since the 1990s. Beyond corporate roles he organizes conferences and community groups (Snowcamp, Alpes JUG) and runs local angel and startup initiatives in Grenoble. His background includes driving OpenDS/OpenDJ evolution at Sun/Oracle and shipping production-ready clustering, replication and security features used in telco and enterprise deployments. Notably, he pairs long-term protocol standards work and IETF engagement with active regional startup and developer-community building.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Magister ISI Software engineering, Magister ISI Software engineering at Université Côte d'Azur
French, English, Spanish