Marc-andré Lureau
SW Developer, Qemu KVM Team at Red Hat
Réunion
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Top SchoolMarc-andré Lureau is a seasoned software developer with 19 years’ experience, currently contributing to QEMU/KVM and broader virtualization stacks at Red Hat from Réunion. He specializes in low-level systems, virtualization, and desktop/Spice integration—working on ivshmem, vhost-user, qga and virgl/spice—and has a strong track record of improving Linux system components like systemd, libvirt and GTK/GDK. A prolific open-source maintainer and contributor, his work spans firmware security (EDK II/TPM), build systems (Meson), and Rust bindings for GTK4, showing comfort across C, Rust and cross-platform toolchains. He combines deep platform knowledge (Win32 and MinGW experience) with pragmatic feature delivery—e.g., adding D-Bus support and graphics/audio configuration—and a curiosity for how pieces fit together that drives cross-project fixes and interoperability.
20 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
OGP, Supply Chain Management, OGP, Supply Chain Management at Université catholique de l'OuestGISTR, CS, GISTR, CS at EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
English, Spanish, Malagasy, French
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Github Skills (60)
libvirt10
win6410
uefi10
pywin3210
python10
qemu10
wp-api10
testing10
init10
firmware10
configuration-management10
linux10
build-system10
win32gui10
gtk-rs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GNOME/glib
May 2011 - Dec 2022
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:221 commits in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marc-andré primarily contributed to the GLib library, making several low-level changes. Their work included adding and modifying macro definitions, functions, and API to support features like value initialization, signal handling, and file I/O operations, with some changes to build systems and tests. The user also made improvements and bug fixes related to the Windows platform support, including environment variable handling and file-system interactions. The user further developed a test to ensure the correct behavior when closing socket connections.
glibgnome
GNOME/gtk
Jun 2011 - Nov 2022
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marc-andré primarily contributed to the GDK (Graphics Device Interface) portion of the GTK library, focusing on the Win32 backend. They implemented several enhancements, including the addition of "Since" annotations to functions, deprecating outdated functions, and correcting errors in code, such as return types. Their work also included code corrections related to Windows-specific features and the integration of an input method editor (IME). They demonstrated a deep understanding of the GDK internals and the Win32 platform.
gnomegtk
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