Matthieu Texier
Customer Engineer Specialist - Network And Security at Pragma Security
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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SeniorMatthieu Texier is a seasoned network and security engineer turned founder with over two decades of experience designing and selling solutions for ISPs, telcos and large enterprises across Europe. He leads Pragma Innovation and Pragma Security, building big-data analytics and DDoS/intrusion protection products that combine open-source stacks (Kafka, Druid, ClickHouse) with custom ingest layers in Go/C/C++. At Google he currently focuses on customer-facing network and security engineering, drawing on a long track record at Alcatel‑Lucent, Juniper, Arbor and others. Matthieu pairs hands-on backend development—evidenced by protocol dissector contributions to the Wireshark codebase around BGP and PIM—with strategic product and go‑to‑market skills. He’s comfortable spanning low-level protocol detail to executive-level solution design, and often surfaces security insights from telemetry-fed analytics. Based in Greater Paris, he specializes in complex transitions for service providers, hosting firms and cloud operators.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (14)
c1710
bgp10
proto10
c1110
openvpn10
vpn10
pim10
network-protocol10
wireshark10
vpn-client10
protonvpn10
isis9
tshark8
packet-capture8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
Feb 2014 - Jul 2016
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthieu primarily contributed to the Wireshark codebase, focusing on protocol dissector enhancements and bug fixes related to various network protocols, particularly PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol). Their work included aligning message types to IANA standards, adding support for new features such as the BGP EVPN protocol, and correcting decoding issues within the BGP dissector. They also refactored code by making specific sub-TLV functions for better code organization and maintainability.
wiresharkpacket-capturetsharkstratoshark
Pragma-Innovation/bgpflowspectool
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
BGP flowspec (RFC 5575) tool for DDoS mitigation
Contributions:110 commits, 41 pushes in 2 years 1 month
bgpddosrfc
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