Maxime Lorrillere is a software engineer and Ph.D. in operating systems with 11 years of experience, including five years of Linux kernel development and a current role at Arista Networks. He specializes in low-level systems engineering—C/C++ kernel work, memory management, page cache and VFS—plus practical experience with LLVM passes and JVM bytecode instrumentation. His research and engineering have focused on optimizing OS and application performance on multicore NUMA platforms, producing techniques that boosted utilization up to 4× and delivered published, in-kernel innovations for VM memory reuse. Maxime also contributes to networking tooling and DevOps (notably enhancements for SONiC build/image management) and pairs deep systems expertise with clear presentation and teaching experience. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor and production-grade coding that targets measurable performance gains in real-world distributed and virtualized environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Université de Montpellier
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:29 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily focused on enhancing the configuration and management of SONiC network devices. Their contributions include adding support for VoQ configuration using `minigraph.xml` files, enabling database instances to connect to the chassis DB, and integrating dynamic ASIC PCI ID retrieval from the chassis state database. Furthermore, the user worked on configuring the midplane network for multi-asic docker instances, specifically on both linecards and supervisors. These changes likely streamlined network setup and configuration.
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
command-line-utilitiessoniccli
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Maxime Lorrillere - Software Engineer at Arista Networks