Michel Ouellette
Network Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichel Ouellette is a Network Engineer with over two decades of experience designing, testing, and operationalizing large-scale networking and synchronization solutions across data centers, labs, and rural connectivity projects. Based in Menlo Park, he leads work at Meta on transport networks, IEEE 1588/PTP, Synchronous Ethernet, split‑RAN/O‑RAN and timing appliances, and serves as editor of a new IEEE1588/PTP profile for data centers. He has a deep background in mobile backhaul, carrier Ethernet, and satellite/Wi‑Fi mesh deployments in Africa and South America, combining field trials and lab validation to move systems from prototype to production. His engineering practice spans disaggregation, test equipment, and time-sensitive networking while contributing to the Open Compute Project’s Timing Appliance initiative. Trained in electrical and telecommunications engineering (University of Ottawa and Telecom ParisTech), he pairs academic rigor with hands-on operational experience across vendors and large-scale deployments. A less obvious strength is his blend of standards influence and practical deployment know‑how, enabling both specification leadership and real-world implementation.
5 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Networking & Telecommunication, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Networking & Telecommunication at Ecole nationale supérieure des TélécommunicationsB.A.Sc, Electrical Engineering, B.A.Sc, Electrical Engineering at University of OttawaNetworking and Telecommunications, Networking and Telecommunications at Telecom ParisTech
French, English
Github Skills (15)
juniper10
distributed-systems10
load-balancing10
citrix10
monitor10
distribute10
cisco10
sdn10
data-center10
synchronization10
ansible-collections10
architectures9
monitoring9
infiniband1
napalm1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Time-Appliances-Project/Time-Card
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Develop an end-to-end hypothetical reference model, network architectures, precision time tools, performance objectives and the methods to distribute, operate, monitor time synchronization within data center and much more...
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes in 10 months
monitorsdnload-balancinglinearizabilitymonitoring
michelouellette123/Time-Appliance-Project
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Develop end-to-end hypothetical reference model, network architectures, performance objectives and the methods to distribute, operate, monitor time synchronization within data center and much more...
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
architecturescentermonitorinfinibandend-to-end
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