Philippe Krief
Research Relations Director
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolPhilippe Krief is a Research Relations Director with over 25 years of software engineering and program leadership experience, currently managing European-funded research programs and open-source community building at the Eclipse Foundation. He blends deep technical roots in embedded systems, object-oriented design and Java with hands-on program management, having led dissemination and community activities for H2020 projects and organized major scientific events like Eclipse SAM IoT and SAAM Mobility. Previously he led engineering teams at IBM and ARCAD, driving Agile transformations, industrialized delivery pipelines and cross-site development for complex ALM and embedded projects. A longtime Eclipse committer and former embedded Java architect, he uniquely bridges research, standards-oriented open source and industrial adoption. Based in Toulouse, he often operates at the intersection of academia and industry, leveraging his PhD-level background in AI and IDEs to translate research into sustainable communities and practical tooling. Unexpectedly, his career began in space-related software quality tooling at CNES, reflecting a long-standing focus on reliability in mission-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD A.I. and IDEs, PhD A.I. and IDEs at Université Paris 8DEA Langage Algorithmes et Programmation, DEA Langage Algorithmes et Programmation at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, English, Russian
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Github Skills (73)
sourceforge9
trainings8
adobe-experience-manager8
publish7
eclipse7
wordpress-plugin7
security6
agile6
java6
foundation6
perfect5
node-red5
drag5
css5
nodes5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-opensmartclide/smartclide-cicd-gitlab
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 branches in 9 months
phkrief/Eclipse-Copyright-Generator
Nov 2017 - Apr 2024
Fork of http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipsecopyrigh/
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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