Richard Roberts
Director, Strategy & Technology Telco Cloud Automation
Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Roberts is a seasoned telco cloud and IP networking leader with over two decades of experience now focused on strategy and automation for carrier-grade cloud platforms. As Director of Strategy & Technology at Nokia and former Principal Engineer at Juniper, he blends deep multi-domain expertise—routing/switching (JNCIE #358 Emeritus), SDN, mobile, orchestration, Kubernetes and AI-cluster integration—to architect large-scale, distributed telco clouds. He has driven product strategy and standards contributions (IETF, OpenRAN), authored patents, and led pioneering work on ROCEv2-optimized AI cluster networking and transformer-based proofs of concept for network optimization. Comfortable switching between hands-on technical design and CxO-level strategy, he has a track record of simplifying massively distributed architectures via advanced SDN and smartNIC integrations. Based in the Rennes metro area, he marries rigorous telecom engineering (Télécom Paris) with mathematical training to solve both practical deployment challenges and long-term strategic problems. An often-overlooked strength is his history of mentoring and cross-cultural delivery across major operators, giving him rare depth in operationalizing innovation.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Fundamental Mathematics and Statistics, Fundamental Mathematics and Statistics at Master in mathematicsIngenieur Telecommunication, Ingenieur Telecommunication at Télécom Paris
Italian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
robric/multipass-3-node-k8s
Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:159 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
robric/remotecompute
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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