Sébastien Vincent
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolSébastien Vincent is an experienced consultant and trainer with 15+ years focused on systems, networks and low-level software, blending production GNU/Linux/FreeBSD administration with C/C++ system development and embedded Linux (Yocto/Buildroot). He teaches and consults on DevOps and infrastructure technologies—Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Proxmox—and has hands-on expertise in IPv6, high-availability DNS/DHCP, PXE deployment and firewall platforms (pfSense/OPNsense). A long-time open-source contributor, he has improved cross-platform build systems and networking projects such as Freelan and contributed to TURN, Jitsi and the ns-3 IPv6 stack, demonstrating strong portability and interoperability skills. His background includes cryptographic and middleware components for enterprise systems as well as creating secure update PoCs for embedded devices, reflecting a pragmatic security mindset. Based in Strasbourg, he pairs classroom experience across multiple vocational and higher-education institutions with day-to-day consulting for complex multi-system, multi-site HA infrastructures. Less obvious: he often bridges the gap between academia-grade network research and production-grade tooling, making research implementations reliably deployable.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Network and applications, Computer Science, Master's degree, Network and applications, Computer Science at University of StrasbourgBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at IUT Robert SCHUMAN
French, English
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
boost10
openssl10
openbsd10
freebsd10
makefile9
upnp9
windows8
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
freelan-developers/freelan
Jun 2011 - Mar 2020
The main freelan repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 216 commits, 29 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to the build system, fixing compilation issues across multiple operating systems (OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and compilers (gcc, clang, Visual Studio). They introduced or modified build scripts and configurations, and implemented features, such as UPnP support, linking dependencies, and correcting paths for the build. Furthermore, the user's work included adjustments for OpenSSL compatibility, along with code modifications.
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s-vincent/vsutils
Feb 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:34 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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