Sylvain Cecchetto is an experienced Ingénieur Informatique based in Nancy, France, with a decade of hands-on work spanning malware analysis, network engineering, and production software. After completing a security-focused engineering education at TELECOM Nancy and a PhD-style research period at Loria/CNRS studying malware, he now applies that deep security expertise at Cyber-Detect. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as Kodi (tvOS/iOS work), showing a practical mobile and embedded systems skillset alongside his security background. Early roles implementing network monitoring and fiber redundancy reflect a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to reliability and operational visibility. Sylvain blends research rigor with applied engineering, making him adept at turning complex security problems into robust, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Ingénieur Informatique, Télécommunications, Réseaux et Services – Parcours sécurité à l'école des Mines de Nancy, Ingénieur Informatique, Télécommunications, Réseaux et Services – Parcours sécurité à l'école des Mines de Nancy at TELECOM Nancy
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:32 reviews, 55 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily contributed to the Kodi media center's tvOS platform implementation and enhancement. The commits showcase the addition of initial platform support for tvOS, along with fixes and improvements to the Now Playing feature. Further work involved power management integration and refactoring the TopShelf interface, along with fixes for jailbroken devices and remote control improvements.
Contributions:13 commits, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
kodi-addonjekyllcatch-up
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