Thierry Escande
Senior Software Engineer at Vates - Xen Orchestra/XCP-ng
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolThierry Escande is a senior software engineer based in Montpellier with over 16 years of hands-on experience in C/C++ and deep expertise in Linux kernel and embedded systems. He has a strong track record upstreaming kernel work and enabling SoC support across companies like Linaro, Collabora, and Intel, and has built embedded Linux distributions for Xilinx and Altera at GE Renewable Energy. More recently he contributes to virtualization and cloud tooling at Vates (Xen Orchestra/XCP-ng) and worked on the Eclipse-hosted Oniro distributed OS at Huawei, demonstrating breadth across device, platform and infrastructure software. Thierry often bridges vendor-specific implementations and upstream mainline, focusing on drivers, DMA/iommu, device trees and test frameworks—skills that make hardware/software integration smoother and more maintainable. Colleagues value him for turning complex, platform-specific constraints into upstream-quality code and pragmatic solutions that reduce time-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG - Licence - Maitrise, Informatique, DEUG - Licence - Maitrise, Informatique at University of Montpellier
English, French
Github Skills (42)
xapi10
xcp10
virtio9
citrix9
vdi9
vms9
hypervisor9
xen8
installer8
debian-linux8
backup8
virtualization8
libvirt8
testing8
kernel7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tescande/boids
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:139 commits, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
xcp-ng-rpms/openssh
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
RPM sources for openssh
Contributions:13 reviews, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 months
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