Vincent Bernat
Backbone Director at NextDNS
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolVincent Bernat is a seasoned network engineer and free-software developer with 17 years of experience, currently serving as Backbone Director at Free and a Senior Software Engineer at NextDNS. He combines deep systems-level C, Python and Go expertise with hands-on operational leadership across ISPs and cloud providers, and is a long-standing Debian developer. His open-source contributions span critical networking projects—including HAProxy, GoBGP, lldpd and netlink—highlighting low-level protocol work, performance fixes and cross-platform portability. Vincent’s background blends production-grade DevOps (packaging, install scripts and deployment pipelines) with firmware-style bug fixes and cryptographic hardening, showing a rare mix of high-level architecture and meticulous systems programming. Based in Paris, he brings academic rigor from ENS Cachan/PhD studies to pragmatic, reliability-focused engineering of large-scale network services.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée Henri PoincaréPhD Computer science, PhD Computer science at Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan
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Github Skills (136)
reverse-proxy10
package-management10
python10
high-availability10
testing10
plugin-development10
bash10
cookiecutter10
c1110
security10
c1710
automation10
meter10
netlink10
command-line-tool10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
akvorado/akvorado
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Flow collector, enricher and visualizer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 1067 commits, 891 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily worked on enhancing the backend functionality of the project. They were responsible for adding a reverse proxy for Grafana, indicating a focus on integrating and managing the application's interface. Furthermore, the user made changes to core components, including improvements to flow processing (hydratation) and implementing database-related schema changes.
visualizerclickhouseenrichernetflowipfix
lldpd/lldpd
Oct 2008 - Dec 2022
implementation of IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP)
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 14 reviews, 2123 commits in 14 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vincent contributed to the lldpd project by implementing various features, fixing bugs, and improving the overall robustness of the code. They added a receive-only mode, modified the usage function, and added a file generation functionality. The user also improved the build system, including fixing compilation warnings and ensuring correct alignment.
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