Éric Leblond - Résumé

Professional Objective

I become over the years more and more deeply engaged in network and security. I now want to work at improving the security of the network by giving focus to new ideas and good software. My work on NuFW is an example of this desire.

Employment History

PhD Student
Université de Paris 6
August 1999-March 2001

Administration of the team computers and network. Teaching

Achievements:

Teaching C and Unix to engineer students.
Speach at Scan2000 conference in Karlsruhe.

Free Software Engineer
Alcove
April 2001-June 2002

Learning lot of things and getting network oriented

Achievements:

6 months work at Profile4you as system administrator.
Modification of Eyrolles network to achieve security and clustering.
Rebuilding of internet infrastructure of DirectFinance
Give a 15 days curse on Linux and networking to IT Engineer from Accor Service.

Network and System Engineer
Init-sys
July 2002-May 2004

I was in charge of Research and Development.

Achievements:

Create from scratch a Linux xDSL Gateway using L2TP, ATM with RFC2684 interfaces and CLIP interfaces.
Have Alphalink declared to the RIPE as a LIR and have a IP allocation.
Correct the RIP part of the Bird routing daemon.
Bugs corrections to the iphase ATM driver.
Complete monitoring and firewall log analyzer solution for a set of routers with an LDAP tree as unique entry point for the administrator.

Co-Founder
INL
May 2004-Present

I'm in charge of developpers management and I'm particulary involved in NuFW related work.

Achievements:

Architecture and developpement of EdenWall an appliance build other Linux and NuFW.
Management of developpers team.
Kernel and Netfilter related developpements.

Education

Mathematics DEA in Numerical Analysis, Juillet 1999. B
Université de Paris 6
Mathematics Licence in Fundamental Mathematics, Juillet 1998. TB
Université de Paris 6

Main Skills

Operating Systems: Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

Informatic Languages: C, Perl, PHP, C++.

Network and Security: TCP/IP, ATM (CLIP,RFC2684 bridging), Firewalling (Netfilter,Ipchains,Packet Filter), VPN, L2TP.

Technologies and Softwares: XML, SQL (MySql,PostgreSQL), HTTP (Apache), LDAP (OpenLDAP), SMTP (Exim,Postfix,Sendmail), IMAP (Courier,Cyrus).

Languages: English, German.

Written Free Software

NuFW. Main developper of NuFW which is an authenticating gateway. It's written in C and it has lead to numerous contribution to Netfilter.
Nulog. A Netfilter/NuFW log analyzer application written in php.
Gkrinn. A newsgroup post counter for gkrellm.

Publications

Eric Leblond. "Avis d'expert : Tirer le meilleur parti du filtrage sous Linux". 01 Réseaux. february 2007.
Eric Leblond, Vincent Deffontaines. "La Glib et le support des threads dans NuFW". Linux magazine france. september 2006.
Eric Leblond, Vincent Deffontaines. "NuFW et les interactions avec Netfilter". Linux magazine france. july-august 2006.
Eric Leblond, Vincent Deffontaines. "Présentation de NuFW". Linux magazine france. june 2006.
Eric Leblond. "Compte rendu du Netfilter Workshop". Linux magazine france. october 2005.
Eric Leblond, Vincent Deffontaines. "Sécurité avancée du serveur web Apache : modules mod_security et mod_dosevasive". Multi-System & Internet Security Cookbook. july-august 2005.
Eric Leblond, Vincent Deffontaines. "Introduction à NuFW". Multi-System & Internet Security Cookbook. mars-april 2005.
Eric Leblond. "Netfilter Connmark". 2003.
Eric Leblond. "RFC2684 bridging under linux". 2003.
Eric Leblond. "Introduction à la qualité de service sous Linux (Introduction to Quality of service under Linux) ". 2002.