Mar 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Paris Area, France

• Founded and lead the world’s largest archive of software source code (28B+ files, 425M+ projects).
• Built as a long-term, non-profit research infrastructure with Inria, in partnership with UNESCO.
• Designed and led the international adoption of SWHID, now an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 18670) for intrinsic software identification.
• Developing a mirror network to ensure long-term access and resilience of the global software supply chain.
• Engaged with European and national institutions on Open Science, Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, and AI transparency.
• Initiator of CodeCommons, enabling traceable, transparent and responsible datasets for AI on software.

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

• Software Heritage is a non profit, long term, open, international initiative to collect, preserve and share the source code of all publicly available software, in partnership with UNESCO. It caters to the needs of cultural heritage, industry, academia, public administration, and society as a whole.

Oct 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 7 mos

• I have been on leave at Inria, working like crazy to set up the IRILL initiative. See us at http://www.irill.org

Oct 2010 – Jul 2022 · 11 yrs 9 mos

• Created Irill, the Initiative for Research and Innovation in Free Software (see http://www.irill.org) in 2010, and directed this structure since then. Attracted world class researchers to collaborate with Free Software communities in imprving the quality of their code. Organised meetings allowing researchers, community and industry to set up new collaborations. Contributing to advance knowledge on how to teach Free Software in a University.

Feb 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Set up and coordinated for 4 years the Mancoosi european research project, with 10 partners from 3 continents, leading to over 40 international publications, and several software products now incorporated in leading GNU/Linux distributions. During this period, besides the pleasure to lead a scientifically challenging consortium, I did cope with the significant administrative burden imposed onto coordinators by the complexity of the different administrations from the different partners, and the still imperfect mastery of financial guidelines one faces more often than one would expect.

Sep 1999 – Present · 26 yrs 8 mos

• In the long years spent at this institution, I have been head of studies for the 4th year in the Computer Science curriculum, head of studies of the DEA Programmation, member of the direction of the prestigious MPRI master and head of graduate studies for over 5 years. In several occasions I have been on leave to Inria, either to perform research, or to help structuring the Paris area research and innovation landscape. From 2003 I have been involved in research projects ranging from regional to national, to european ones. I am particularly proud of the work done on the Mancoosi project, that I set up and coordinated.

Oct 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I created the FOSS Thematic Group of Systematic, set up its governance, with a steering committee and a technical committe bringing together academics and industry, making sure motivated young people, men and women, were onboard.
• We fostered the emergence of over 30 collaborative projects for more than 100Me of R&D, with over a third of public funding: these projects involved dozens of SMEs, laboratories and industries in the Paris area, with a special focus on technical innovation.

Sep 2001 – Aug 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos

Sep 2001 – Aug 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos

Sep 1992 – Aug 1999 · 6 yrs 11 mos

• Teaching courses on programming (functional and object oriented), logics, semantics to wonderful students from Ecole Normale Supérieure, in a department led at the time by Michel Broué, a bright mathematician with unique management skills.