Franck Talbart

Software Engineering

I am a 10+ year-experienced engineer with a strong background in software development on Linux. For example, I worked as an expert engineer and a project manager (4 to 6 members) at the Exascale Computing Laboratory (Intel) on the design and implementation of a research tool (CTI) used for application characterization analysis. It was deployed at the CORIA Laboratory (Rouen) to provide performance monitoring (automatic generation of weekly reports presenting the latest performance analysis of a combustion simulator). For more information, please check out the official website.

Managing

At DDN, I developed a High-Performance Computing-oriented framework from scratch to enable test automation on a burst buffer in a distributed environment. The tool includes a scalable system deployment on Amazon EC2 (up to 1000 nodes), a complete API to execute arbitrary code remotely, a performance testing system, a chart generator, a defect reproducer, and many other internal modules. In the end, I was responsible for team management (engineers, team size: 3 to 5) and the research and development of the framework. The tool is fully operational and is used in Maryland (USA), Pune (India), and Paris (France) to extensively test multiple DDN products.

Teaching

I am also in charge of the System Administration lectures and the UNIX tutorials at the ISTY engineering school, Versailles / Vélizy-Villacoublay. I am a member of the Board of Directors at ISTY. I obtained a five-year degree (equivalent to the European master's degree in computer science) from this school and was ranked first during the three years.