With a few more weeks to go before the official launch of commonIT, it’s time for us to introduce ourselves. Who are the founders of commonIT? There are four of us: Daniel Fages, Albino Pili, Mathieu Lafon and myself, David Dupre… But what is our background? And what brought us together?
My dear co-founders, I suggest a round-robin presentation: each of us will present one of our colleagues in turn. I’ll start with Mathieu, then it’s up to you…
Mathieu Lafon:
Mathieu is a graduate of the INSA engineering school in Lyon (a leading French engineering school) like myself and Daniel, and he started his career at Arkoon in 2000. If I had to present him in one sentence I would say he’s the kind of engineer able to develop in a day what most other engineers need a week to accomplish… and that would take me a year.
As lead developer, he participated in designing and developing FAST, the core technology of Arkoon’s UTM appliances. He’s recognized as co-inventor, with Daniel, of this technology, patented by Arkoon. In the Arkoon R&D labs, Mathieu launched and managed the security response team. I consider Mathieu to be one of the leading experts in IT security. His in-depth analysis of Internet threats during the last 5 years has contributed to uncovering many major vulnerabilities. Mathieu is also a contributor to the open source community.
