Benjamin Depardon

Experience

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  CIRIL

  Jul 2005 - Aug 2005

  Intern

  Implementation of a system for vacation requests.Added functionalities on the intranet.Developments mainly in Java

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  ENS Lyon

  Jul 2006 - Aug 2006

  Intern - Cosmological simulations on a Grid

  Study of cosmological simulations on distributed and heterogeneous environments.Implementation of a prototype using the DIET grid middleware, and the RAMSES simulator (developed by the CEA).- RAMSES benchmarking- Integration of RAMSES with DIET- Large scale experiments on the French research grid: Grid'5000

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  ENS Lyon

  Feb 2007 - Oct 2010

  Contribution to the Deployment of a Distributed and Hierarchical Middleware Applied to Cosmological Simulations- DIET middleware modeling- Deployment heuristics for DIET (genetic algorithms, linear programming under constraints)- Self-stabilizing graph clustering- Tasks scheduling under constraints- Modeling and deployment of cosmological simulations on the French experimental platform Grid'5000Developments mainly in C/C++ and Python Study of placement algorithms for distributed and heterogeneous platforms- Placement heuristics for both independant tasks and hierarchical middleware- Integration of these heuristics in the Adage deployment software- Large scale experiments on the French research grid: Grid'5000. Deployment and dynamic adaptation of the DIET middleware thanks to Adage and Tune deployment software.Developments mainly in C/C++, Python and Java

  • PhD Student

    Sept 2007 - Oct 2010

  • Intern - Deployment of generic applications on heterogeneous platforms

    Feb 2007 - Sept 2007
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  INRIA

  Oct 2010 - Nov 2010

  R&D Engineer

  Support and development for a research project with EDF R&D, management of their heterogeneous high-performance computing clusters.

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  SysFera

  Nov 2010 - Nov 2015

  SysFera develops the software solution SysFera-DS, a web portal for easy access to high-performance computing infrastructures and applications.- Management of the customer services, setting up support tools, procedures and documents- Customer & research projects management: French and European research projects concerning Clouds and HPC- Product management & strategy- Strategic business partnerships- Pre-sales & sales: RFP, customer demonstration, French & international events, POC, commercial offers, sales pipeline reviews- Technology & competitor monitoring- Co-supervision of a PhD student: data management in HPC & cloud environments- Member of SysFera's board of directors Show less - SysFera’s products & training management: + High-performance computing infrastructure management & usage + Porting applications to a SaaS model- Technical team management: 8 R&D engineers & PhD, setting up a SCRUM methodology, recruitments- Setting up code quality processes & tools- Customer project management (SMB & major accounts)- Setting up and managing French and European research projects- Pre-sales and presentations in events: customer demonstration, French & international events, analysis and conception of technical solutions relative to customer’s needs- Co-supervision of a PhD student: data management in HPC & cloud environments- Member of SysFera's board of directors Show less

  • VP Business Development

    Mar 2014 - Nov 2015

  • CTO

    Nov 2010 - Mar 2014
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  NICE

  Feb 2016 - Jul 2016

  Pre-sales HPC & Visualisation architect
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  UCit

  Feb 2016 - now

  CTO