Alex Petit-Bianco

Current

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Postini
General Manager at Resilience
Senior Software Engineer at Resilience

Senior Software Engineer at RedHat, Inc
Senior Software Engineer at Cygnus Solutions
Software Engineer at Silvaco Data Systems
Software Engineer at Anacad/Mentor Graphics

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Education

Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)
Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)
St Joseph, Thonon

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Connections

275 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Alex Petit-Bianco’s Summary

Software development skills earned working for small, medium, large and open source/free software companies in the Silicon Valley. Managerial skills earned leading and executing a China offshoring initiative for a security appliance company. Always interested in business, human and technical challenges.

Alex Petit-Bianco’s Specialties:

Business: offshore development center setup and expansion, daily technical/administrative management, technical project management.

Technology: Open Source, software design, development & integration, Linux system programming, networking, security, high performance implementation, languages compilation and runtime support, secure software development best practices, web technologies, high availability

Alex Petit-Bianco’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Google

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Message security and compliance: design, implementation, maintenance. This is the continuation of the work done at Postini, following the Postini aquisition by Google.
Senior Software Engineer

Postini

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2007 — September 2007 (6 months)

Message security and compliance: design, implementation, maintenance.
General Manager

Resilience

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

November 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Setup and management of an offshore development center in Hangzhou, China. Daily administrative management, hiring and growth planning, technical project management.

Ongoing development of security appliance products on a Linux based high availability security platform.
Senior Software Engineer

Resilience

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

July 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 5 months)

Development of a high availability Linux based software/hardware platform for integration of the the best of breed security applications, enabling high availability security for the enterprise.

Linux system programming, kernel security support, Perl-CGI, Linux OS customization, hardening, security programming best practices.
Senior Software Engineer

RedHat, Inc

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)

December 1999 — June 2002 (2 years 7 months)

Gcc Java front-end maintainer. Trade shows, Linux/Open Source evangelization, contract development.
Senior Software Engineer

Cygnus Solutions

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 6 months)

Gcc Java front-end maintainer. Trade shows, Linux/Open Source evangelization, contract development.
Software Engineer

Silvaco Data Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

October 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 8 months)

Design and implementation of an architecture neutral 64bit virtual machine. Design and implementation of a ANSI (+ custom extensions) C compiler targetting the virtual machine. Used to provide extensibility to a CAD toolchain.
Software Engineer

Anacad/Mentor Graphics

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

March 1993 — October 1995 (2 years 8 months)

Participation to the implementation of a mixed analog/digital HDL.

Alex Petit-Bianco’s Education

Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)

Post Master's Graduate , Artificial Intelligence , 1990 — 1991

Distributed artificial ecosystem simulator [Advisor: Jean Mehat]
Université Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)

Master , Computer Science & Electronics , 1988 — 1990

User interfaces design and implementation, full featured graphic shell implementation for Unix System and X Windows [Advisor: Jean Mehat]
St Joseph, Thonon

Lycée Saint Joseph, Thonon-les-Bains, was my high school.

Activities and Societies:

Computer Club

Additional Information

Alex Petit-Bianco’s Websites:

Alex Petit-Bianco’s Interests:

technology, open source, free software, linux, computer security, high availability, software development. people, project and facility management. photography, rock climbing, skiing, wind surfing, scuba diving, hiking, backpacking.