Senior software engineer at Webroot Software
Saint-Étienne Area, France
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- Elected Member at Municipal Council of Gluiras
- Senior software engineer at Webroot Software
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Francois Pesce’s Summary
Application Developer, in the domain of network security applications.
Particularly interested in the algorithmic, the optimizations, real-time, multi-threaded (or multi-processus) applications, client/server applications design where the goal is the automation of either the security or the penetration of a networking system.
Francois Pesce’s Specialties:
web application security, network security, algorithms, string algorithms (pattern matching, data sorting), artificial intelligence (neural networks, genetic algorithms). Development in C, Java, use and abuse of regular expression (in PERL, Java or C using pcre).
Francois Pesce’s Experience
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Elected Member
Municipal Council of Gluiras
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Political Organization industry)
March 2008 — Present (9 months)
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Senior software engineer
Webroot Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (10 months)
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Software Engineer
Bee Ware
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
June 2004 — January 2008 (3 years 8 months)
Axiliance S.A. was a company that specializes in Web Application security solutions, as well as proxies and reverse proxies.
My responsibilities were the development of new, and the improvement of existing apache modules on i-Sentry (previously Realsentry) product, a web application firewall (Layer 7 ISO/OSI) engine.
Axiliance has been acquired by Bee Ware ( www . bee-ware . net ) in September 2005.
I have worked to maintain a reverse proxy to protect Citrix Metaframe, STA and CSG solutions.
My final contribution to this employer was remotely (from my home in Gluiras ;)) to work on the Web Single-Sign-On (WSSO) solution of Axiliance: i-Trust, for nearly 2 years long, during this period, I have also done some specific developments for French government administration such as CNAV and CNAM. -
Co-Founder
Bee Ware
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Bee Ware SAS is a company specialized in intelligent anti-web-intrusion system as well as easy to use security solutions (plug and protect). My responsibilities in this company were to develop and maintain the core of this application that include TCP/IP packets reassembly, SSL decryption in a sniffing process, HTTP parsing, communication with a java daemon, as well as development or optimization of basic as well as complex libraries (neural networks, hash tables, priority queues etc...) on the Intelliwall web application firewall (layer 7 ISO/OSI).
I've been involved in the sale process as I was in contact with customers in the Try&Buy program of the company. -
Software Developer
Qualys
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
July 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 10 months)
"Qualys, Inc. offers on demand security audit and vulnerability management solutions to organizations of all sizes.". My responsibilities in this company were to develop new modules or improve existing ones in domain such as TCP protocol detection, HTML/HTTP/URI parsing,TCP ISN (Initial Sequence Number) prediction, known web vulnerabilities as well as some automated web security tests, and in brute force on many services. I also worked on the multi-threaded core engine.
