lefessan

lefessan

I am the founder of OCamlPro in 2011 and part-time CEO/CTO since Feb 2018, a company that helps companies use OCaml in projects of industral size, with prestigious clients such as Jane Street, the Citrix Xen Team, Esterel Technologies, MERCE, Samsung and Facebook.

I am one of the founders of Origin Labs SAS in 2019, the company that created the Dune Network blockchain, a fork of Tezos with focus on accessibility and security.

A Former Computer Scientist, I worked on improving Programming Languages, especially statically typed functional languages, and in particular, the OCaml programming language.

I was one of the founders of Move&Play, a company that developed the Peerple peer-to-peer social network, that later became CleverScale (http://www.cleverscale.com).

I developed several open-source and free softwares, mostly in OCaml: JoCaml, MLdonkey (multiprotocol p2p client), MNPlight (jailbroken iPhone must-have), LAMP (Linux Animation and Movie Player, in C++).

I am a member of the IRILL lab on Open-Source software, and a member of steering committee of the open-source working group in the Systematic cluster (GTLL).

I was previously mostly working in the field of Theoretical and Applied Distributed Systems, with an emphasis on Very Large Scale Distributed Systems, in particular peer-to-peer networks.

Specialties: Typed Functional Languages (OCaml), Compiler Optimisation
Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Peer-to-Peer Backup, Security, Cryptographic Protocols