Home Hacks Photo Job Blog About ________________________________________________________________________________ Julien Lerouge Email: julien.lerouge@gmail.com San Jose, CA Cell: (408) 230-6387 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER I am an experienced hands on technical engineering manager. I love coding and designing elegant systems that perform at the highest performance & scale required for the job. I am very curious and analytical, and can quickly master new technologies. I have designed & implemented software systems that range from specialized device drivers to compilers, targeting platforms ranging from embedded to server class. I have experience recruiting and managing a small team of highly skilled engineers, keeping the day to day operations on course to achieve successful product deliveries. ________________________________________________________________________________ EXPERIENCE 2009 - Present Apple, Inc. , Software Engineering Manager (California, USA) * Leading development of custom and innovative tools for DRM applications, involving strong cryptography, clang & LLVM compiler technologies and advanced obfuscation techniques. * Debugging compiler bugs & miscompilations. * Drive performance & power optimizations. 2006 - 2009 Apple, Inc. , Software Engineer (California, USA) * LLVM compiler related optimizations for DRM applications, code obfuscation and code protection, on MacOS, iOS and Windows platforms, user and kernel space. * iPod software development & debugging (JTAG). * Reverse engineering (x86 & ARM). * Audio & Video processing. * Build automation, continuous integration. 2004 - 2006 Sigma Designs , Software Engineer (California, USA) * Design and Implementation of an Elliptic Curve library, optimized for MIPS (C and assembly programming). * Implementation of AACS for Blu-ray and HD-DVD, on a trusted hardware. * Design and implementation of a secure bootloader. * Integration of Microsoft WMDRM in Sigma's chip architecture (UPnP, UDP and TCP network programming, RSA and AES ciphers). * Secure key loading implementation for production facility, applied to HDCP, AACS, WMDRM. * General purpose video/audio drivers development and debugging for Sigma's chips (UPnP, streaming, MPEG4 audio/video). 2003 Sigma Designs , Linux Software Engineer Intern (California, USA) * Linux Device driver development : debugging, porting to various architectures (MIPS, ARM). * Linux Frame buffer implementation for Sigma's latest Media processor. * Porting of an older multimedia framework to the newest chip (C++). 2002 École Normale Supèrieure , Software Intern (France) Grid Computing in the team of Y. Robert : MetaSimGrid , Towards realistic scheduling simulation of distributed applications, ( paper ). 1999 - 2000 French Navy, Navigator : officer in charge of navigation, third officer on board the ocean-going tug Malabar (A664, Brest, France). ________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2002 - 2004 (MS EE) École Nationale Supèrieure des Télécommunications (Paris, France) ASIC designs, robotics and embedded systems, real time and multimedia applications. 1999 - 2002 (MS CS) École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) Computer science, networking and databases. ________________________________________________________________________________ PATENTS I am inventor or co-inventor on numerous patents related to software security, for example: * Software integrity verification using variable block length and selection * System and method for annotation driven integrity verification * System and method for array obfuscation * System and method for branch extraction obfuscation * System and method for call path enforcement * System and method for executing an encrypted binary from a memory pool ________________________________________________________________________________ SKILLS I have experience taking projects from initial idea to finished products. My main programming languages are C++ & C. I often use Python to build infrastructure and other tools (continuous build & integration for e.g.). I have experience building, benchmarking & debugging software for user & kernel space, on MacOS, iOS, Linux, Windows and Android targets. ________________________________________________________________________________ EXTRA Strong Linux supporter since 2.0.11 kernel. Creator of the ACPI4Asus project, driver for ASUS ACPI proprietary extensions, listed as official Linux maintainer for several years. Development involved extensive knowledge of the kernel ACPI subsystem and reverse engineering of the ACPI tables. ________________________________________________________________________________ 2020/09/17 Debian / W3C / vim / PHP powered |