After a while thinking about creating a blog, I finally decided to give it a go, thus here we are: welcome to my blog.

Let me introduce myself in one sentence

I’m a graduated engineer from France, living in Montreal after accomplishing a master degree in telecommunication and network.

A bit more background

I have studied six years in computer science and networking (four in France, two in Canada). At the beginning, anything that interested me was smartphones, either iOS and Android. So I learned how to program and develop apps for both those platforms, but in the end it was all about the Google open source platform: Android. From a developer perspective, open source is the way to go because you can either contribute and/or leverage the existing and customize it as desired. I won’t argue about open source vs proprietary here because that is not the aim of my blog, and in my own opinion the battle already has a winner.
In parallel, I studied classic networking, but was mostly interested in wireless and mobile networking. It’s only in the sixth year of my university course that I heard about Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV); two main paradigms revisiting our vision of the network. Being an application developer in my spare time, and having the basic networking knowledge, I knew I have to be part of this movement.

To sum up …

… what I think, I will quote Marc Andreessen (creator of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm): “Software is eating the world”.

Great point of view

Here is a presentation signed Benedict Evans, one of Andreessen Horowitz’s employee. The video showcases pretty well the evolution of smartphone, and its adoption.