Hi, I'm David du Colombier.

I'm a Software Engineer. I write programs primarily in C and Go.

I'm a regular contributor to Plan 9, plan9port and Go. I've also contributed to dozens of other open source software projects.

Since November 2020, I've been a Member of Board of Directors at Plan 9 Foundation.

Job

I'm currently working at Datadog.

For 7 years, I've been working at Videolabs, the company behind the VLC media player.

Previously, I worked for:

• Direction Générale de l'Armement
• EADS Defence & Security (now Airbus Defence and Space)
• Koalink
• HAProxy Technologies
• Qosmos (now ENEA)
• SightCall
• Videolabs

In a previous life, I worked for the French Navy.

Education

I've a background in both Electrical Engineering and Software Engineering. I attended at Université Paris-Sud (now Université Paris-Saclay).

Social networks

• Twitter
• Mastodon
• Linkedin
• Google+ (closed)
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Strava

Code

• GitHub
• GitLab
• BitBucket (no longer used)
• Google Code (closed)

Websites

• 9legacy.org
• 9grid.fr
• unix-diagram.org
• 9p.io

Hobbies

• Hiking, running, bicycling, skiing, paragliding...

Contact

Photo

My team at Videolabs (Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Ludovic Fauvet and Christophe Courtaut), Taro Ugen, Victor Agulhon (Targo), Xavier Niel (Free) and myself at Station F (2017).