Willy Tarreau is a Lead Software Developer at HAProxy Technologies, a position they have held since 2013. They were a contractor at Société Générale from 1999 to 2013. Willy is the author and maintainer of HAProxy software, a member of the Linux kernel stable and security teams, and has participated in the IETF HTTP working group and Kernel Recipes conferences. They completed their education at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) from 1994 to 1997.