Benoît Sigoure
About Benoît Sigoure
Benoît Sigoure is the Director of Engineering at Arista, with extensive experience in software engineering, site reliability, and open-source systems.
Company
Benoît Sigoure is currently employed at Arista, where he holds the title of Director of Engineering. He has been with the company since 2020 and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Title
Benoît Sigoure holds the position of Director of Engineering at Arista. His responsibilities include overseeing Arista's main SaaS environment, including SRE, security, core platform engineering, and SOC2 compliance.
Education and Expertise
Benoît Sigoure has an extensive educational background in computer science and mathematics. He earned a Master's degree in Computer Sciences from EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique (2005-2008) and a DEUG in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from Université de Rouen (2003-2004). Additionally, Sigoure achieved an International Baccalaureate in Mathematics from the British School of Warsaw (2001-2002). His expertise spans distributed serving systems, open-source systems, and mainstream programming languages such as Go, C/C++, and Java/Scala.
Background
Sigoure's career began with roles in research and development, transitioning through various engineering and leadership roles over the years. At Google, he was an Ads Site Reliability Engineer in County Dublin, Ireland (2008-2009), and a Site Reliability Engineer Intern in San Francisco Bay Area (2008). He also worked at StumbleUpon as a Site Reliability Engineer and Tech Lead (2009-2012) and at Arista Networks, Inc. as a Software Engineer (2012-2018). Additionally, he co-founded Observe, Inc. and worked there from 2018 to 2020.
Achievements
Benoît Sigoure is the author of OpenTSDB, the first truly scalable and distributed open-source monitoring system. His work involves reading and learning from the source code of major libraries and tools like libstdc++, libc, the Linux kernel, OpenJDK, and Go. As Director of Engineering at Arista, Sigoure collaborates with C-level executives and VPs to enhance company execution and growth. He also plays a role in organizing management training and supporting account teams with some of the company's biggest customers.