Gwendal Simon is a Distinguished Software Architect at Synamedia specializing in CDN technology. As a research scientist, his specialties have included live video, AR, VR, and cloud gaming with a focus on scalability. Prior to joining Synamedia in 2021, Gwendal led a team of researchers in network measurement for Huawei and was a professor at IMT Atlantique, after completing his PhD in computer science in 2005. His research work took him to Canada’s University of Waterloo and Adobe Research in San Jose. He has co-authored a dozen patents and published over 100 conference/journal papers on network, multimedia, and systems. The papers have proved popular, winning several awards and securing more than 4,000 citations. He presents to both academia and industry and has been both chair and technical chair at international scientific conferences. His academic duties include the promotion of reproducible research. He is Chevalier des Palmes Academiques.