Francois is Distinguished Engineer and CTO for API Management at Broadcom Software. Previously, Francois was a member of the Ping Identity Office of the CTO. An early adopter of service orientation, Francois specialized in the application of security in distributed systems. Notably, Francois was the first developer at Layer 7 Technologies where he was part of a team who developed a best of breed API security gateway technology which disrupted a category, and continues to be used by hundreds of enterprises today.