Jonathan Detchart

I am a distributed systems engineer and Associate Professor at ISAE-SUPAERO, specializing in fault-tolerant storage and transport architectures, with 15+ years of experience spanning both research and industry. My work is grounded in erasure coding, a mathematical technique that enables reliable data reconstruction under partial loss, applicable to both storage systems and network protocols.

I co-authored RFC 9407 (IETF), defining a real-time network coding protocol (Tetrys) that was commercially transferred to a global CDN leader. I also co-founded Speeryt, a deep-tech startup commercializing erasure coding IP.

My recent work focuses on verifiable distributed storage, combining erasure coding with cryptographic proof systems (polynomial commitments and zero-knowledge proofs) to build storage architectures where data integrity can be mathematically guaranteed.

Research Interests :

• Erasure Coding : distributed storage and reliable transport
• Verifiable Distributed Storage (FEC + cryptographic proofs)
• Applied Cryptography : zero-knowledge proofs, polynomial commitments
• Peer-to-peer architectures and decentralized systems

Teaching :

• Algorithm and Computing (Master’s Program)
  Responsible for the design and delivery of this module, focusing on algorithmic principles and practical programming skills.
• Advanced Cryptography (FISE)
  Introduction to zero-knowledge proofs with Circom, exploring the foundations of modern cryptographic practices.
• Software Engineering Fundamentals
  C programming, software tooling (Git, Bash, terminal)

Vita :

• 2023 – Present : Associate Professor, ISAE-SUPAERO : teaching and applied research in distributed systems and cryptography
• 2018 – Present : Research Engineer, ISAE-SUPAERO : distributed storage, cryptography, Rust
• 2018 – 2020 : Co-founder & Technical Lead, Speeryt : erasure coding IP commercialization
• 2015 – 2018 : PhD in Computer Science, ISAE-SUPAERO, ISAE PhD Prize
• 2012 – 2022 : Software Engineer, ISAE-SUPAERO : Tetrys protocol design, IETF standardization (RFC 9407), commercial transfer to a global CDN
• 2009 – 2012 : Software Engineer, INRIA : OpenFEC library, commercial licensing, deployed on millions of devices

Contact :

• Email : firstname.lastname isae-supaero.fr
• Phone : +33 5 61 33 84 97
• Address :
  Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace
  Département DISC, Office 07.085
  10 avenue Marc Pélegrin - BP 54 032
  31 055 Toulouse Cedex 4
  France