Maxime Gautier

Cybersecurity engineer

đź‘‹ Hello and welcome to my little space on the internet. Here, you will find some details about my profile regarding my skills, hobbies and past experiences.

About

Passionate about high technologies and computer science since I'm 15, I would like to engage my carrer into this field and into cybersecurity particularly.

I'm curious and motivated in looking for new knowledge and skills to acquire. I also enjoy learning and reusing these concepts in concrete projects as this website.

Skills

Thanks to the trainings I have followed, I have acquired some knowledge and many skills.

Development

  • System (C, ASM)

  • Python

  • Golang

  • Web (frontend, backend)

  • Bash (scripting)

  • Rust

Sysadmin

  • Operating systems

  • Virtualization

  • Cloud (k8s, docker, Openstack)

  • Devops (CICD, IaC)

Sécurité

  • Secrets management (Vault, HSM)

  • Cyptography (algorithms, protocols)

  • Reverse engineering

  • Forensic analysis

Foreign languages

With several years of study, travels as well as practice of foreign languages, this is the level I manage to acquire.

English

C1

Spanish

B1

Cursus


  • 2024

    Google Cloud certification - Professional Cloud Security Engineer

    Professional Cloud Security Engineer assessment. Gain knowledge about the security offerings on the Google Cloud products.

    • Network (VPC, firewall, VPN)
    • Cloud computing
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Key Management System (KMS)
    • Monitoring
    • Data protection (encryption, DLP)

    More : Security Engineer certification, Certification badge



  • 2019 - 2022

    Cyberdefense Engineer

    ENSIBS - Vannes (56)

    • System architecture
    • Cryptography
    • Networking
    • Software development

    More : ENSIBS



  • 2021

    TOEIC

    English certification for both oral and written comprehension.

    Final score : 950 points

    More : TOEIC



  • 2020

    "Voltaire" certification

    Certification to assess level of french in several fields (spelling, grammar et conjugation).

    Final score : 820 points

    More : Projet Voltaire (FR)



  • 2019

    SecNumacadémie

    ANSSI (French cybersecurity agency) MOOC

    • Information system security overview
    • Authentication security
    • Security about internet usage
    • Desktop and nomadism security

    More : Certification SecNumacadémie



  • 2017 - 2019

    DUT Informatique

    IUT of Lannion - Lannion (22)

    • Software development
    • Databases
    • Web development
    • Learning about computer science concepts (algorithms, design, etc.)

    More : IUT de Lannion (FR)



  • 2017

    Baccalaureat S-SI

    Lycée F. le Dantec - Lannion (22)

    • Maths major
    • With highest honours

    Link : FĂ©lix le Dantec High School


Projects

2021 -

"SĂ©minaire Facteur Humain" (Group work)

Innovation project during 3rd year of Cyberdefense Engineer course at ENSIBS & Entrepreneurial project

Description : ENSIBS “Séminaire Facteur Humain” of year 2022 & 2023 creation dedicated to Cyberdefense engineers school year. Development of a monitoring platform, scenario writing, challenges design and setup of various types (sports, dexterity, thinking, cybersecurity).

Acquis : Web development, project management, organization.

2019 -

Capture The Flag (CTF)

Participation, tests, creation

Description : Participation various Capture the flag events all over the year whether as a player, a tester and/or a challenge creator. Focus on the reverse, cryptography, forensic and pwn categories.

Acquis : Perseverance, complex problem solving.

2021 - 2022

Software programming consulting

Out-of-school work

Description : Advice and help about programming on a Fortran codebase. The whole project was included in a thermodynamic study.

Acquis : Fortran, debugging, needs comprehension.

2021 - 2022

Meal planification app (Group work)

"Fabrik ta PĂ©pite" contest

Description : Participation to "Fabrik ta PĂ©pite" contest within a team composed of 3 members. Design of a meal planification app. Business model elaboration, environment study, positioning according to the competitors. Contest has been ended with the project presentation in front of an examination board.',

Acquis : Entrepreneurship, business plan, positioning, market studies.

2020 - 2021

Hardware password manager (Group work)

Innovation project during 2nd year of Cyberdefense Engineer course at ENSIBS

Description : Hardware chip designed to store and manage securely a passwords database. The database is encrypted in its whole through AES-256 encryption scheme with a key derived from a master password held by the end-user.

Acquis : Embedded development, USB stack understanding, Trustzone and Secure Element (SE) concepts.

2020 - 2021

Hacktoberfest challenges

Participation on spare time

Description : Participation to both 2020 and 2021 editions of the Hacktoberfest challenge. The objective is to realise at least 4 pull requests on various open source projects. Contribution has been mainly made on Golang projects by either adding new features and/or correcting bugs.

Acquis : Open source philosophy, git workflow (fork, issue, pull request), golang development.

2018 - 2019

Hives monitoring system (Group work)

2nd year DUT Informatique project

Description : Design and development of a part of a hives monitoring system. The part consists of retrieving data already collected on hives, storing them and displaying them to the end user in a more visually way.

Acquis : Web & mobile development, server administration, Internet of Things (IoT).

2018

Desktop application (Group work)

DUT Informatique project

Description : Application targeting newbie in Object Oriented Programming / Design who seek to understand design model in UML and how it can be transform in a concrete programming language such as Java.

Acquis : Desktop application development, project management.

2018

Web application correction

Out-of-school work

Description : Work application intended for numérology. Allows to manage users, to generate automatically birth themes and forecasts. Debug, global enhancement, features addition.

Acquis : Web development, time management, development framework CodeIgniter.

2017 - 2018

Website (Group work)

DUT Informatique project

Description : Informative website about security testing. It explains how they evolve through history, what are the main categories of testing and how they are conducted.

Acquis : Web development, project management.

2016 - 2017

Store Somfy+ (Group work)

Upper 6th multidisciplinary project

Description : Enhancement of an automated store from Somfy by adding remote control with a smartphone through Bluetooth.

Acquis : Mobile development, system modeling, project proceedings.

2015 - 2016

Handiparking (Group work)

Tutored personal project in lower 6th

Description : Automated parking space, allowing only authorized vehicles.

Acquis : Electronic, team spirit and group work managing.

Experiences


  • 2022 -

    Security Engineer

    Network security engineer



  • 2019 - 2022

    Apprentice

    Cyberdefense engineer apprenticeship, 3 years

    Studies about secret management inside virtualized infrastructure

    • Evaluation of the needs on secrets management
    • Secret management solution study as well as the protocols induced (PKCS11, PKI)
    • Hypothesis validation through a Proof of Concept (PoC)
    • Recommendations writing

    Skills : autonomy, secret management, cloud infrastructure



  • 2019

    Intern

    End of study internship, 3 months

    Security tests addition in a webapp test strategy

    • Security validation & integration strategy definition
    • Test book definition (manual & automated)
    • Automatic tests implementation

    Skills: agile method, product test & validation



  • 2018

    Binman

    Seasonal job, 1 month

    Public road cleaning

    • Bin collection
    • Logistics

    Skills: Punctuality, teamwork, time management



  • 2017

    Cleaning man

    Seasonal job, 1 month ½

    Offices cleaning

    • Desk dusting
    • Floor mopping

    Skills: Organisation, punctuality, time mangagement



  • 2015 - 2017

    Private teacher

    Emploi lycéen, 2 années scolaires

    • Soutien scolaire au niveau collège
    • Aide aux devoirs

    ACQUIS : PĂ©dagogie, organisation



  • 2015 - 2016

    Computer fixing

    Desktop computer and laptop repairing

    • Issues identification
    • Fixing or changing of the damaged pieces

    Skills: Computer architecture, resourceful mind


Hobbies & Interests

  • Passion about cybersecurity fields

  • Interest in technology and system comprehension

  • Electronic

  • Improvisation theatre

  • Capture the flag (CTF)

  • Foreign languages learning (chinese)

  • Sports (running, Crossfit …)

  • First Aid Certification (PSC1)

Contact

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