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About Me

As an engineer: I like to understand how the world works, I enjoy discovering new technologies and I love solving practical challenges.

Thanks to my Network degree and my family of engineers, I am able to get quickly a good overview of complex systems.

Through my master degree specialization and my professional experience (+4 years) in Cybersecurity, I became passionate about security and privacy at work and home.

l let you judge by yourself, feel free to jump to the other sections to discover me and my background!

I am taking responsibility for

⚔ Security at home ⚔

🔑 2016

🔑 Password manager 🔑

Improving my digital security and simplifying my life with a password manager (Keepass).

🌐 Browser protection 🌐

Ensuring a safer and more private browsing thanks to : a browser such as Firefox, extensions such as NoScript and uBlock Origin and isolation functionalities such as multi-account containers.

🌐 2017

🛂 2018

🛂 MFA - Yubikey 🛂

99,9% of the compromised accounts could have been avoided with MFA (Microsoft study).

Improving my security with efficient and user-friendly solutions like Yubikey and TOTP.

📫 Secure communication 📫

Confidentiality and integrity of the communication with simple tools (Signal, Jitsi) and complex solutions (GPG - mail encryption and signing).

📫 2019 - 2020

🖬 2019 - 2021

🖬 Automated backup 🖬

Backing up and synchronizing my data (Duplicati, Syncthing and dedicated tools):

Respecting the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies of data, 2 types of storage media, 1 copy off-site

Protecting the most precious data with strong encryption (Veracrypt)

🏭 Cybersecurity Engineer 🏭

Working as a Cybersecurity engineer and as an Enterprise Security Architect for a big French company

🏭 2017 - Today

As privacy should be everyone's business, I am starting ensuring mine by using privacy-respectful solutions

More about privacy ! (external website)

Opensource

I have joined communities and conventions regarding Opensource.

I replaced closed-source apps by opensource apps which focus much more on privacy.

Reduce tracking

Retaking control of my smartphone and my data !

It was a long journey to do so, as any function on your smartphone can record your life and sell your data: from SMS to calendar, passing by location...

New web services

I changed my habits: from new mail services which do not read user's mails to new research tools which do not enclose you in a bubble, and with a privacy-respectful cloud.

Self-hosting:

my server hosted at home

Yunohost - Home Server

is an operating system to simply administrate a server while making sure it stays reliable, secure, ethical and lightweight.

I can install, manage and use applications on my own server, at home.

Nextcloud - Home Cloud

is an on-premises cloud solutions to regain control over your data (at home or for Enterprise).

With Nextcloud, I securely synchronize my data and share data with my relatives.

Other Apps !

Plenty of apps available with Yunohost!

I deploy services for my friends, my family and myself.

Education

Network and Telecom Engineer Degree

Specialized in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Master Degree

Math Physics Preparatory Courses

Hobbies

Badminton

For 20 years !

In competition with teammates and single.

And also as a coach.

"Badminton (33)" by Dee'lit under the license CC-BY 2.0

Video games and board games

From Strategy, through building, to survival video games.

I think the best survival games are vocal multiplayer !

Board games with various game play : bluff, investigation, communication, building and above all FUN !

Motorcycle

Feel the road, the wind and the sunlight.

Always be 100% focused on the road, nothing else in mind than your path.

Avoid hazardous circumstances and enjoy the ride !

And also a traveler

Open to new concepts and new ways of working by traveling, moving and working in other countries and with people from different culture than mine.

Contact Me

You can contact me by email : webmaster(AT)timetoquest.com