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Expérience

Une décennie d'ingénierie de sécurité, de construction de plateformes et de leadership.

Travail

Rôle

Senior II Security Engineer, Platform Engineering

Coveo

2024-05 — Present · Montreal, QC

  • Designed and implemented an AWS access control and identity framework enforcing least privilege, zero trust, and zero standing privilege (ZSP) principles across cloud-native workloads
  • Designed and implemented a risk-based vulnerability management solution using reachability and exploitability metrics, driving a 90% reduction in code flaw backlog
  • Operated and maintained security infrastructure as code using Terragrunt, ensuring continuous threat detection, policy enforcement, and uninterrupted security coverage
  • Delivered application security (AppSec) solutions directly to development teams, integrating security tooling into existing pipelines to shift security left and reduce remediation costs
  • Deployed and operated Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules and managed threat detections across a modern SIEM & SOAR platform, enabling rapid response to emerging attack surfaces
  • Engineered automated compliance frameworks for continuous, audit-ready proof collection of SAST, SCA, and software licensing — eliminating manual evidence gathering and accelerating compliance programs

Rôle

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Elpha Secure

2022-02 — 2024-05 · Montreal, QC

  • Singlehandedly architected and launched an InsurTech platform from the ground up, delivering 99.9% availability, scalable endpoint services, serverless AI inference, big data ingestion pipelines, and a Forensic Security Operations Center (FSOC)
  • Designed and operationalized an AI inference testing lab for active malware detection, improving true positive rates by 5% and reducing false positives by 10%
  • Drove end-to-end compliance single-handedly, obtaining SOC 2 Type 1 within 3 months, SOC 2 Type 2 within 1 month post-observation, and HIPAA compliance within 2 weeks
  • Authored and embedded organizational best practices across incident response, continuous delivery, and technical SOPs — establishing standards adopted at the leadership level
  • Executed a strategic infrastructure cost optimization initiative, achieving 40% month-over-month cost savings

Rôle

Lead Principal Security Engineer, SRE

Nuance Communications

2020-10 — 2022-02 · Montreal, QC

  • Led a security analyst team within an SRE organization through a Big Tech acquisition, ensuring vulnerability management requirements were met and delivering comprehensive audit reporting
  • Spearheaded a large-scale cloud uplift initiative that reduced total cost of ownership by 20% and cut audit cycle time by 50%
  • Automated end-to-end vulnerability management workflows, reducing mean time to patch (MTTP) by 33% and enabling daily zero-day reporting to security leadership
  • Aligned AI-based solutions with enterprise security and privacy frameworks, achieving compliance across PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HITRUST

Rôle

Software Developer, Team Lead

Genetec

2016-09 — 2020-10 · Montreal, QC

  • Led a cross-functional developer team within an incubator using Agile methodology to deliver scalable software solutions across platform pillars — identity, policy, data storage, and security
  • Architected a hybrid private PKI solution achieving full X.509, ACME, and FIPS 140-2 compliance for seamless on-premises and public cloud deployment
  • Engineered a high-performance policy engine for a Fortune 500 client’s physical access control system, meeting stringent cost targets ($0.01/user) and a 99.99% availability SLA
  • Drove major architectural refactoring of the company’s core access control platform, applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and event-driven architecture principles to improve scalability and maintainability
  • Delivered IoT integration for third-party access control software on integrated systems, leveraging functional programming paradigms to improve code reliability and maintainability

Formation & Certifications

Diplôme

Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

Microsoft Azure

2021-07 — 2021-07

Azure Security Engineer Associate certification covering identity and access management, platform protection, security operations, and data and application security.

Diplôme

Cryptoworks21

University of Waterloo

2014-05 — 2016-09

Cryptoworks21 program — advanced training in cryptography and quantum-safe security.

Diplôme

M.Sc Computer Science — Quantum Computing

Université de Montréal

2014-09 — 2016-09

Master of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Quantum Computing.

Diplôme

B.Sc Physics and Computer Science

McGill University

2010-09 — 2014-04

Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science.