Alaa Fatma
Chief Technology Officer at SENSEEN
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolAlaa Fatma is a CTO and multidisciplinary software engineer with 10 years of experience building secure, production-ready systems across .NET, Python, and modern cloud stacks. She progressed from applied machine learning and computer vision research to leading architecture, microservices, streaming (Kafka/Redis) and CI/CD modernizations at SENSEEN, while also contributing to DevSecOps at GitGuardian on a well-known open-source secrets-detection tool. Comfortable across backend, UI/UX and data management (C#, WPF, SQL, R), she pairs hands-on coding with strategic decisions like introducing Keycloak/JWT auth and modular backend designs. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and security-minded — an engineer who deliberately moved beyond college projects to ship robust ML and security features in real products. Her GitHub work improving ggshield’s configuration, YAML validation and security headers highlights a knack for hardening developer tooling as well as application code.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Master's degree, Machine Learning and Data Mining at Université Jean Monnet Saint-EtienneBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Université Grenoble AlpesMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Polytech Nice Sophia
Arabic, French, English
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Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
devsecops10
python10
security10
secrets9
secrets-manager9
pytest9
yaml9
secret-management9
credentials8
scanning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GitGuardian/ggshield
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Detect and validate 400+ types of hardcoded secrets with advanced checks. Use it as a pre-commit hook, GitHub Action, or CLI for proactive secret detection and security.
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alaa primarily contributed to the core backend functionality of the `ggshield` project, focusing on configuration management, update checks, and authentication. They centralized directory access, ensured data type validation during YAML loading, and enhanced error handling. Additionally, the user worked on security-related aspects by introducing new headers with OS and Python version information for improved security context and modified testing frameworks to align with security-related error messages.
secrets-detectionsecrets-managementcredentialsiacmisconfigurations
alaabenfatma/ARMSIM
Apr 2019 - May 2020
A basic simulator for ARM
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
simulatorarmsimulation
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