Benjamin Balanger
Developeur Full-Stack at Cyberwatch
St.-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Balanger is a full-stack developer with 11 years of experience, currently building secure, reliable web applications at Cyberwatch from his base in Île-de-France. He has a strong practical background in both backend and frontend work, with prior full-stack experience at leboncoin and C# development at Ivalua, and formal training from EPITECH. Benjamin contributes to open-source security tooling, notably improving the Wapiti Python web vulnerability scanner by hardening URL handling, adding attack timeouts, and fixing XSS detection and dependency issues. He combines product-focused engineering with hands-on security improvements, making him effective at shipping pragmatic features that also raise robustness. Colleagues would describe him as a developer who looks beyond visible bugs to reduce future technical risk.
11 years of coding experience
Epitech
Github Skills (9)
web-security10
scanning10
url-parsing10
python10
vulnerability-scanners10
testing9
docker8
dockers8
cryptography7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wapiti-scanner/wapiti
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Web vulnerability scanner written in Python3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improving the Wapiti web vulnerability scanner by implementing new features and fixing bugs. They added functionality to handle URLs without paths, introduced an option to set a timeout for attack modules, and refactored URL handling. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to XSS detection and dependency management, specifically downgrading a Python package to resolve build errors. These changes demonstrate a clear focus on improving the scanner's capabilities and robustness.
pythonvulnerability-scanners
jinxka/sofware-version
Jun 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 8 months
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