Bruno Besson
Member Of The Board Of Advisors at PCI Security Standards Council
Gémenos, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolBruno Besson is a seasoned engineering leader with 17+ years building secure payment, issuance and personalization platforms and leading global R&D and data center operations at Thales. He combines deep technical expertise in software engineering, cryptography, cloud and PCI/GDPR compliance with hands-on program and change management, having run teams of up to 240 engineers across multiple continents. As Engineering Director and CTO for digital issuance he’s driven cloud and digital transformation for banking and payments, and now advises the PCI Security Standards Council representing Thales. A committed mentor and investor in the startup ecosystem, he also serves on entrepreneurial boards and helps early-stage teams scale. Based in Provence, he brings an athlete’s discipline and competitive mindset to technology strategy and operational excellence — balancing high-security rigour with product innovation.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Maths Physics Electronic, Bachelor Maths Physics Electronic at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-FerrandEngineer Electronic & Computer science, Engineer Electronic & Computer science at Polytech ClermontBac C Maths Physics, Bac C Maths Physics at Lycee Mixte d'Aubusson
English, Spanish
Github Skills (56)
garmin10
strava10
feature-extraction10
typescript10
user-interface10
polar10
browserslist10
merge10
release-management10
api10
rest10
vue10
vuejs210
rest-api10
csv10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
c2corg/transifex-pull-request-action
May 2020 - Dec 2022
A Github Action that fetches translations from transifex and proposes a pull request to merge these.
Contributions:23 releases, 551 commits, 799 PRs in 2 years 8 months
fetches-translationstranslationstranslationtransifexmerge
c2corg/serac
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:37 PRs, 60 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 7 months
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