Félix Herrenschmidt
Cyber Security Incident Handler Thales CERT
Gémenos, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFélix Herrenschmidt is a Cyber Security Incident Handler and GCFA-certified forensic analyst with 10 years of hands-on experience at Thales CERT, where he combines incident response with R&D to harden enterprise defenses. He created and actively develops Watcher, an open-source threat-hunting platform (Django/React) that automates surveillance of digital assets and integrates toolchains like TheHive and MISP. Adept at backend development and DevOps, he focuses on stability, parsing, and permission models to make tooling production-ready. Based in Gémenos, France, he brings practical secure-by-design experience from both industry internships and leadership roles in academic organizations. Notably, his work bridges operational response and developer-driven tooling, turning incident learnings into repeatable automation.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering – Cyber Security, Master's degree, Computer Engineering – Cyber Security at ISEN - Page école - École d'ingénieurs des Hautes Technologies et du Numérique
English, French
Github Skills (12)
python10
django10
devops9
security9
apidoc9
api9
incident-response8
database-management8
malware-detection8
intrusion-detection8
threat-hunting8
webapp7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thalesgroup-cert/Watcher
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Watcher - Open Source Cybersecurity Threat Hunting Platform. Developed with Django & React JS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 1 review, 283 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Félix's commits primarily focus on back-end development tasks, including fixing parsing issues and implementing model permission changes across the Django-based cybersecurity platform. They also contributed to improving the platform's stability by resolving bugs related to TheHive/MISP export functions and fixing an error in the frontend. Furthermore, the user has demonstrated DevOps skills through the addition of default user groups within a database population script.
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thalesgroup-cert/Thalesgroup-misp-taxonomy
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
This taxonomy was designed with the aim of enabling desired sharing and preventing unwanted sharing between Thales Group security communities.
Contributions:7 releases, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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