Summary
Guillaume Hoareau is an experienced IBM Z and LinuxONE solution engineer and security consultant who blends deep mainframe cryptography expertise with practical solution architecture to help clients modernize at speed while minimizing risk. With over a decade in security roles at IBM—including Security Technical Leader, pre-sales architect, and CTO for IBM Systems Lab Services—he specializes in pervasive encryption, data privacy, post-quantum and homomorphic encryption, and zTPS integrations. He has a strong track record of driving pre- and post-sales outcomes, contributing to IBM intellectual property and multiple patents, and earning repeated Plateau Awards for innovation. Based in Montpellier, he also champions academic outreach worldwide, translating cutting-edge research into client-ready offerings. Notably, he combines hands-on technical leadership in IBM Client Center projects with forward-looking research into security trends three years out, enabling pragmatic adoption of emerging cryptographic technologies.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree, Computer Science, Master Degree, Computer Science at Ecole Privée des Sciences de l'Informatique (EPSI)
English, French, creoles and pidgins, french-based, Spanish, mauritian creole