Jonathan Huot
Platform Lead
La Ciotat, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolJonathan Huot is a Platform Lead and hands-on engineer with nearly two decades of experience building high-availability, low-latency identity and reverse-proxy systems for global financial platforms. He combines deep expertise in OAuth2.0, security, networking and performance with practical skills in Python, Go, C/C++ and Linux to design resilient, scalable infrastructure and Secure Token Services deployed across multiple regions. At LSEG he led greenfield CIAM and gateway initiatives, patented distributed systems inventions, and guided migrations across desktop, web, mobile and Microsoft Entra integrations. His open-source contributions to oauthlib and requests-oauthlib—adding token introspection, client-authentication hardening and release/test automation—underscore a commitment to secure, well-documented tooling used by a wide developer community. Comfortable driving both architecture and gritty implementation, he thrives on understanding systems "behind the scenes" and mentoring distributed teams across Europe and Asia. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of cryptography-aware security engineering with pragmatic DevOps and automation that keeps large platforms both safe and fast.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
English, French
Stackoverflow
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259kreached
49answers
8questions
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Github Skills (26)
python10
validations10
validation10
security10
validating10
validate10
oauth10
documentation10
tox9
json9
apidoc9
sphinx9
profiling9
api9
python-requests8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
oauthlib/oauthlib
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:12 releases, 20 reviews, 345 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan implemented initial support for token introspection, adding a new endpoint for validating tokens and retrieving associated metadata. They focused on security, adding measures to ensure the request's validity, like client authentication, and addressing potential vulnerabilities. Additionally, the user improved documentation by adding links to relevant RFC specifications and clarifying claims.
request-signingpythonsigningjwt-bearer-tokensidentity
requests/requests-oauthlib
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
OAuthlib support for Python-Requests!
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 10 reviews, 92 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to improving the project's documentation and build processes. They added tox environments for testing documentation, updated the contributing guide, and integrated a release process. Additionally, they fixed Sphinx errors, indicating involvement in documentation generation and maintenance. Further contributions include adding support for new Python versions and merging code updates.
pythonoauth-clientpython3python-requestsoauth2-client
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