Julien Tauran
Software Engineer at mistralai
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Tauran is a software engineer with nine years of experience focused on networking systems, cybersecurity tooling, and backend development, currently contributing to Mistral AI after building networking agents at Arista Networks. He designs and maintains agents for external PHY chips, led link-layer features like PRBS and auto-negotiation, and co-developed an AI-powered ProjectHelper that streamlined code reviews across teams. Julien also contributes to notable open-source security tooling—helping modernize Wapiti, a popular Python web vulnerability scanner—and has built production backends from scratch as a freelance engineer. Comfortable across embedded networking stacks, cloud-native backends, and security tooling, he pairs hands-on implementation with a knack for improving CI, testing, and developer workflows. Based in Paris, he brings a practical international perspective from studies at EPITECH and Korea University and a track record of turning complex hardware-software integrations into maintainable, scalable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechComputer Science, Computer Science at Korea UniversityMaster's degree Project Management, Master's degree Project Management at Université de Haute-Alsace Mulhouse-Colmar
English, French, Korean
Github Skills (4)
linting10
python10
develop8
unit-testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wapiti-scanner/wapiti
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Web vulnerability scanner written in Python3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 45 commits, 35 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on improving the code quality and fixing linting errors within the project. Their contributions involved addressing issues related to protected access, raise-missing-from, deprecated arguments, and duplicate code. They also worked on fixing redefined-builtin and line-too-long linting errors. Additionally, the user updated the project by adding support for a new version of wappalyzer and added unit tests.
scannerpythonsecurity-toolsopenvasbugbounty
JulienTD/Kepler
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:13 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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