Laurent Bussard
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Strasbourg Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolLaurent Bussard is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a PhD in Network Security and over two decades of experience bridging research and product development across security, privacy, big data, IoT, speech recognition, and AI. He has a strong track record of turning proofs of concept into production services—contributing to Azure Stream Analytics, Custom Speech Service, and Presentation Translator—while publishing research, patents, and prototypes. Comfortable in multinational environments, he has worked in France, Germany, and Switzerland and routinely operates in English across collaborative projects with teams in the US, UK, and Belgium. His background in both electronics/telecommunications and formal security research gives him a rare combination of systems-level engineering and rigorous privacy-aware design. Known for incubating novel features (e.g., temporal query abstractions for CEP and model customization for speech-to-text), he excels at making advanced research practical for developers and end users. Based near Strasbourg, he continues to focus on productizing AI-driven speech technologies with an eye for secure, adaptable solutions.
3 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Network Security, Ph.D., Network Security at Eurecom + Télécom ParisTech (former ENST)Master, networks and distributed systems, Master, networks and distributed systems at Polytech'Nice-Sophia (former ESSI)Engineer, Telecommunications, Engineer, Telecommunications at HEIG-VD (former EINEV)
French, English, German
Github Skills (10)
azure10
rest-api10
swagger10
api10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
openapi10
microsoft10
speech3
speech-recognition2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
lbussard/azure-rest-api-specs-speech3.2
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure with new version of Speech Service API: v3.2-preview1
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
Azure/azure-rest-api-specs
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 1 month
apicloudspecificationsrestmicrosoft-azure
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