Loïc Simon
VP, Security at Tanium
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLoïc Simon is a seasoned security leader with 13 years of experience building product and cloud security programs, now serving as VP of Security at Tanium after seven years leading Product Security Engineering there. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots—from embedded Linux and driver work to application and cloud security assessments—with a strong open-source pedigree as author/contributor to widely used tools like Scout2 and contributions to Netflix's Security Monkey. Based in Durham, NC, he has a track record of translating offensive security insights into scalable tooling and repeatable methodologies for assessing AWS and multi-cloud environments. Known for bridging technical depth and executive leadership, he frequently presents at major conferences and has a background that includes both low-level systems engineering and advanced cloud security automation.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Semester Wireless Sensors Network, Erasmus Semester Wireless Sensors Network at Aalborg UniversityDUT Electronics, DUT Electronics at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Master's Degree Computer and Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree Computer and Electrical Engineering at Isep - École d'ingénieurs du numérique
English, French
Github Skills (14)
python10
security10
aws9
manage8
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
net8
management8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
networkmanager8
aws-elasticsearch8
testing7
json6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/security_monkey
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Loïc primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Security Monkey project's backend components. Their contributions include fixing type errors and key errors, particularly related to Elasticsearch integration and SWAG configuration. They also refactored and enhanced the `sync_swag` function and implemented the `sync_networks` function along with associated unit tests, increasing the project's capabilities for network management and integration.
monitorsgcpvcentersecuritymonkey
nccgroup/Scout2
Dec 2013 - Aug 2018
Security auditing tool for AWS environments
Contributions:5 releases, 1126 commits, 120 PRs in 4 years 8 months
security-toolssecuritycredentialsawssecurity-auditing-tool
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