Matteo Besançon
System And Security Engineer at Swiss Armed Forces
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMatteo Besançon is a systems and security engineer with nine years of hands-on experience across system administration, network architecture, and secure embedded Linux development. Currently serving in the Swiss Armed Forces after five years as a security engineer at CYSEC SA, he built and maintained complex infrastructures including an autonomous system with BGP transit, firewalls, and internal routing. His work spans cloud and on-prem services (GitLab, LDAP, hypervisors), ARM/Yocto embedded platforms with trusted boot and full-disk encryption, and bespoke VPN solutions optimized for satellite links. Trained with a bachelor from the University of Geneva and a Master of Engineering in Network and Information Security from HES‑SO, he combines formal security education with practical operational experience. Notably, he has bridged roles from physical device administration to low-level embedded security, enabling end-to-end threat mitigation across infrastructure and device stacks. Based in Lausanne, he brings a pragmatic, operator-first mindset to complex security challenges.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Network and information security, Master of Engineering Network and information security at HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentaleBaccalauréat universitaire Systèmes d'information et science des services, Baccalauréat universitaire Systèmes d'information et science des services at University of GenevaIT Studies Computer Science, IT Studies Computer Science at EPFL
English, Italian, German, French
Github Skills (1)
python2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matteo113/IntroMicroEco
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
unige-pinfo-2018/MOKATH-Backend
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Backend Repo for MOKATH Team UniKnowledge Semester Project
Contributions:59 PRs, 78 pushes, 44 branches in 2 months
semester-projectsemesterbackendnodejsmongodb
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