Maxime Coquerel
Principal Cloud Security Architect at RBC
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxime Coquerel is a Principal Cloud Security Architect with over 16 years of cybersecurity leadership across Aerospace, Healthcare, and Financial sectors, now leading RBC’s global Azure and Kubernetes security program. He blends deep hands-on architecture, threat modeling, and risk assessment expertise with active collaboration with Microsoft, Google, and security startups to co-develop pragmatic cloud defenses at enterprise scale. A CNCF Ambassador and Microsoft MVP, he regularly presents original cloud-threat research at KubeCon, Microsoft Ignite and other industry forums, translating cutting-edge community work into production-ready controls. Trained at INSA Lyon and MIT’s Executive Cyber Security program, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with a practitioner’s mindset—often surfacing subtle, attack-surface trade-offs in large Kubernetes estates that others miss.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Cyber Security Certificate, Executive Cyber Security Certificate at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Master (MSc) - Information Systems Networks and Telecom, Advanced Master (MSc) - Information Systems Networks and Telecom at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonMaster (MSc) - Network Systems and Telecommunications, Master (MSc) - Network Systems and Telecommunications at Toulouse Ynov Campus
French, English
Github Skills (19)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
terraform9
resource-manager8
monkey8
azure-resource-manager8
terraform-provider8
kubernetes8
banking7
user-registration6
controls5
ldap4
azure-functions4
kong4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong-dist-azure
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
:monkey: Kong Docs for running on Azure
Contributions:4 PRs in 2 years 11 months
kongmonkeyazure-functionsazure
zigmax/azure-docs.fr-fr
Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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