Mikhaël Estérez
Co-founder & Director Of Offensive Operations
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolMikhaël Estérez is a cybersecurity founder and offensive security leader with 13 years of experience building and executing penetration testing programs across public- and private-sector clients. As Co-founder and Director of Offensive Operations at Privateer Cybersecurity, he translates hands-on red team expertise into pragmatic risk reduction for organizations that often lack mature security resources. His prior roles as Senior Information Security Consultant at Hitachi Systems Security and consultant work at CGI reflect deep experience in assessments, exploit development, and client-facing remediation guidance. Trained in cyber security and computer science at Polytechnique Montréal and Université TÉLUQ, he pairs academic rigor with practical field experience. Based in the Greater Montreal area, Mikhaël is driven by making advanced offensive techniques accessible and actionable for defenders. He often brings a research-minded approach to engagements, blending historical curiosity with technical problem solving to uncover non-obvious attack paths.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Université de MontréalCyber securiy, Cyber securiy at Polytechnique MontréalHistory, History at UQAM | Université du Québec à MontréalComputer Science, Computer Science at Université TÉLUQ
French, English, Spanish, German, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
binary-data9
metatrader8
advanced-custom-fields8
scripting7
babel-plugin6
wordpress5
select24
statistics1
quantitative1
machine-learning1
python1
data-science1
julia1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ninety47/mt4-indies
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year
ninety47/dukascopy
May 2013 - Aug 2014
LIbrary for handling binary data from Dukascopy tick files.
Contributions:37 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
binary-data
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