Mikhaël 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 Montréal
Cyber securiy, Cyber securiy at Polytechnique Montréal
History, History at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
Computer Science, Computer Science at Université TÉLUQ
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