Nicolas Henneaux is an experienced SRE and platform leader with 10+ years building and operating high-scale, secure payment and cryptographic services from Belgium. He currently leads Global HSM at Worldline, running a PCI- and ISO-certified platform that handles over a billion weekly calls, and previously owned a 30+ engineer microservice platform processing 100M+ monthly transactions. Deeply versed in Java, distributed systems and storage, he pairs hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions to OWASP Dependency-Check (adding SHA256, lazy checksums and Artifactory integration)—with product and operational responsibility. Trained as an applied mathematician and research economist, he brings a quantitative mindset to designing resilient, auditable infrastructure and cryptographic solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Research master in economics, Economics, Research master in economics, Economics at Université catholique de Louvain
OWASP dependency-check is a software composition analysis utility that detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in application dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to enhancing the core functionality of the OWASP Dependency-Check tool. Their work involved adding and integrating SHA256 checksum support within the `Dependency` class and related utilities. The user refactored code to implement lazy evaluation of checksums to improve performance. The user also implemented Artifactory integration, allowing dependency artifacts to be retrieved based on their hashes.
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Nicolas Henneaux - SRE Lead - Global HSM at Worldline