Nicolas Humblot
Head Of Software Engineering at Siteflow
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Humblot is a pragmatic and versatile Head of Software Engineering based in Brussels with 10 years of experience leading teams and shipping secure, production-grade web applications. He combines hands-on Angular/Java development and DevOps practices with people leadership, currently managing a 20-strong engineering organization and mentoring multiple team leaders. Nicolas has a strong security focus—contributing to OWASP Dependency-Check and integrating secure development processes, vulnerability management, and ISO-driven practices across projects. He has led IAM initiatives at Renault and driven architecture, database migrations, and on-premise offerings at Siteflow, balancing technical direction with stakeholder collaboration. Known for improving maintainability and test coverage in open-source security tooling, he brings a track record of turning complex security and integration challenges into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Colleagues value him for clear technical judgment, hands-on problem-solving, and an insistence on measurable quality and security outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Degree in engineering, Generic engineering training with work-study contract, Degree in engineering, Generic engineering training with work-study contract at ESIGELEC Graduate School of Engineering
French, English
Github Skills (10)
security10
javas10
software-composition-analysis10
vulnerability-detection10
java10
testing10
maven9
build-tools8
ant-task8
regex8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dependency-check/DependencyCheck
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
OWASP dependency-check is a software composition analysis utility that detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in application dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 76 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the OWASP dependency-check project. Their work involved addressing vulnerabilities by making locale-independent tests, merging code, and fixing compilation issues. The user's contributions also include refactoring, removing unused imports, and implementing a test to ensure that suppressions have the base tag set to true, which points to the user's involvement in improving the project's security and maintainability. The user also added test coverage and fixed a null pointer exception.
gradle-plugindependenciesjenkins-pluginbugbountyant-task
nhumblot/DependencyCheck
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
OWASP dependency-check is a software composition analysis utility that detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in application dependencies.
Contributions:67 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 4 months
compositiondependenciessecurity-toolsbugbountysecurity
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