Nicolas Motte
CISO at Backupta
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolNicolas Motte is an international cybersecurity leader and CISO with 15 years of experience helping organizations achieve and operationalize compliance across frameworks like ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and HIPAA. He combines hands-on product and cloud experience—having led serverless, Google Cloud-based products as CTO & CISO at Talarian—with deep architecture and operational expertise from a long tenure at Amadeus driving public cloud migration, technical debt reduction and mission-critical systems. Nicolas builds GRC teams and scalable compliance programs as a consultant and vCISO, and currently leads security strategy at Backupta while scaling Lyvoc’s European GRC practice. He has founder experience building consumer social apps and a startup, which gives him a pragmatic, product-focused view of security for fast-growing companies. Trained at ENSIMAG and with a history of technical talks and cross-company collaborations, he blends rigorous engineering instincts with an evangelist’s knack for building security culture. Outside tech he brings hands-on curiosity to music, gardening, carpentry and welding—traits that mirror his practical, craft-oriented approach to security.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Double Diploma ENSIMAG-UPC Mathematics and Computer Science, Double Diploma ENSIMAG-UPC Mathematics and Computer Science at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, French, Italian, Spanish, German
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Github contributions (5)
nmotte/umon
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
nmotte/eelway_concierge
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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