Nicolas Sarlin
Senior Rust Engineer at Zama
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNicolas Sarlin is a Senior Rust Engineer based in Paris with a background in cybersecurity and systems engineering, bringing roughly two years focused on Rust and nearly a decade of experience in security roles within the French Ministry of Armed Forces. He has led Rust projects to automate security analysis and served as deputy head of an SSI tooling office, blending hands-on secure development with operational security leadership. Early experience includes C driver development for embedded networking and internships in information security at CEA, reflecting strong low-level and systems foundations. Now at Zama, he applies Rust to hard problems at the intersection of security and systems software. Nicolas’s profile combines rigorous academic training in networks and distributed systems with a practical track record of delivering auditable, security-oriented tooling. A detail that stands out is his path from driver-level C work to leading Rust security automation—demonstrating adaptability across system layers.
2 years of coding experience
Informatique-spécialité Réseaux et Systèmes Répartis, Informatique-spécialité Réseaux et Systèmes Répartis at ENSEIRB-MATMECA - École nationale supérieure d'électronique, informatique, télécommunications, mathématiques et mécanique de BordeauxClasse préparatoire, Mathématiques-Physique, Classe préparatoire, Mathématiques-Physique at Lycée Massena, NiceBaccalauréat scientifique, spécialité Mathématiques, mention très bien, Baccalauréat scientifique, spécialité Mathématiques, mention très bien at Lycée Pierre et Marie Curie
Github Skills (22)
fhe10
boolean10
integer10
cryptography10
intervals10
floating-point10
rust10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
homomorphic-encryption10
trust8
crypto8
encryption8
gdpr8
security8
paillier8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zama-ai/tfhe-backward-compat-data
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Historic data for backward compatibility tests in tfhe-rs
Contributions:24 reviews, 43 PRs, 113 pushes in 9 months
nsarlin-zama/github-actions-pr-close-test
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:63 PRs, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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