Nicolas聽Toussaint
Open Source Expert For Orange And Orange Business at Orange Business Services
Lyon, Auvergne-Rh么ne-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Toussaint is an open source expert and senior software engineer with eight years of focused experience driving compliance, security and embedded development across Orange and Orange Business. He leads the open source compliance process and the tooling lifecycle for the Orange group, pairing hands-on development with governance and deployment responsibilities. Deeply versed in software and network security, he contributes to notable projects like FOSSology, where he implemented embedded SHA256 support and UI improvements for license compliance workflows. His background includes long-term engineering roles at Orange and prior development work in network security at Arkoon, reflecting strong operational experience in production systems. Trained in AI and computer science at The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt, he blends academic rigor with practical, audit-ready solutions for large enterprise environments. An interesting detail: he moves fluidly between low-level embedded fixes and high-level compliance processes, ensuring tools both work under the hood and meet organizational governance.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science, Computer science, Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusDUT Informatique, Computer Science, DUT Informatique, Computer Science at IUT Informatique Villeurbanne
Github Skills (10)
c1710
compliance10
type-checking10
licensing10
c1110
sha10
back-end-development9
php8
git8
devops8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fossology/fossology
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 49 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the Fossology project by integrating an embedded SHA256 implementation within the ununpack agent. They also made changes to the user interface, specifically to display both user descriptions and names in the "Assigned to" list. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging branches and addressing issues related to external authentication and the REUSE.Software standard agent.
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Orange-OpenSource/fossology
May 2020 - Dec 2021
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 102 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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