Olivier Dony
Data Protection Responsible
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Olivier Dony is a seasoned security and privacy leader with 16 years at Odoo, blending deep hands-on backend and DevOps engineering with GDPR and audit stewardship. As Data Protection Responsible and long‑time Security Officer, he designs compliance programs, oversees SOC1/SOC2 processes, and authors ROPA, DPIA and TIA documentation while also shaping cloud security and incident response. He began as an R&D and SaaS expert engineer, contributing to core Odoo performance, secure code practices and the runbot automated build system, and still reviews architecture and coaches engineers on database and code quality. Fluent in both technical implementation and legal/operational controls, he bridges product engineering, security and the community—having also contributed to Odoo documentation and legal templates in multiple languages. A practical polymath, he routinely translates complex security requirements into auditable, production-ready controls across engineering and cloud operations.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Engineering Computer Science, Master in Engineering Computer Science at Université catholique de Louvain
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erp10
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restructuredtext10
postgresql10
python10
rs10
odoo10
cicd10
automation10
performance-optimization10
automations10
odo10
documentation10
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Github contributions (5)
odoo/odoo-extra
Jun 2014 - May 2017
unsupported addons (runbot, document_fs)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on improving the runbot, an automated testing and build system. Their contributions include implementing features like manually marking builds as skipped, adding indexes for performance, and ensuring compatibility with different API versions. They also addressed issues related to GitHub integration, such as handling repositories without tokens and improving the /runbot/badge route. Furthermore, they optimized the build process by supporting finer-grained module selection and addressing serialization failures.
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odoo/odoo
Dec 2009 - Nov 2022
Odoo. Open Source Apps To Grow Your Business.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:627 reviews, 3771 commits, 301 PRs in 13 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the performance and security of the Odoo ERP system. Their work included resolving issues related to image handling in the web editor, optimizing database queries for improved performance in modules like `mail.thread`, and addressing access control vulnerabilities in several modules. Furthermore, the user added and refined the use of more secure methods to handle various backend processes.
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