Olivier Potonniée
Product Manager at Thales Cybersecurity Products
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Potonniée is a Product Manager with 17+ years of experience building and steering Identity and Access Management products at Thales Cybersecurity, grounded in a PhD in distributed systems. His career spans research and architecture roles at Alcatel and Gemplus where he led standardization efforts, collaborative R&D projects, and investigations into smart-card and model-driven applications. He combines deep technical fluency with product leadership, translating complex, security-sensitive requirements into roadmaps, patents, and shipped products. An active contributor to open source tooling, he has hands-on backend experience improving data export, path logic, and legacy-service migrations in community projects like RunnerUp. Based in Marseille, he is comfortable bridging academic rigor and industrial delivery while nudging teams toward pragmatic standards and innovation. Colleagues describe him as a quietly influential engineer-manager who makes interoperability and practical research impact central to product decisions.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science - Distributed Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science - Distributed Systems at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Github Skills (10)
javas10
data-export10
exports10
sqlite10
android10
exporter10
java10
gpx9
database-design8
oauth7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jonasoreland/runnerup
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
A open source run tracker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily focused on enhancing the export functionality of the RunnerUp application. They added options to export run data to GPX and TCX formats, ensuring the selection of at least one format. The user refactored the code by removing the usage of `AUTH_CONFIG` and migrating to the `ACCOUNT.FORMAT` field. They also updated path simplification logic and preferences, as well as deprecated older services like Digifit and FunBeat.
speedometertrackerandroid
GlobalPlatform/WebApis-for-SE
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 79 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
securesecuritysecure-elementweb-application
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