Philippe L
Backend Software Engineer SRE at AlumnForce - Alumni Success Platform
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe L is a Backend Software Engineer and SRE based in Paris with 11 years of experience building reliable, secure backend systems. Currently at AlumnForce, he blends backend development with site reliability practices to keep an alumni SaaS platform performant and maintainable. Trained as an engineer in networks and security at ESIEE Paris (graduated with honors), he brings a security-first mindset demonstrated by contributions to open-source tooling that harden password reset workflows and cryptography usage. Comfortable fixing low-level configuration and operational issues as well as refactoring for safer randomness and shell-escaping, he straddles development and ops to reduce production risk. Colleagues would note his practical focus on incremental improvements that deliver measurable security and stability gains.
11 years of coding experience
Ingénieur ESIEE, réseaux et sécurité par apprentissage, diplômé avec les félicitations du jury, Ingénieur ESIEE, réseaux et sécurité par apprentissage, diplômé avec les félicitations du jury at ESIEE PARIS
French, English
Github Skills (9)
php10
cryptography10
security10
1password9
ldap9
password-manager9
password-vault9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ltb-project/self-service-password
Oct 2016 - Aug 2020
Web interface to change and reset password in an LDAP directory
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 64 commits, 54 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the self-service password web interface. They corrected typos in language files, addressed a configuration issue related to the mail sending path, and added a missing variable in the configuration. The user also implemented strong cryptography using defuse-crypto and refactored the codebase to use random number generation. Finally, they enhanced the security of the application by escaping shell arguments in posthook commands.
ldapreset-passwordpasswordself-serviceself-service-password
plewin/self-service-password
Dec 2016 - Oct 2020
abandoned v2 proposal -- needs rework
Contributions:65 pushes, 73 branches in 3 years 10 months
abandoned
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