Romain Aviolat
Group CISO at Kudelski Group
Lausanne Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolRomain Aviolat is a seasoned cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure leader with 15 years’ experience, currently serving as Group CISO at Kudelski Group after a rapid progression through CISO and principal engineering roles. Based in Lausanne, he blends hands-on engineering—early career Unix/Linux sysadmin and cloud infrastructure expertise—with strategic security leadership across product, cloud and DevSecOps domains. He contributes to open-source security tooling like DefectDojo, improving backend integrations for OAuth, Jira, Nessus parsing and API filtering, showing attention to practical developer workflows. Romain’s background includes running R&D and backbone network operations (BGP, IPv6), highlighting a rare combination of infrastructure-level networking knowledge and application security. He’s known for turning complex operational challenges into auditable, automated solutions that scale across global organizations.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ecole secondaire Collège du Plateau du JoratCFC Electronicien RTV Electronique, CFC Electronicien RTV Electronique at EPSIC École professionelle de Lausanne
French, English, German
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Github Skills (15)
vulnerability-management10
api10
python10
apidoc10
oauth10
django10
security10
api-design9
restful-api9
debug9
rest-api9
api-rest9
automations8
automation8
devsecops8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
DevSecOps, ASPM, Vulnerability Management. All on one platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 17 commits, 23 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily focused on enhancing the DefectDojo platform's backend functionality. Their contributions included adding support for Auth0 OAuth2 authentication, fixing social-auth callback URLs, and resolving issues related to Jira integration, such as pushing notes and patching findings. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to parsing Nessus CSV reports and refactored the API to fix multi-value support and improve filtering. The user also implemented various features like environment specification during scan imports and adding metadata support for findings.
pythondjangovulnerability-managementbugbountydefectdojo
eltuxusb/eltuxusb
Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
Contributions:61 commits, 4 branches in 4 years
monitorspythongui-basedhumiditygui
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