Romain Revol
Cyber Security Engineer at Université Côte d'Azur
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Revol is a Cyber Security Engineer based in Nice with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging embedded systems design and application security. Trained as an embedded systems engineer and holder of an international master in cybersecurity from Grenoble, he has run penetration tests at Amadeus, researched vulnerabilities in self-encrypting drives at LETI, and taught cybersecurity fundamentals to master's students. He is fluent in low-level languages (Assembly, C/C++) and Python, comfortable on Linux, and brings practical expertise in cryptographic tooling and SDLC security practices. An active open-source contributor, he has improved container tooling and C++ libraries—fixing Podman Docker-compat bugs and hardening POCO and gperftools for more robust cross-platform behavior. Colleagues value him for translating deep systems knowledge into actionable security fixes and for mentoring interns in offensive security. Less obvious: his profile combines real-world penetration testing with core systems-level contributions to performance and container ecosystems, giving him a rare full-stack security perspective.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Grenoble INP - Ensimag
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (42)
container10
docker10
c-language10
compiler-errors10
multithreading10
configuration-management10
cross-platform10
dockers10
manifest10
go10
exception-handling10
warnings10
thread10
hyper-threading10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gperftools/gperftools
Jun 2017 - Oct 2023
Main gperftools repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 7 comments, 2 issues in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily focused on modifying the `gperftools` library, which is related to performance analysis. Their contributions involved refactoring code, specifically renaming and replacing `PERFTOOLS_THROW` with `PERFTOOLS_NOTHROW` across the codebase to manage exception handling. The user also addressed a deadlock issue related to thread local variables, opting to use initial exec TLS model. They further refined the code by modifying exception specifications.
containers/podman
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 4 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Romain contributed to the `podman` project by fixing bugs related to the Docker compatibility layer and adding new features. They focused on improving the manifest push functionality, including the addition of a compression format option and fixing usage of flags for remote push. They also addressed issues related to network configurations and Docker client compatibility. The user's work demonstrates a strong understanding of containerization technologies and API design within the context of Podman.
containersrunclinuxpodmandocker
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