Tao Sauvage
Principal Security Engineer at Anvil Secure
France
Summary
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Top SchoolTao Sauvage is a Principal Security Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading research and vulnerability discovery efforts at Anvil Secure from France. He combines deep code-review and exploit-focused research skills with hands-on software engineering, evidenced by open-source contributions to mature Python projects like the Sopel IRC bot and the Qtile window manager. Tao has a strong CS foundation from a French engineering degree and an Erasmus exchange, and he brings meticulous attention to code quality—fixing style, formatting and subtle bugs that improve long-lived, community-driven codebases. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security guidance that balances rigorous analysis with maintainable engineering, and his background suggests a knack for finding impactful, non-obvious issues across complex code paths.
13 years of coding experience
Diplôme d'ingénieur / Master's degree (5 years of study), Diplôme d'ingénieur / Master's degree (5 years of study) at Université de Technologie de Belfort-MontbéliardBaccalauréat, Baccalauréat at Lycée Jules HaagErasmus Exchange Semester (spring), Erasmus Exchange Semester (spring) at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
French, English, Spanish, Romanian
Github Skills (9)
pep10
irc-bot10
debug10
window-manager10
p810
irc10
qt10
python10
code-formatting10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qtile/qtile
May 2013 - Sep 2014
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Tao primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the Qtile window manager project. Their work involved addressing indentation issues, formatting code for consistency, and fixing a critical bug related to multiple matching rules for dynamic groups. Additionally, the user fixed log name issues and made minor code changes across multiple files. The commits highlight a focus on code quality and functionality.
full-featuredpythonx11qtilekde-plasma
sopel-irc/sopel
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
:robot::speech_balloon: An easy-to-use and highly extensible IRC Bot framework. Formerly Willie.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tao primarily contributed to fixing PEP8 style issues within the Willie IRC bot framework. Their work focused on improving code style in core modules like `bot.py`, `config.py`, `coretasks.py`, `db.py`, `irc.py`, `module.py`, `test_tools.py`, `tools.py`, and `web.py`. These changes indicate an effort to maintain code quality and adhere to Python coding standards, particularly within the project's backend and core functionalities. This includes also addressing a mistake on `config.py` file and fixing typo issues.
irc-botirc-bot-frameworkballoonpythonbot
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