Vincent Le Toux
Le Vésinet, Île-de-France, France
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Top SchoolVincent Le Toux is a seasoned security-focused software engineer with 17 years’ experience specializing in the intersection of management, processes and measurable results. Based in Le Vésinet, France, he blends deep hands-on backend development—contributing to notable open-source projects like OpenSC and PingCastle—with strategic security thinking aimed at emulating red-team rigor on the CISO side. His contributions include hardening smart card middleware, enabling Windows UNICODE/ANSI compatibility, and adding Active Directory vulnerability detection (ZeroLogon, PrintNightmare) and automation to PingCastle. Vincent pairs technical mastery with executive-level perspective (Executive MBA), enabling him to translate complex security issues into practical, auditable improvements across organizations.
17 years of coding experience
Master, Informatique, Master, Informatique at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de GrenobleExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at Université Paris DauphineExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at Université du Québec à Montréal / UQAM
Github Skills (23)
windows10
net10
git-repository10
dotnet10
c1110
security10
c1710
smartcard10
asp-net10
active-directory10
driver10
windows-security10
dotnet-core10
network-security10
csharp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
netwrix/pingcastle
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
PingCastle - Get Active Directory Security at 80% in 20% of the time
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:52 releases, 56 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions focused on modifying the core logic and data structures within the PingCastle project. They made substantial changes to the `HealthcheckData.cs`, `ADItem.cs`, `TrustAnalyzer.cs` and other core files, adding new properties, methods, and data structures related to Active Directory analysis. The user also implemented enhancements for the ZeroLogon and PrintNightmare vulnerabilities and added a bot mode to PingCastle, suggesting a focus on security-related features and improvements to the core engine's functionality. Further commits show the addition of a scanner that enumerates remote solutions, indicating the user is knowledgeable about system security and networking.
windows-servernistsoxreporting-toolsecurity
OpenSC/OpenSC
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver/Tokend
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 70 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the OpenSC library. Their contributions involved enabling UNICODE builds on Windows, adapting function calls for ANSI compatibility. They also addressed build issues and fixed WCHAR/CHAR conversion problems within the minidriver, specifically when dealing with PinPAD and compilation without OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, and also improved parameter checking, added support for missing hash algorithms, and corrected a regression issue related to unblocking, for the minidriver.
pkcs11golangsmartcardsecuritytokend
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