Summary
Yves-Alexis Perez is a cybersecurity leader with 19 years’ experience at France’s ANSSI, currently coordinating technical orientations for the Expertise subdirectorate and shaping policy on open-source security, innovation and technology transfers. He previously led ANSSI’s hardware and software security lab, blending hands-on research with applied program leadership across incident response, vulnerability assessment and secure design. A long-standing Debian developer and Xfce maintainer, he brings uncommon visibility into desktop stack maintenance and distribution-wide security processes, coordinating fixes across maintainers, CERTs and downstream users. Based in Rennes, he combines national-level security stewardship with grassroots open-source practice, giving him both strategic and operational perspectives. Active on program committees for major security conferences, he influences research directions while keeping a practitioner’s focus on pragmatic, deployable solutions.
19 years of coding experience