Pierre Pronchery
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10*** Berlin - Germany
Phone : (+49) ** *** *** **
pierre@defora.org
http://people.defora.org/~khorben/
 
Objective : To be involved in the development or assessment of system software, particularly in the security and networking fields.
Education
Sep 2003 - Oct 2005 : INSIA, part-time computer engineering school (Paris)
Computer science engineer (systems, networks, programming, security)
Sep 2002 - July 2003 : Oxford Brookes University
Bachelor of science in Computing with Honors (system software, networks, object oriented programming, distributed systems, compiler construction)
Sep 2000 - June 2002 : Grenoble Pierre Mendès-France University (IUT2)
DUT (2 years Computer Science degree)
Skills
Security consulting :
  • Source code auditing (C, UNIX, PHP)
  • Reverse-engineering (binaries, firmwares, protocols)
  • Penetration testing (hosts, networks)
  • System hardening (UNIX servers, embedded)
Programming :
  • Systems software (assembly, kernel, libc, compilers)
  • Distributed software (TCP/IP, PVM, SQL)
  • Graphical interfaces (Gtk+, SDL)
  • Web applications (PHP, XHTML/CSS, Javascript)
Systems administration :
  • GNU/Linux, BSD, and other UNIX environments
  • Deployment of services (DNS, SMTP, LDAP...)
  • Task automation (perl and shell scripting)
  • Monitoring solutions (performance, security)
Languages : French : native, English : fluent, German : conversational
Work Experience
Since Sep 2007 : Freelance security consultant
  • Source code and network auditing
  • Embedded systems development
  • Research in applicative flaws and reverse-engineering
Feb 2006 - May 2007 : n.runs AG as Security consultant
  • Source code auditing (C/C++, UNIX, embedded...)
  • Penetration testing
Jan 2005 - Oct 2005 : Fpconcept as Web developper (PHP/MySQL, scholar internship)
  • Conception and development of FPmanager, a groupware backoffice for companies
  • Deployment of two FPmanager-based websites, including an e-commerce with complete frontoffice
May 2004 - Oct 2004 : COVENTYA SAS France as Systems administrator (scholar internship)
  • Maintainance of existing installations, helpdesk
  • Monitoring of servers and network equipments (squid, cacti, nagios)
Apr 2002 - Sep 2002 : INRIA Rhône-Alpes as software developper
  • Graphical interface in C++ and Gtk+ for the "Opale" project
  • Dia plug-in for graphical presentations of the software interface
Personal projects
  • Actively participated in some computer security events (CCC, 0sec)
  • Contributing to the NetBSD operating system
  • Developping a hobby operating system, DeforaOS
Extra curricular activities
Music, Movies, Skateboarding