Pierre Pronchery
Gubener Straße 40
10243 Berlin
Germany
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+49 (0)17 747 27481
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pierre.pronchery@defora.org
http://people.defora.org/~khorben/
French citizen, born in 1982
Skills
Security consulting:
  • Source code audits (C/C++, PHP)
  • Reverse-engineering (binaries, firmwares, protocols)
  • Penetration tests (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)
Education
Sep 2003 - Oct 2005: INSIA part-time computer engineering school, Paris (France)
Computer science engineer (systems, networks, programming, security)
Sep 2002 - July 2003: Brookes University, Oxford (United Kingdom)
Bachelor of science in Computing with Honors (system software, networks, object oriented programming, distributed systems, compiler construction)
Sep 2000 - June 2002: IUT2 Pierre Mendès-France University, Grenoble (France)
DUT (2 years Computer Science degree)
Languages: French: native, English: fluent, German: conversational
Work Experience
Since Feb 2010: Co-founder of loopb-ack IT-Security Consulting GbR
  • Security reviews
  • Exposure assessment
  • Research & Development
Since Sep 2007: DUEKIN Consulting as Freelance security consultant
  • Source code and network audits
  • Embedded systems development
  • Research in applicative flaws and reverse-engineering
Jul 2008 - Oct 2009: Bearstech with the R&D team
Feb 2006 - May 2007: n.runs AG as Security consultant
  • Source code audits (C/C++, embedded...)
  • Network penetration-tests
Jan 2005 - Oct 2005: Fpconcept as Web developper (PHP/MySQL, scholar internship)
  • Conception and development of a groupware solution
  • Deployment of websites, including an online shop
Nov 2004 - Dec 2004: Netanswer as Web developer (PHP/MySQL, scholar internship)
  • Development and support
May 2004 - Oct 2004: COVENTYA as Systems administrator (scholar internship)
  • Monitoring of servers and network equipments (Squid, Cacti, Nagios)
  • Administration of the software infrastructure (Active Directory, Lotus Domino)
  • Maintenance of user workstations, helpdesk
Apr 2002 - Sep 2002: INRIA Rhône-Alpes as software developper
  • Graphical interface in C++ and Gtk+ for the "Opale" project
Personal involvement
Participations in community events:
Contributions to the NetBSD Operating System:
  • security advisory and patch for a local DoS (CVE-2010-0561)
  • fixes and backports into NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0
  • port of the aps driver from OpenBSD
  • maintainer of 15 packages in pkgsrc-wip
Development of an experimental Operating System, DeforaOS:
  • remote and secure access to users' data
  • POSIX-compatibility layer
  • desktop environment
  • support for embedded platforms
Extra curricular activities
Music, Movies, Wushu