Welcome to Alexandre Sayada's Portfolio

Hello and welcome to my portfolio website. My name is Alexandre and here, you'll find a showcase of my skills, experiences, and projects.

Professional experiences

EVERTRUST

Solution Engineer

  • Involved in various projects, from the pre-sales phase to the run phase.
    • Pre-sales: demos, requirements scoping, response to RFPs, implementation during the PoC phase.
    • Build: technical expertise in the administration, implementation and management of a public key infrastructure (PKI). Project management, cyber best practices, Post Quantum Cryptography, x509 certificates & SSH, complex and critical infrastructures... Multiple projects for major CAC40 customers.
    • Run: customer care, technical support, upsell.
  • Expertise in systems administration (Linux, particularly Enterprise Linux distributions, Windows Server, Intune, Entra, JamF...).
  • Expertise in network infrastructure.
  • Conducting key ceremonies to generate, store and, if necessary, migrate to KMS the private keys of newly-issued certification authorities.
  • Administration of HSM and KMS.
  • Automation via GitHub actions, bash scripts and Docker.
  • IaC using HashiCorp Packer to automate the creation of AWS AMIs.
  • Writing of technical documents (DAT, LLD, HLD, guides, product doc...).

Red Alert Labs

Security Engineer internship

  • Conducted FIDO VQ/FER/FIAR evaluations.
  • Successfully developed an app to speed up the process of evaluation.
  • R&D on AI through cloud-based APIs such as OpenAI and using tools in the likes of Langchain or Pinecone.
  • Risk assessment methodologies.

Studies

Certifications | Continuous Learning

Tryhackme (Introduction to Cyber Security, Pre-Security, Jr Penetration Tester), Fortinet (Intro to the Threat Landscape), UDEMY (Bash scripting, PKI), GDPR, ANSSI.

CSULB | 2023

Final semester in cyber security engineering. Studying Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Network & Information Security and Advanced Topics in Programming Languages.

ESILV & EMLV | 2019 - 2024

Double degree. Master of Engineering in Computer Science (Cyber Security & IoT) and master's degree in marketing and negotiaion.

Soft Skills Trainings | 2019 - 2024

Agile Methodologies, MBTI, Creative Problem Solving, Design Thinking, Teamwork, Emotional intelligence, collective intelligence etc.

Riga Technical University 2021 - 2022

Semester abroad studying computer science and general engineering (C++, Processor Architecture, Matlab...)

Projects

Shell in Rust

Web portfolio

Portable Python application for IRCGN

Data analysis of real estate data for Paris area

ML for malware detection

Github

LinkedIn