Deborah Basson

Cybersecurity Engineer

Graduating 2027

Open to cybersecurity roles

About

Final-year engineering student at EPITA Paris, majoring in Cybersecurity and Systems. Over two years as an apprentice at Thales, I have worked across software integration, secure development in C, and vulnerability management. I enjoy building reliable, secure systems — from low-level code to the processes that keep them safe over time.

Experience

Thales

Apprenticeship
Cybersecurity EngineerNov 2025 — present
Vulnerability managementSep 2026 — present
  • Contributed to defining the team’s security maintenance strategy, scoping the software components exposed to vulnerabilities.
  • Strengthened the systematic process used to detect vulnerabilities (CVEs, GHSAs) in source code and third-party dependencies.
  • Improved detection accuracy to focus remediation efforts on vulnerabilities with a real impact.
  • Proposed remediation strategies for critical vulnerabilities affecting the team’s tools.
Secure developmentNov 2025 — Sep 2026
  • Integrated a secure authentication module in C within a real-time radar software environment.
  • Implemented and validated security mechanisms ensuring the authentication of software components.
  • Measured and analysed real-time performance to verify compliance with system constraints.
  • Developed and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines automating integration and validation stages.
Software Integration EngineerSep 2024 — Oct 2025
  • Contributed to the development of an automated testing framework in Python with a web interface (Flask, REST API) and a CLI.
  • Generated test reports automatically in JSON and JUnit formats to track test campaigns.
  • Migrated existing test suites to the new architecture and validated them for non-regression.
  • Managed framework versioning and validated its evolutions through GitLab CI/CD.

Projects

deborah@basson:~$ ls projects/

password-vault/

EPITA · Secure Development course · team of 4 · lead developer

Password manager in C with a web interface. AES-256-GCM encryption at rest, Argon2id password hashing, TOTP two-factor authentication, TLS 1.3 only, CSRF protection, rate limiting and memory zeroing with libsodium. 66 tests, valgrind-clean, CI pipeline with automated security checks.

[C] [libsodium] [OpenSSL] [SQLite] [Criterion] [GitHub Actions]

→ github.com/deborah-basson/password-vault

posix-shell/

EPITA · systems programming · group project

POSIX-compliant shell written in C99 with no external libraries. Lexer, recursive-descent parser, AST, expansion and execution with fork/exec, pipelines and file descriptor redirections. About 7,800 lines of C and 3,200 functional tests.

[C99] [POSIX] [Autotools] [Criterion]

→ github.com/deborah-basson/posix-shell

deborah@basson:~$

Education

EPITA

Paris, France
Engineering Degree2024 — 2027
  • Major in Cybersecurity and Systems
  • Work-study program with Thales

IUT de Vannes

Vannes, France
DUT Informatique (Computer Science)2022 — 2024
  • Track: Deployment of Secure, Communicating Applications

Contact

deborah@deborahbasson.com