William Nicolas
Pentester · Red-Teamer
Immigration: PVT Canada application in progress · open to Jeune Professionnel visa
Experience
- Developed EvilSSP, a Windows agent for credential harvesting post-authentication.
- Designed and ran Red/Blue/Purple team scenarios for SOC training; wrote reports and playbooks.
- Built and automated a purple-team platform: provisioning, Ansible playbooks, full industrialization.
- Designed and participated in cyber-defence exercises coordinated between SOC and Red Team.
- Evolved virtualized infrastructure and integrated network/system sensors.
- Contributed to SOC deployments and incident response operations.
- L2 support, Active Directory and Azure AD management; tools: Citrix Director, InWebo, SCCM.
- Automated recurring tasks and drove continuous support improvement.
- Incident management, AD account and policy administration, technical escalation.
- Kitchen crew, supervised teams of up to 4 people.
- Managed parcels destined for supermarkets.
Education
RNCP39126 – Ingénieur en cyberdéfense (CNAM, CTI recognized)
RNCP39851 – Bac+3
RNCP37682 – Bac+2
Professional Baccalaureate
Certifications
Languages & Tools
Spoken languages
Programming languages
Tools & frameworks
Hard Skills
Malware and Windows agent development for SOC training scenarios (EvilSSP).
Red team scenario design and adversary technique emulation for SOC/purple team exercises.
Usage of Sliver, Cobalt Strike, and Metasploit.
Automated purple-team platform: Ludus, FastAPI, Ansible playbooks, provisioning and industrialization.
Soft Skills
Attack scenario design, detection gap identification, playbook tuning.
SOC, Red Team, White Team coordination across local and international exercises.
Automation projects and engineering thesis with technical scope and deadlines.
Ministry of Defence: confidentiality, security, and compliance requirements.