Romain LE BARO

Tech Lead — Security / Platform Engineer

I design and secure software platforms at scale. 15 years spanning backend development, application security and infrastructure.

LeadershipSecurity / Identity managementJava/JS developmentDevExCI/CDDocker/KubernetesTraining

A full-stack developer who moved into security, I now work as a tech lead on projects that span software development, application security and platform engineering. I enjoy building robust systems and giving teams the tooling they need to ship quickly and with confidence.

Zenika
Permanent · 5 yrs
Mar. 2025 – present · 1 yr 6 mos

Platform Engineer · CDiscount

Keycloak technical reference: local development stack, optimised CI/CD (TFS) pipeline and support for migrating CDiscount.com to Keycloak.

Oct. 2024 – Mar. 2025 · 5 mos

Eclipse Dataspace Component Developer · Dawex System

Keycloak / OIDC expertise on a business-to-business data exchange platform: integration into EDC and securing the Dataspace protocol.

Apr. 2023 – Oct. 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

Platform & DevEx Architect · Maincare

Keycloak reference within the architecture team: organisation-wide access control strategy through UMA 2 and a full rework of the developer experience.

Sept. 2021 – Apr. 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Developer / DevEx · Orange Business

Developer experience reference: reworking the CI (Gitlab CI) and the integration platform, automating the developer workstation and stabilising the tests.

2021 – present

Keycloak Trainer

Training development teams on Keycloak and identity management.

French Air Force
Fixed-term · 10 yrs
Aug. 2020 – Sept. 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Platform Engineer

Designing and running a development platform on a Kubernetes cluster, keeping the engineering teams productive through the lockdown.

Jul. 2020 – Mar. 2021 · 8 mos

Java/JS Tech Lead · Innovation Unit

Java/JS tech lead on a project management and tracking application: engineering standards, development infrastructure and growing the team.

Sept. 2018 – Jul. 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Senior Developer / OIDC Trainer · Innovation Unit

OpenID Connect and Keycloak reference on MindefConnect, the Single Sign-On solution of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, interfaced with FranceConnect.

Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2018 · 7 yrs

Java/JS Developer

Building a wide range of JEE applications.

2017-2020

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

BSc in Science and Technology, Computer Science

2010

École Supérieure d'Application des Transmissions

Elementary Certificate in Computing