Dominique Righetto
Subject Matter Expert (Application Security Domain)
Luxembourg
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Dominique Righetto is an Application Security subject matter expert with 13+ years of hands-on experience in offensive and defensive security, currently shaping practices at Thales Cybersecurity Services in Luxembourg. He combines practitioner work—penetration testing, secure code reviews and secure SDLC integration—with leadership in OWASP projects, including past stewardship of the widely used OWASP Cheat Sheet Series and ongoing leadership of the Secure Headers project. Dominique has improved tooling and CI/CD for community resources (linting, link validation, offline site generation and RSS integration), reflecting a pragmatic focus on quality, automation and accessibility. He also teaches application security courses and has helped operationalize mobile and web security guidance through contributions to the OWASP MSTG and W3AF. Originally from northern France, he brings a multicultural perspective and a long-term commitment to developer-friendly security guidance. Beyond consulting, he blends deep technical audit skills with DevOps-oriented solutions that make security practical for development teams.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
License, Licence Professionnelle NTIC, License, Licence Professionnelle NTIC at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-FranceBTS, Comptabilité et Gestion, BTS, Comptabilité et Gestion at Lycée André LurçatExpert de la sécurité des données, des réseaux et des systèmes (RNCP38951), Master (RNCP Niveau 7), Expert de la sécurité des données, des réseaux et des systèmes (RNCP38951), Master (RNCP Niveau 7) at Ecole 2600
English, French, luxembourgeois
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Github Skills (25)
markdown10
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userscripts10
github-ci10
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bash10
cicd10
automation10
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markdown-it10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
python9
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/CheatSheetSeries
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to provide a concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:360 commits, 90 PRs, 681 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dominique focused on improving the automated checks and build processes for the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series. They implemented scripts for linting and link validation, ensuring the quality of the Markdown cheat sheets. Furthermore, the user worked on generating an offline version of the website and integrated an RSS feed into the CI/CD pipeline. The user's contributions streamlined the build and release process, enhancing the project's maintainability and accessibility.
application-securityowaspsecurityappsec
righettod/www-project-secure-headers
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
The OWASP Secure Headers Project
Contributions:141 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 9 months
owasp
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