Romain Garrigues
Chief Technology Officer at Newrest
London, England, France
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Top SchoolRomain Garrigues is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with over two decades of hands-on experience architecting and securing IT infrastructures across Windows, Linux, virtualization and cloud platforms. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at Newrest, culminating in leading infrastructure, security and now strategic IT direction for the group, combining deep operational knowledge with a business-oriented mindset. His expertise spans identity and access (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak), advanced AD hardening, cloud landing zones for AWS/Azure, database administration, and endpoint security/EDR deployment. A pragmatic engineer who still codes, he contributes to open-source projects from Ionic to Django tooling—work that highlights a focus on backward compatibility, robust testing and integration with real-world systems like Xero. He also specializes in bespoke EDI solutions and banking file formats (SWIFT/ISO 20022), an uncommon niche that connects enterprise operations to secure IT delivery. Based in London with a mathematically trained background and ISO 27001 implementer credentials, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, security rigor and practical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maitrise, Mathématiques, Maitrise, Mathématiques at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIImplementer/Lead Implementer ISO/CEI 27001, Passed, Implementer/Lead Implementer ISO/CEI 27001, Passed at Orsys
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Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
file-management10
javascript10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
cordova10
django10
testing10
globalization10
xero-api10
api10
angularjs10
http-request10
unit-test10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-model-utils
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Django model mixins and utilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits, 19 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the project by adding tests and fixing issues related to the `MonitorField` functionality within the Django model utils library. They addressed recursion errors, updated tests to prevent regressions, and ensured the correct behavior of the field when used with deferred fields. Their work involved modifying tests, and adjusting the `MonitorField` implementation in the `fields.py` file. Additionally, they refactored tests into separate files to improve maintainability.
djangomixins
freakboy3742/pyxero
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Python API for accessing the REST API of the Xero accounting tool.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 21 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the `pyxero` project by modifying the codebase to improve functionality and fix bugs. They updated the `ChangeLog.rst` file to reflect changes and implemented additions for Partner authentication, included the addition of user-agent in OAuth related requests. Moreover, the user updated the codebase to enhance OAuth functionalities and refined the project's ability to interface with the Xero API, including fixing timestamp formatting, improving exception handling, and handling of new parameters.
pythonrestrest-apixero
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