Summary
Guillaume Hoareau is a seasoned security and cryptography leader with more than 16 years of experience, focused on IBM Z and LinuxONE. He currently serves as IBM Z & LinuxONE Global Solution Engineer and IBM Z Security Consultant, guiding clients through rapid, risk-aware IT transformations and modernization. His expertise spans end-to-end security strategy, post-quantum cryptography, data privacy and transformation, and advanced protections like IBM Data Privacy Passports and zTPS technologies. He has led pre-sales and security architecture initiatives across IBM France, including blockchain, safer cities and IoT programs, and is a prolific inventor with multiple IBM patents and Plateau Awards. He is active in academia and industry initiatives such as EWEEK and the IBM Academic Initiative, promoting engineering and science careers to students. Based in Montpellier, France, he combines hands-on security engineering with strategic advisory to deliver secure, scalable mainframe modernization for enterprise workloads.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree, Computer Science, Master Degree, Computer Science at Ecole Privée des Sciences de l'Informatique (EPSI)
English, French, creoles and pidgins, french-based, Spanish, mauritian creole