I am Celine! I am french and a senior software engineer based in Silicon Valley.

I live in Mountain View, California with my cat Niki.

I have a wide range of interests from animals, health and fitness to software and hardware security, electric cars, video games, electronic music or shooting guns!

Since I was a kid, I was crazy about animals that's why I decided to build PetSquare, my first startup. PetSquare was a web search engine dedicated to animal owners. PetSquare was created to help pet and animal owners to find good products and places for their animals.

Soon after I moved to the US I attended my first DEF CON in Las Vegas and I fell in in love with hacking and security. I gave my first talk at DEF CON 22 about video games and another talk on cheating at poker at DEF CON 24. I am now a DEF CON Goon in XZBT team!

Since shutting down my startup I have been focused on non profit work, I created Cyber Security Technologies Foundation, a 501c3 non profit organization dedicated to enabling a trustworthy cyberworld for all. Our main product: TrueTesting is focused on testing and recommending products that you can buy online without conflict of interests.

Today, I’m a full stack senior software engineer with a preference for backend. I work for Instrumentl, a grant management platform for non-profits.

Philanthropy

When Niki needed an expensive knee surgery, we were lucky enough to be able to cover it, but we know many families can't. That's why we created Niki's Fund on Waggle, a 501c3 non profit crowdfunding platform that helps pet owners pay for emergency veterinary care.

Niki's Fund supports pet owners facing unexpected illnesses or accidents with treatment costs beyond what most families can afford. We give starting contributions to campaigns on Waggle to jumpstart their fundraising, so that financial constraints don't prevent beloved animal companions from getting the care they need.

You can see the pets Niki's Fund has helped on Waggle.