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Available for work
Based in France
01/SALIM  MOUTALIB

INDUSTRIALAUTOMATION+ SECURITY

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Master's in Infrastructure & Cybersecurity. Industrial/IT Engineer at NaTran. I work at the seam of industrial systems, security, and AI — orchestrating agents, shipping infra, and letting LLMs handle the boring parts.

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Expertise

Engineer working across industrial automation, infrastructure, and AI. Finishing a Master's in Infrastructure & Cybersecurity while learning on the job at NaTran. I care about what actually ships, what breaks in production, and how AI changes the way we build — on the stack I run and the boring tasks I don't miss.

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Industrial Automation

Designing and deploying SCADA systems, programming PLCs, developing HMIs. Bridging OT/IT networks for real-world industrial environments using Ignition, WinCC, Modbus, OPC-UA and MQTT.

02

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure

Securing industrial control systems and IT networks. Network architecture design, ICS/OT security assessments, penetration testing, Linux administration, and cloud infrastructure with Docker & Kubernetes.

03

AI & Orchestration

Treating LLMs as infrastructure — multi-agent workflows, MCP tool use, self-hosted inference, vector stores, and RAG pipelines. Using Claude Code and agents day-to-day to ship more with fewer moving parts.

Experience

NaTran

2023 — Present

Industrial / IT Engineer · Apprenticeship

Deploying AVEVA SCADA Enterprise and building OPC UA / Modbus (TCP/RTU) simulators in Rust and Python. Administering Windows Server (AD, GPO, services), Linux, VMware ESXi and Docker environments. Designing multi-environment network flow matrices, configuring Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and Cisco switches (VLAN, routing, NAT) on a large-scale (~€30M) industrial program with heavy OT/IT coordination across architects, network & telecom teams, vendors and integrators.

ICS/OT SecurityFlow Matrices
NaTran

Echoes

2022 — Present

Builder · Side project

Where I build the tools I wish existed — SaaS, desktop apps, industrial simulators. My sandbox for shipping end-to-end and learning what actually breaks in production.

Echoes

Mercadé

Jul 2022 — Sep 2022

Database Administrator · Fixed-term contract

Administering internal databases and contributing to the transition of the GED (Electronic Document Management) base. Identifying, classifying and handling sensitive personal data to align with GDPR, structuring access controls and improving data quality (cleaning, normalisation) alongside business teams.

Database AdminGDPR / RGPDGEDData ClassificationData QualityAccess Security
Mercadé

Selected Work

01

Feedback Hub

SaaS / Developer Tools

A centralised dashboard to pull feedback, session replays, heatmaps, A/B tests, sprint planning, kanban, and competitor signals into one place. Built because I was tired of juggling eight tabs to understand a single product.

Where I learned to design multi-tenant analytics at scale

02

Project Threads

Desktop App / Developer Tools

A desktop app that treats each coding project as a threaded conversation — work, notes, and context stay together instead of scattering across tools. My attempt at a single surface for switching between repos without losing state.

Taught me how much state a developer actually carries between projects

03

Voice Echoes

Desktop App / AI Tools

Cross-platform voice-to-text running quietly in the system tray, powered by OpenAI Whisper. Ships as AppImage, deb, dmg, and nsis installers. Built to stop typing for anything over two sentences.

My first real integration of a hosted AI model into a native app

04

OPC-UA RTU Simulator

Industrial Automation

Configurable OPC UA server simulating a Remote Terminal Unit with GDS compatibility, PKI certificate management, historical data access, and 9 simulation patterns. XML-based configuration compatible with Modbus TCP Simulator format.

Production-grade OPC UA test environment

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Modbus RTU Simulator

Industrial Automation

Configurable Modbus RTU/TCP simulator for testing industrial automation systems without physical hardware. XML-driven configuration supports multiple slave devices, register maps, and realistic data simulation patterns.

Hardware-free industrial protocol testing

XML

Technical Skills

Industrial & Automation · Cybersecurity & Infrastructure · AI & Orchestration · Software Development · Tools & Platforms

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Open to work around industrial automation, infrastructure & security, and AI orchestration — especially projects where the three overlap. Always up for an interesting problem.

Open to new opportunities