Sebastien Rousseau
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Wholesale Payments & AI Leader · Author of the EPAA Quantum-Safe Payments Paper · Creator of 179 open-source packages

Securing the future of banking
with agentic AI
and post-quantum cryptography.

Open-source payments, post-quantum security, and applied AI for financial services.

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# 1. Validate ISO 20022 pacs.008.001.10 (pip install pacs008)
pacs008 -t pacs.008.001.10 -m template.xml -s schema.xsd -d payments.csv --dry-run
✓ Schema validation passed
✓ Data validation passed (1 payment records)

# 2. Verify NIST FIPS 203 ML-KEM-768 KEM (cargo add kyberlib)
cargo test -p kyberlib --test test_kem
✓ test keypair_encap_decap ... ok
✓ test result: ok. 9 passed; 0 failed; finished in 0.01s

# 3. Verify live CycloneDX SBOM provenance (SLSA / Sigstore)
curl -sSLO https://sebastienrousseau.com/sbom.cdx.json && gh attestation verify sbom.cdx.json --owner sebastienrousseau
✓ Loaded 1 attestation from GitHub API (slsa.dev/provenance/v1)
✓ Verification succeeded!
ISO 20022 · SWIFT CBPR+ NIST FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) CycloneDX 1.6 + Sigstore

What I build

Open-source foundations for wholesale finance.

Tooling

Audited Rust libraries and a code security scanner, signed and shipped with a software bill of materials.

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Proof

By the numbers.

51.2M All-time downloads
3.7M Downloads, last 30 days
707 GitHub stars
179 Packages published

Most downloads come from transitive dependencies in CI/CD pipelines and production services across PyPI, crates.io, and npm · Updated .

Career

Where I've worked.

Nearly two decades of in-house payments and digital product leadership at HSBC, PayPal, Barclays, Shazam, AKQA, and Virgin Group.

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EPAA · September 2025

Why the payments industry must act now.

Regulators are treating harvest-now-decrypt-later as a credible present risk. This paper, produced for the Emerging Payments Association Asia, sets out the structural threat and the case for coordinated action across wholesale payment rails.

Read the white paper (PDF)

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