Alejandro Saenz
Engineering Manager, Application Security
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Saenz is an engineering manager and application security leader with a decade of experience building and hardening software at scale, currently leading Application Security at Twilio. He blends hands-on offensive and defensive expertise—from contributing front-end internationalization and UI improvements to the widely used OWASP Juice Shop to shaping product security strategy across roles from engineer to staff level. Known for strong communication and people skills, he mentors teams to adopt secure development practices while promoting continuous learning and innovation. Based in the United States, Alejandro pairs a computer science background with a pragmatic, results-driven approach that favors measurable risk reduction and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University - College of Engineering
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
owasp10
internationalization10
javascript10
front-end-development10
typescript-types9
application-security9
angular9
typescript9
typescripts9
testing8
back-end-development8
backend8
nodejs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
juice-shop/juice-shop
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily contributed to the frontend, implementing UI updates and incorporating internationalization features, including language selection. They refactored components and services, removed wallet mode functionality, and adjusted unit tests. Additionally, the user modified backend code related to language list retrieval and API calls.
owaspjavascriptvulnerableapplication-securityowasp-top-10
Whamo12/saenzag-photos-www
May 2018 - May 2021
Saenz A.G. Photograhy LLC's website built with Node.js and Angular v8.
Contributions:164 commits, 72 PRs, 123 pushes in 3 years
angularnodejs
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