Cesar Gonzalez
Staff Security Engineer at Empathy.co
Gijón, Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolCesar Gonzalez is a Staff Security Engineer based in Gijón with a decade of experience blending DevOps, cloud-native infrastructure, and application security. He has driven security-first transformations—building automated shift-left pipelines, deploying StackRox for container visibility, and embedding OWASP SAMM and threat modeling into SDLCs—while previously architecting resilient AWS/GCP networking and Kubernetes platforms. His background spans hands-on systems work from Linux/Windows administration and Oracle PL/SQL to mobile and backend development (Java, C#, Node.js), giving him a rare full-stack perspective on risk and reliability. Cesar also founded a Security Champions program and led FinOps and RBAC initiatives that cut cloud spend and tightened privilege management, demonstrating operational impact beyond pure tooling. Known for migrating legacy systems to cloud-native stacks and automating toil with Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD and Helm, he combines pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on developer-friendly security.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Computers, Ingeniero Computers at HeliaIngernieria Informatica, Ingernieria Informatica at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AninaGlez/UI-functional-testing
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
AninaGlez/REST-functional-testing
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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