Summary
Cesar Vargas is an applied research and threat intelligence director with 15 years of hands-on experience in OS internals and security across UNIX, GNU/Linux, BSD and Windows environments. He blends deep technical expertise in malware analysis, binary reverse engineering and botnet tracking with practical incident response and PCI-DSS compliance consulting, having built low-cost, high-impact detection and remediation programs. His academic work includes a master's thesis creating MEDS, a machine-learning driven framework for tracking mobile malware lineage, highlighting a long-standing interest in combining ML with forensic techniques. Cesar has driven security engineering and scalable operations—from automated log-analysis incident systems to dynamic spam-filtering architectures—across telecom, EDA and e-commerce sectors. Based in the New York metro area, he brings a rare mix of research rigor and operational pragmatism that reduces false positives and delivers auditable security outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity, Master's Degree Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity at John Jay College (CUNY)
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Queens College