Summary
Christian Gueco is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over two decades of hands-on experience and more than 11 years in senior consulting and team lead roles, currently serving as Senior Team Lead - Cybersecurity at KPMG Canada. He combines deep expertise in network/system administration, penetration testing, digital forensics, incident response, and cloud/OT/IoT security with advanced certifications including CISSP, CISA and OSWP. A Linux aficionado and open source evangelist, he independently researches data analytics, network forensics, machine learning and Zero Trust — often bridging offensive and defensive perspectives. He has led large-scale technical assessments across IT, OT and multi-cloud environments and built practical security analytics and automation stacks in production. Based in Calgary, he publishes security research and code (certifiedg33k) and is pursuing CCSP and CISM to deepen his cloud and governance skillset. Notably, his background spans both enterprise SOC operations and hands-on network operations from early NOC leadership to modern red/purple teaming, giving him rare end-to-end visibility into adversary lifecycle and defensive controls.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical Engineering (Computer & Networks), M.S. Electrical Engineering (Computer & Networks) at University of the Philippines