Summary
Cristiano Santos is an AppSec and Cyber Threat Intelligence specialist with nine years of experience securing web and mobile applications, leading threat modeling and vulnerability analysis guided by OWASP DSOMM and SAMM. He combines deep DevSecOps and infrastructure expertise across on-prem and cloud environments, having operated in high-criticality contexts for government, enterprise, and consulting firms. Currently Chapter Lead at OWASP Fortaleza, AppSec Specialist at Oplium, and a postgraduate instructor at UNIFOR, he blends hands-on technical work with community leadership and teaching. A longtime Linux evangelist and open-systems enthusiast, he brings practical skills from middleware and CI/CD to incident-aware security programs. Notably, his background spans both frontline infrastructure roles (from OpenShift and Ansible to HAProxy/Nginx) and strategic AppSec leadership, giving him a rare end-to-end view of system risk and remediation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Tecnologo, Redes de Computadores, Tecnologo, Redes de Computadores at Centro Universitário Ateneu
Pós Graduação, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Pós Graduação, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism at Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR
Portuguese, English