Cristina Padro
Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE
Riverview, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolCristina Padro is a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in threat intelligence, detection engineering, and cloud-native security for government and defense customers. At MITRE she designs and executes purple team scenarios, maps sensors and controls to ATT&CK, and has supported CISA and CYBERCOM with operational telemetry insights and vendor evaluations. She combines hands-on development (building CVE services, analytics, and tooling) with program-level leadership—growing teams, authoring technical guidance, and improving review processes for complex sponsor deliverables. Her background spans DevSecOps, EDR/XDR/NDR evaluations, and applied threat modeling, underpinned by an MS in Cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins. Notably, she has translated adversary emulation findings into measurable improvements in data visibility and detection across federal programs, bridging technical detection work with strategic cybersecurity outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
vulnerability10
security10
api10
cve10
sca10
vulnerabilities9
json8
automation5
caret4
security-automation3
analytics2
passenger2
javascript1
transport1
public-transport1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cristina479/cve-services
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
This repo contains future CVE services
Contributions:15 releases, 19 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 2 months
security-toolssecuritycvevulnerabilitypentesting
CVEProject/cve-services
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
This repo contains the source for the CVE Services API.
Contributions:75 reviews, 719 commits, 160 PRs in 1 year 5 months
securityapicveapi-services
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