Cristina Vaida
Senior Product Security Engineer at Snyk
Bucharest Metropolitan Area Romania
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Top SchoolCristina Vaida is a Senior Product Security Engineer based in Bucharest with a rapid-track career focused on application and product security across startups and Big Four consulting. Over the past several years she has moved from hands-on penetration testing and red teaming into product-focused roles where she drives secure SDLC adoption (SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning, secret detection), threat modeling, bug bounty management and AI security. She combines practical offensive experience from KPMG and PwC with developer-facing security partnerships and CI/CD integrations (CircleCI), enabling secure-by-design architectures and faster remediation cycles. Cristina also brings vendor assessment, incident response and WAF expertise to bridge product, dev and risk teams. Notably, she has helped operationalize ASVS 5 and NIST 800-53 controls in product environments, demonstrating a blend of compliance rigor and developer empathy.
2 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti
Github Skills (69)
security10
ide-plugin10
sarif10
vulnerabilities10
snyk10
monitor10
supply-chain-security10
monitors10
static-analysis9
intellij-plugin9
visual-studio-extension9
cli9
devsecops9
intellij9
eclipse-plugin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cvaidas/cli-test
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Contributions:20 PRs, 23 pushes, 23 branches in 5 months
Probely/simple-tls-proxy
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
A simple Nginx-based TLS 1.3 proxy with Let's Encrypt automatic certificate renewals
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 10 days
awsdockergcpnginxreverse-proxy
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