Daniel Salazar
Staff Engineer at Fluid Attacks
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Salazar is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building platform infrastructure, DevSecOps tooling, and scalable developer experience for security-focused SaaS. As one of two staff-level technical advisors to the CTO at Fluid Attacks, he led migrations to ARM64 and Nix Flakes, cut cloud costs by 50%, reduced onboarding to under an hour, and raised service reliability from 95% to 99%. He architects observable, auditable pipelines—having moved the service value chain to AWS Step Functions and built a CI/CD testing framework that halved pipeline runtimes and shortened MTTR to under five minutes. Daniel also designed ZTNA networks using Cloudflare Warp to give pentesters zero-trust, auditable access for 100+ clients and maintains a Terraform platform-engineering framework used across the company. An active open-source maintainer, he co-created Makes (presented at Black Hat Arsenal) and publishes Nix-based environment-as-code tooling that became the company standard. Based in Medellín, he speaks across Latin America about reproducible environments, monorepos at scale, and DevSecOps culture.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad EAFIT
Spanish, English
Github Skills (168)
devsecops10
pgp10
terraform10
devenv10
security10
terraform-module10
linux10
fmt10
developer-tools10
gitlab-ci10
cd10
secret-management10
gitpod10
development-environment10
docker10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dsalaza4/makes
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
A DevSecOps framework powered by Nix.
Contributions:1 commit, 160 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
devsecopskubernetesdockerdevops
fluidattacks/makes-example
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Basic example of Makes usage
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits, 46 PRs in 2 months
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