Daniel Santos is a Senior Information Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience defending complex environments and offensive testing across healthcare and enterprise domains. He has led red team operations and medical device security research at Mayo Clinic and recently joined Microsoft, combining deep penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and blue-team automation expertise. Comfortable in both development and operations, he built security tooling and an OAuth2 middleware early in his career and has automated FOSS security stacks with Ansible. Based in Rochester, MN, he brings a pragmatically auditable approach to security programs shaped by roles from SIEM projects to hybrid cloud defenses, and a background in computer science and information security management.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated degree in Information Security Management Information Security, Graduated degree in Information Security Management Information Security at Senac RS
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Computer Science at UERJ
CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security (code scanning), LGTM.com, and LGTM Enterprise
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
A tool to find folders excluded from AV real-time scanning using a time oracle
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
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Daniel Santos - Senior Information Security Engineer