David Zárate
Principal CEO at NESS
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zárate is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and CEO with eight years of hands-on experience building AI-native SecOps platforms from Bogotá, Colombia. As founder of NESS, accelerated by Google for Startups, he led development of NESS Cortex AI—an AI-enriched mirror of 2M+ security assets that turns raw vulnerability alerts into contextualized remediation guidance using Vertex AI and Gemini. He pairs product vision with practitioner roots in incident remediation and cyber defense across finance, energy, and telecom, and has repeatedly moved ideas into production—from founding startups to CTO and security analyst roles. David’s blend of operational security experience and generative-AI engineering gives him a practical obsession with predicting threats rather than just reporting them. An uncommonly hands-on CEO, he still codes to turn concepts into working systems whenever an idea and a computer are at hand.
8 years of coding experience
Tecnologo en redes y seguridad informatica Administración/Administrador de sistemas redes y comunicaciones LAN/WAN, Tecnologo en redes y seguridad informatica Administración/Administrador de sistemas redes y comunicaciones LAN/WAN at UNIMINUTO ColombiaIngeniería, Ingeniería at Fundación de Educación Superior San JoséExecutive Education Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science, Executive Education Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science at Harvard University
English, Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
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wordpress8
flask7
security7
security-scanner6
android-rat6
cybersecurity4
remote-administration4
remote-administration-tool4
android4
administration3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davenisc/monkey.ip
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
davenisc/T.rex_scan
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
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