Felipe Zipitría
Senior Engineer II, Security at Life360
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Zipitría is a Senior Security Engineer with 15 years of experience building secure systems, currently driving shift-left security and incident response at Life360 from Montevideo. He combines hands-on engineering with open-source leadership as Project Leader of the OWASP Core Rule Set, improving CI/CD, rule quality, and cross-WAF compatibility for a widely used web threat defense project. His contributions span front-end and back-end work—from implementing event sites and timers to modernizing the Coraza Go WAF—demonstrating full-stack fluency in security tooling. As a lecturer and thesis supervisor at Universidad de la República, he translates research and formal methods into practical software security education and mentorship. He also helped establish Uruguay’s first private-sector CSIRT at Tilsor, delivering offensive and defensive security services and training. Known for improving automation, linting, and regex tooling in critical OSS security projects, he blends academic rigor with production-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Computer Security, Formal Methods, Distributed Computing, Master in Informatics, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Computer Security, Formal Methods, Distributed Computing, Master in Informatics at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
web-application-firewall10
waf10
testing10
css10
go10
front-end-development10
modsecurity10
jekyll10
golang10
html10
javascript9
python9
http9
owasp9
regular-expression9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
coreruleset/coreruleset
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
OWASP CRS (Official Repository)
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:15 releases, 614 reviews, 367 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on improving the robustness of the core ruleset. They implemented changes to the linting and regression testing processes, splitting actions and ensuring that linting runs on every commit. The user also addressed code formatting issues by removing whitespace at the end of lines and performed fixes in the regular expression assembly tool used by the project. Furthermore, the user merged branches and updated the rules-check script.
security-toolsrulesetcore-rule-setrulesecurity
OpenSecuritySummit/oss2018
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Open Security Summit 2018
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:913 commits, 524 PRs, 789 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Felipe implemented the countdown timer and made modifications to the venue page layout by adding and updating text and images. The user also updated the about page, adding images and changing text, added and updated tickets pages. The user made significant changes to the participant and session pages by changing layouts and adding additional information.
securitysummit
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