Fermín Serna
Chief Security Officer at Databricks
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFermín Serna is a seasoned security executive with 25+ years leading large technical organizations and over a decade in senior enterprise roles, currently serving as Chief Security Officer at Databricks. He combines deep expertise in vulnerability assessment, exploit development, and product security with a track record of building high-impact teams and automated discovery pipelines. His career spans pivotal security leadership at Google, Microsoft, Citrix and a startup exit via Semmle’s acquisition by GitHub/Microsoft, reflecting both corporate and research-driven mindsets. Known for abstracting complex problems and closing systemic gaps, he has driven initiatives from exploit mitigations like EMET to large-scale fuzzing and sandboxing programs. As an advisor to critical-infrastructure cyber-risk startup DeNexus, he blends strategic go-to-market counsel with hands-on technical credibility. Based in Issaquah, WA, Fermín pairs academic grounding in computer science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid with uncommon practitioner experience in offensive research and coordinated disclosure.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineer - Masters equivalent Computer Science, Computer Science Engineer - Masters equivalent Computer Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Github Skills (8)
security7
cve5
scanner5
vulnerabilities3
cybersecurity3
pentesting3
vulnerability3
infosec2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
citrix/ioc-scanner-CVE-2019-19781
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Indicator of Compromise Scanner for CVE-2019-19781
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 7 days
scannersecurity-toolsbugbountysecuritycve
google/security-research-pocs
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Proof-of-concept codes created as part of security research done by Google Security Team.
Contributions:2 commits, 10 pushes in 11 days
securityproof-of-conceptsecurity-teamsecurity-research
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