Genaro Almaraz
Professor at Aligo - Defensores Informáticos
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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Top SchoolGenaro Almaraz is a PhD candidate and professor with nine years of experience applying self-supervised learning to cybersecurity problems such as network intrusion, malware, and card-not-present fraud detection. He has led R&D as Lead Research Scientist at Aligo, authored multiple IEEE and domain-journal papers, and translated research into deployed tools for Kubernetes and SDN security. His background includes industry internships at Meta and Apple, hands-on data engineering at scale, and co-founding a product studio delivering web and mobile apps. Genaro blends rigorous academic work—visits to University of Ottawa and Universidad de Antioquia—with practical engineering, publishing reproducible code for production-ready anomaly detectors. Based in Monterrey, Mexico, he bridges research, teaching, and productization, often focusing on explainability and memory forensics alongside self-supervised methods. An underrated strength is his track record of turning academic prototypes into operational services and datasets used for real-world deployments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Tecnológico de MonterreyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
react8
cs504
redux2
react-native2
python2
amazon1
typescript1
javascript1
frontend1
aws1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JG-11/cs50-react-native
Feb 2020 - May 2021
My projects and homework from CS50's Mobile App Development with React Native
Contributions:27 PRs, 95 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
reactmy-projectsreact-nativemobile-appredux
JG-11/coronavirus-dashboard
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:57 commits, 60 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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