Mark Collao
Senior Product Security Engineer II, Partnerships at HashiCorp
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Collao is a Senior Product Security Engineer focused on securing cloud-native products like HashiCorp Vault and Boundary, translating complex risks into engineering priorities across stakeholders. He built end-to-end application security programs at Tempus and led teams scaling from a single contributor to four engineers while implementing SAST, SCA, DAST, attack surface monitoring, and researcher intake processes. Mark has deep hands-on experience with threat modeling, code and architecture reviews, penetration testing, and consolidating disparate vulnerability sources into a single pane of glass for engineers and product owners. His background includes advisory and consulting roles across industries—financial services, automotive, healthcare—where he modernized security tooling and compliance workflows. Comfortable working 1:1 with engineers to remediate esoteric issues, he blends practitioner-level offensive skills with programmatic security operations. Based in Chicago, he pairs a B.S. in Information Assurance & Security Engineering with a track record of turning security findings into prioritized, actionable product improvements.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Information Assurance & Security Engineering, B.S Information Assurance & Security Engineering at DePaul University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (46)
github-api-v310
identity10
hashicorp-vault10
hashicorp10
secrets10
security10
infrastructure10
go10
api10
github-api10
vault10
golang10
access-management10
url-parser10
zero-trust10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mcollao-hc/friendly-robot
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:100 commits, 8 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 months
mcollao-hc/psychic-octo-train
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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