Matthew Valdes
Product Security Architect at McAfee
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Valdes is a Product Security Architect with 11 years of experience embedding application security into the SDLC and championing shift-left DevSecOps practices. Based in San Antonio, he designs and implements AppSec automation, cloud deployments, and pipeline-integrated testing to reduce rework and increase security visibility across product teams. Matthew has led AppSec programs at McAfee, Pearson and Rackspace, creating security backlogs, custom tooling and cloud infrastructure (AWS) to operationalize scanning and reporting. He combines hands-on scripting and automation (Python, Lambda, API integrations) with mentorship and cross-functional advocacy to make security practical for engineering teams. An early career systems and dev lead, he pairs deep operational familiarity with secure design, often translating compliance needs into usable engineering requirements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Network Administration, Associates, Network Administration at San Antonio CollegeAppSecUSA2015
Github Skills (17)
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
django10
security-automation10
security10
automation10
owasp10
kubernetes9
analytics9
python9
openstack8
testing8
api-security7
rackspace-cloud5
dns2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mattvaldes/vulnerable-api
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
This repository contains an example Python API that is vulnerable to several different web API attacks.
Contributions:32 commits, 7 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 months
python
mattvaldes/hellonode
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:34 pushes in 16 days
dockerfilejenkinsfiledockernodejshttp-server
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.