Melba Lopez
(STSM) Principal SW Supply Chain & Product Security Transformation Leader
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMelba Lopez is a seasoned software and security architect based in Austin with 18+ years of engineering and leadership experience focused on cloud, virtualization, and software supply chain security. Currently a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, she architects enterprise supply chain security solutions aligned to NIST SSDF, C-SCRM and EO 14028 and leads industry efforts in Open SSF SLSA and supply chain integrity. Her background spans hands-on firmware and virtualization development through strategic vulnerability management at VMware, where she scaled programs, automation, and audit readiness across commercial and public-sector SaaS. A Penn State MPS graduate in Cybersecurity with an electrical engineering foundation, she combines low-level systems know-how with program-level security strategy—an unusual mix that powers her work on humanitarian and high-stakes security initiatives. She also co-founded Havana Banana Press L.L.C., demonstrating entrepreneurial curiosity outside core engineering roles.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA Cyber Ops, Cybersecurity, CCNA Cyber Ops, Cybersecurity at Cisco Global Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (Cohort 7)Master of Professional Studies in Information Sciences (MPS in IS), Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Professional Studies in Information Sciences (MPS in IS), Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Penn State UniversityNo Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions
, Artificial Intelligence, No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions
, Artificial Intelligence at MIT Professional EducationB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at University of Florida
Spanish
Github Skills (22)
devsecops10
cyclonedx10
supply-chain-security10
sbom10
software-composition-analysis10
security-automation10
security10
owasp10
dependency-track10
vulnerability-detection10
vulnerabilities10
sca10
artifacts9
devops9
specification7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
melba-lopez/dependency-track
May 2023 - Sep 2023
Dependency-Track is an intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain.
Contributions:4 PRs, 53 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
melba-lopez/melba-lopez
Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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