Nelson Sanchez
Sr Cloud Threat Researcher
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Sanchez is a senior cloud threat researcher with over two decades in security, blending deep reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and threat hunting experience across Trend Micro and Palo Alto Networks. He has led teams at the Zero Day Initiative, built hunting systems and honeypot networks to find “needles in the haystack,” and publicly disclosed unique cloud and exploitation findings such as Elektra-Leak and P2PInfect. Nelson combines hands-on malware reversing across Windows, Linux, iOS and Android with engineering rigor from a Master’s in Telematics and an Automation Engineering degree. A seasoned conference speaker and author, he has presented at Virus Bulletin, BSides and RSA and contributed to CVE discoveries and patent submissions. Based in Ottawa, he pairs practical tool and rule development for detection products with strategic leadership in proactive threat discovery. An oft-overlooked strength is his long-running operational experience maintaining distributed honeypot networks and forensic tooling that scale to capture real-world campaigns.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Telematics (Informatics and Telecommunication)., Master., Master's degree, Telematics (Informatics and Telecommunication)., Master. at Polytechnic University José Antonio Echeverría, CUJAE
Spanish, English
Github Skills (30)
pattern9
matching9
yara8
vector8
knife8
pattern-matching8
similarity8
image-search7
golang7
scalable7
cosine-similarity7
nearest-neighbor-search7
cloud-native6
database6
threat-intelligence6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
trendmicro/packet_replay
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
willgamz/fragroute
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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