Omar Santos
Sr Associate- CyberOps & Assurance
Austin, Texas, United States
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Omar Santos is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with 11 years of experience, currently serving as a Senior Associate in CyberOps & Assurance at American Express after progressing from Information Security Analyst roles. He holds GCIH and CompTIA Security+ certifications and brings practical incident response, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence expertise to large enterprise environments. A Texas A&M computer science graduate with a cybersecurity minor, Omar combines hands-on red-team skills—demonstrated by contributions to a widely used hacking resources repo that includes exploit examples, reverse shells, and ARP poisoning scripts—with defensive operations. Based in Austin, he blends research-led curiosity (including AI security exploration) with operational rigor, helping bridge advanced attack techniques and pragmatic mitigation strategies.
11 years of coding experience
B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Cybersecurity Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Cybersecurity Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (10)
hacking10
network-security10
exploit10
penetration-testing10
scapy10
python10
security9
buffer-overflow9
it-security9
php8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
This repository is maintained by Omar Santos (@santosomar) and includes thousands of resources related to ethical hacking, bug bounties, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), AI security, vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, and more. 🔥 Also check: https://hackertraining.org
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 3099 commits, 353 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Omar's primary contribution involved adding and modifying security-focused scripts and examples related to ethical hacking and penetration testing, including buffer overflow examples, network scanning tools using Python and Scapy, and a cookie stealer. They created a PHP reverse shell and demonstrated the use of various tools for security analysis and exploit development. Moreover, they created a script for ARP cache poisoning, showcasing practical network security techniques.
ai-securityexploitincident-responsereverse-engineeringvulnerability-research
santosomar/virtual_hacker_con
Sep 2017 - Aug 2024
Virtual Hacker Con website
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 11 months
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