Omar Santos
Co-Chair at OASIS
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolOmar Santos is a cybersecurity leader and Principal/Distinguished Engineer at Cisco with over two decades of experience securing large-scale networks, cloud services, and mission-critical systems for Fortune 100/500 firms and government agencies. He chairs the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) and co-chairs the Coalition for Secure AI, driving standards like VEX and SBOM to automate vulnerability disclosure and protect AI supply chains. Known for turning complex incident response and vulnerability research into repeatable engineering practices, he has driven hundreds of fixes across Cisco products while mentoring teams in offensive and defensive security. A prolific author of more than 20 books and courses and an OASIS board member, Omar blends technical depth with standards leadership to influence industry-wide security improvements. Less obvious: his background in the U.S. Marine Corps and formal training in data science and cybersecurity from Harvard inform a pragmatic, threat-informed approach to AI and infrastructure security.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Data Science, Graduate Certificate Data Science at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Cornell University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (21)
logging8
streaming8
transport7
java7
jruby6
ietf6
x5095
logstash5
post-quantum5
cryptography4
etl-framework4
api3
public-key-cryptography3
post-quantum-cryptography3
openssl3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SanKumar2015/EST-coaps
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
EST over CoAPs IETF draft
Contributions:19 commits, 16 comments, 15 issues in 1 year 8 months
ietfest
fliphil/vehicle-tracker
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
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