Orlando Barrera
Sr. Technical Account Manager at Socket
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolOrlando Barrera is a Senior Technical Account Manager and security-focused technologist with 14 years of experience helping Fortune 500 customers deploy and harden web and cloud applications. He combines hands-on programming (Perl, PHP, JavaScript, C) and malware analysis skills with deep experience in WAFs, DAST tooling, Splunk integrations, and private cloud builds using Dell VRTX and OpenStack. Orlando has driven customer success and product innovation at Fastly, Rapid7, Signal Sciences, and Socket, including developing custom vulnerability checks and award-winning XSS evasion tooling for AppSpider. Comfortable across Windows, Unix/Linux, and virtualization platforms, he bridges product, security research, and operations to translate complex risks into pragmatic deployments. Based in Austin, he balances client-facing technical leadership with ongoing security research and an unexpected creative side producing electronic music.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Texas State UniversityNetwork Switching Systems Operator and Maintainer course, Network Switching Systems Operator and Maintainer course at United States Army Signal Center Fort Gordon, GAGeneral Studies, General Studies at Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Austin Community College
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Github Skills (12)
pe-file10
prediction-model10
socket9
machine-learning-workflow9
python7
cli7
rule3
sympy3
xss3
machine-learning-models2
signal2
language-design1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
obarrera/socket-action
Sep 2024 - Oct 2025
test the socket actions
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 351 pushes in 1 year
obarrera/SocketTestRepo
Jun 2024 - Jan 2026
Testing of the sample malware packages, https://docs.socket.dev/docs/sample-malware-packages
Contributions:14 PRs, 75 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
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