Paco Hope
Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorPaco Hope is a Principal Security Engineer with two decades of experience protecting software, systems, and cloud environments, currently leading a team inside AWS Global Services that ensures consultants execute secure professional services engagements at scale. He combines deep application, infrastructure, and cloud security expertise—encryption, identity and access management, cloud forensics, and incident response—with practical delivery of code templates, policy guidance, and internal services. Previously a trusted consultant to large enterprises and a longtime security evangelist, Paco has assessed everything from startups to multinational fleets of applications across finance, retail, and gaming. A named contributor to AWS Incident Response guidance and a subject-matter expert on the AWS Security Specialty, he also co-authored two books on software security. Though his public GitHub presence is intentionally small, he remains a hands-on security engineer who still writes code and mentors partners and teams on secure cloud architecture.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
370reputation
28kreached
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Github Skills (200)
endpoint-security10
oauth2-client10
saas10
readiness10
citrix10
nist10
hardening10
devsecops10
security-hardening10
python10
backup10
arduino-library10
xcp10
pci10
incident-response10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pacohope/bsd-scripts
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
pacohope/cloudtrail-logs-to-AWS-Elasticsearch-Service
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Sending cloudtrail logs from s3 to AWS Elasticsearch using Lambda
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes in 2 days
aws-elasticsearchserverlessaws-lambdacloudtrail-logscloudtrail
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