Rafael Alvarez
Chief Technology Officer at Fluid Attacks
Colombia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRafael Alvarez is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer with over 20 years of hands-on experience and eight years leading engineering and security teams at Fluid Attacks, where he oversees a 100+ person organization building cloud-native AST/ASPM products across AWS, Kubernetes, Nix, Python/TypeScript and GraphQL. A computer engineer, former penetration tester and ISO security pioneer in Colombia, he blends deep offensive security expertise with product-led engineering to accelerate vulnerability discovery and disclosure workflows. He has led the country’s first ISO 27001 certification, served on start-up evaluation juries and boards, and frequently speaks on software development and information security. Rafael also brings academic rigor from adjunct teaching in operating systems, networks and distributed systems, and holds CISA and CISSP certifications as well as recognition from international research institutions. Uncommonly for a CTO, he remains an active Debian Developer and maintains a practitioner’s focus on low-level system behavior while scaling platform operations. Based in Colombia, he combines enterprise security standards experience with startup agility to turn complex security challenges into operational products.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer, Computer Engineer at Universidad EAFITBoard of Directors programme. Internationalization programme. , Board of Directors programme. Internationalization programme. at INALDE Business SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science (unfinished), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (unfinished) at Universität des Saarlandes
Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
cve8
devops3
devsecops3
cd3
docker3
kubernetes2
keyboard2
machine-learning2
layout2
keyboard-layout2
del1
nix1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fluidattacks/awesome-cvelabs
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
A list of all awesome CVELabs
Contributions:44 reviews, 50 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year
cvecvelabsresearch-teams
jralvarezc/conf
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:131 commits, 148 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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