Summary
Rodolfo Baz is a veteran information security leader and project director from Veracruz, Mexico, with nearly a decade of formal leadership experience and roots in security research dating back to 1990. He founded and leads multiple initiatives—Certified White Hat Training Center, Certified White Hat Professional, X.25 Ethical Hacking Conferences—and currently directs OWASP Xalapa and the upcoming X.25 Security Conferences 2k26. His work blends hands-on pentesting pedagogy with large-scale community-building, running one of the region’s longstanding venues for technical security research and training. Rodolfo has steered research centers and advanced computing departments since the mid-2000s, pairing academic credentials in computer science with practical certification programs he helped create. He is known for insisting that students demonstrate deep technical mastery rather than just passing exams, an approach that shaped his training curriculum. Based in Veracruz, he continues to shape Mexico’s infosec ecosystem by combining event curation, certification, and collaborative research.
9 years of coding experience
CERTIFIED WHITE HAT PROFESSIONAL + 100, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, CERTIFIED WHITE HAT PROFESSIONAL + 100, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Centro de Investigaciones en Seguridad Informática
Licentiate degree, Computer Science, Licentiate degree, Computer Science at Universidad pacciolli
English