Santiago Fernandez
Chief Information Security Officer
Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolSantiago Fernandez is a seasoned cybersecurity executive and DevSecOps enthusiast with nine years of senior experience building security programs across LATAM and Europe, currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Klar. He has a track record of creating security teams and foundations from scratch—achieving PCI certification within six months at Klar and leading a 50+ professional security organization at NaranjaX. Santiago combines hands-on cloud and product security experience (DevSecOps, SOC, GRC, product security) with academic and community leadership as a professor, conference coordinator, and ambassador for Wazuh and DevOps Institute. Certified CISSP, CISM and AWS practitioner with a Computer Science degree and a master’s in Information Security, he also advises AI-driven security startups and runs public projects on GitHub, blending technical depth with strategic, compliance-driven execution. Based in Argentina with EU citizenship, he is fluent in multicultural hiring and remote-first team building across timezones.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Maestría en Seguridad de la Información y Continuidad de Negocio., Maestría en Seguridad de la Información y Continuidad de Negocio. at UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de MurciaLicenciado en Tecnología de la Información, Tecnología de la información, Licenciado en Tecnología de la Información, Tecnología de la información at Universidad de Palermo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (39)
konga10
splunk9
api9
kong8
docker-compose8
security8
graylog7
telegram-bot7
api-manager7
docker7
telegram6
prometheus6
grafana6
ldap-authentication5
falco5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
safernandez666/cicd_app
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:233 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
safernandez666/github_actions
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:105 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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