Xavier Marrugat is an Information Security Architect with a decade of experience bridging offensive security, cloud-native architectures, and AI-driven threat detection. Currently at Mercedes-Benz, he leads security reviews for AI-native applications across Azure, AWS, and GCP, combining penetration testing roots with enterprise cloud hardening. He built AI-based UEBA detection systems and established a cybersecurity innovation lab automating cloud environments with Ansible, OpenStack, and Terraform while coordinating EU secure-AI research. An adjunct professor mentoring master's theses and an active open-source maintainer (InfoHound), he enjoys turning research ideas into working prototypes where AI meets security. Based in Barcelona, he brings a practical blend of red-team rigor, research collaboration, and developer-focused security guidance.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Security Implementation and Management Course, Security Implementation and Management Course at La Salle BCN
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 12 PRs in 10 months
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