Diana Alvarez

Overview

Based in Buenos Aires. I work on application security at Konfío. Moved 83% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Reduced cloud spend on product security by 36% in two quarters. Before that: Ambev and PagSeguro. Learning woodworking.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   May 2026 - Present
   Konfío · 5 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
   • Backed 46 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 21 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Security Engineer

   Mar 2024 - May 2026
   Ambev · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
   • Moved 65% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Staff Security Engineer

   Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
   PagSeguro · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 34% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 4.
4. Senior Security Engineer

   Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
   Accenture · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 5.
   • Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
5. Senior Security Engineer

   Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
   Nubank · 1 yr 5 mo · Contract · Buenos Aires, Argentina
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 44% in two quarters.

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Education

1. Universidade de São Paulo

   Bacharelado, Mathematics
   2008 - 2012