Mauricio Ruiz

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VP of Engineering at Opal Robotics · Application security · OWASP, cloud security

Opal Robotics
Bogotá, Colombia · COT (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
IESE
English, Spanish
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Overview

20 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Opal Robotics, where I lead the product security team. Grew the product security team from 3 to 29 engineers. Led the migration of 56 services to threat modeling. Before that: Konfío and Bradesco.

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Skills
OWASPcloud securityAppSecBurp Suitethreat modelingSASTIAM
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7 data engineer roles open on the product security team in Bogotá

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$137k-$201k + equity
Team
Product security, 6 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp R$26k-R$39k a month. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bogotá, Colombiacloud securitysastappsec
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Opal Robotics · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 729ms to 48ms.
    • Grew the product security team from 3 to 18 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 38% in two quarters.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
    Konfío · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
    • Shipped 25 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
    Bradesco · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
    Amazon · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
    • Backed 44 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  5. Security Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
    Konfío · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bogotá, Colombia
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 16 a week to 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 40% in two quarters.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from product security
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling application security.

Side project: a commute planner
2022

Built with threat modeling and Burp Suite. 1858 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. IESE
    MBA, Business Administration
    2010 - 2012
  2. Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
    Ingeniería, Information Technology
    2002 - 2006

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