Summary

Cybersecurity engineer, security researcher, and senior DevOps/cloud infrastructure engineer with 15+ years of experience across penetration testing, vulnerability research, intrusion detection, applied AI for security monitoring, and large-scale cloud & HPC infrastructure. PhD in Cybersecurity (Goethe University Frankfurt, in collaboration with CERN). Co-Founder & CEO of Sakundi.

Education

• Computer Science (Cybersecurity)

  2019
  Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Blockchain Security

  2021
  Blockchain Training Alliance
• Computer Science

  2011
  Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Work Experience

• Part-Time Professor, Security/Blockchain

  2026 - Present
  Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC)

  Teach within the Cybersecurity Master's program, covering blockchain security fundamentals.
• Security & DevOps Developer

  2025 - 2026
  Modulo Labs

  Analyzed and developed cryptographic code and smart contracts for Panther, a privacy-enhancing protocol, with a focus on security review. Managed deployment pipelines and infrastructure for the protocol on the Polygon ecosystem.
• Co-Founder & CEO

  2020 - 2025
  Sakundi ÖU

  Founded and lead a security, privacy, and digital identity startup, setting technical direction and client strategy. Deliver security audits, monitoring solutions, and identity infrastructure to enterprise and protocol clients. Designed and maintained reproducible, auditable deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for client environments.
• Blockchain DevOps Engineer

  2020 - 2025
  Edenia

  Designed, deployed, and maintained Linux-based on-premise and cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC) for blockchain-focused products. Provisioned and managed Kubernetes clusters and containerized microservices. Authored Terraform modules for infrastructure-as-code. Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. Implemented observability with Grafana and Prometheus. Delivered infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems including EOSIO/Antelope, Ethereum, and Bitcoin networks.
• DevOps Engineer

  2013 - 2020
  Goethe University Frankfurt / CERN (ALICE Experiment)

  Built and maintained the security monitoring and infrastructure management system for the ALICE High-Level Trigger (HLT) computing cluster using Zabbix. Managed infrastructure-as-code and configuration management using Puppet and Ansible, enforcing hardened baselines across hundreds of compute nodes. Worked with Vagrant and OpenStack for virtual environment provisioning; contributed to the HLT read-out upgrade for LHC Run 2 (published in JINST).
• PhD Researcher, Computer Science (Cybersecurity)

  2013 - 2019
  Goethe University Frankfurt / CERN

  Researched deep learning (generative models) and isolation-based methods for intrusion detection and prevention on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). Built a Python/Perl framework implementing the research; co-authored 3 peer-reviewed papers from this work.
• Security Researcher

  2011 - 2013
  Fluid Attacks

  Performed infrastructure assessments, penetration tests, source code audits, and vulnerability assessments for banks, software development companies, and ISPs. Identified and reported multiple CVEs, including a Microsoft DirectShow memory-overwrite vulnerability (MS13-056).

Skills

Publications

• Tikuna: An Ethereum Blockchain Network Security Monitoring System

  2023
  ISPEC 2023, Springer LNCS vol. 14341

  AI-based security monitoring system for the Ethereum P2P network (nodes & validators).

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• Arhuaco: Deep Learning and Isolation Based Security for Distributed High-Throughput Computing
  Journal of Grid Computing

  PhD thesis project at CERN, with the ALICE Collaboration.

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• A Security Monitoring Framework for Virtualization Based HEP Infrastructures

  2017
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 898(10)

  With the ALICE Collaboration.

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• The ALICE High-Level Trigger Read-Out Upgrade for LHC Run 2

  2015
  JINST, IOP Publishing

  With the ALICE Collaboration.

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• Intrusion Prevention and Detection in Grid Computing — The ALICE Case

  2015
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 664(6)

  With the ALICE Collaboration.

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• O2: A Novel Combined Online and Offline Computing System for the ALICE Experiment

  2014
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 513(1)

  With the ALICE Collaboration.

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Teaching

• Blockchain Security Fundamentals

  2026
  Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC)

  Role: Part-Time Professor, Cybersecurity Master's program

Portfolio

• Tikuna
  Portfolio

  AI-based security monitoring system for the Ethereum P2P network (nodes & validators), funded by an Ethereum Foundation Academic Research grant.

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• Arhuaco
  Portfolio

  PhD thesis project at CERN: deep learning and isolation-based intrusion detection for distributed high-throughput computing.

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• Zikuani
  Portfolio

  Privacy-preserving identity verification system using zero-knowledge proofs. Backed by ZK Bankai and Polygon; DIF 2025 hackathon winner. Includes its own cloud deployment infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline.

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• ZK Voto Digital
  Portfolio

  Secure voting system using Zikuani to verify voter eligibility (humanity, citizenship, age) without exposing personal identity.

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Languages

• Spanish

  Native
• English

  Fluent
• German

  Basic