Alejandro Villegas Rodríguez

CEO

Monte Carlo, Monaco22 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • VP of Product Security at GoDaddy.
  • Former Head of Security Engineering at Amazon.
  • Active public speaker at major security conferences.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Security Engineering Leader in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Security EngineeringOffensive SecurityLeadershipCloud ComputingCyber SecurityLegal KnowledgeNetwork EngineeringInfrastructure ManagementQuality AssuranceSoftware DevelopmentTeam ManagementWeb Hosting

Other Skills

AWS Business Professional TrainingAWS Technical Professional TrainingAccountingBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCISSPCSSCisco NetworkingCisco Systems ProductsCisco TechnologiesCloud & EnterpriseCloud EngineeringComputer SecurityCyberlawDNS

About

VP Product Security at GoDaddy ~ Champion for Entrepreneurship and DiversityFormer Head of Security Engineering for the Amazon Physical Stores portfolio. Founder and former security leader of Amazon’s Finance Technology security organization. A hands on servant Security Leader that has worked for Amazon, Microsoft, F5 Networks, Hewlett-Packard, cPanel and Softlayer (IBM) [Ev1Servers]. Enjoy attending security conferences, publishing security papers, and developing security tools with the ultimate purpose of protecting customer trust. Active in the security industry and a public speaker that has recently presented at external and internal conferences such as the International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (Turkey and Romania); the International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (Florida); the CISO Global Forum (Atlanta); Secure World Seattle and Portland; BSides San Diego, BSides Edinburgh (UK); Cloud Security Alliance (Seattle Chapter), FinSecCon ’18; FinTech RiskCon ’18; ZonCon Dublin ’18, ’19; and Hacking Diversity Vegas.Vice-président de la sécurité des produits chez GoDaddy ~ Défenseur de l'entrepreneuriat et de la diversitéAncien responsable de l'ingénierie de la sécurité pour le portefeuille de magasins physiques d'Amazon. Fondateur et ancien responsable de la sécurité de l'organisation de sécurité des technologies financières d'Amazon. Expert en sécurité opérationnel, ayant travaillé pour Amazon, Microsoft, F5 Networks, Hewlett-Packard, cPanel et Softlayer (IBM) [Ev1Servers]. Passionné par les conférences sur la sécurité, la publication d'articles et le développement d'outils de sécurité, avec pour objectif ultime de protéger la confiance des clients. Acteur actif du secteur de la sécurité et conférencier reconnu, il a récemment présenté ses travaux lors de conférences internes et externes, telles que le Symposium international sur la criminalistique numérique et la sécurité (Turquie et Roumanie) ; la Conférence internationale multidisciplinaire sur la complexité, l'informatique et la cybernétique (Floride) ; le Forum mondial des RSSI (Atlanta) ; Secure World Seattle et Portland ; BSides San Diego, BSides Édimbourg (Royaume-Uni) ; Cloud Security Alliance (section de Seattle) ; FinSecCon 2018 ; FinTech RiskCon 2018 ; ZonCon Dublin 2018 et 2019. et Hacking Diversity VegasHobbies ->Frugal Nomad: https://www.instagram.com/frugxyz/Personal: https://www.instagram.com/janomonaco/

Experience

Godaddy

VP Product Security

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Security Engineering Executive responsible for the overall attack surface of GoDaddy, Inc from a product security perspective. I support Business Units within the Domain Registration, Hosting, Commerce Platform and CARE Support Organization along with the CTO overarching scope.
  • Full Stack Core Security Engineering
  • Business Information Security Units
  • Offensive Security (Penetration Testing & Red Teaming)
  • M&A and Third Party Security
Security EngineeringOffensive SecurityM&A and Third Party Security

Amazon

Security Engineering Leader

Jul 2016Aug 2022 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

  • Humble security engineering leader for Amazon. I have the privilege of leading talented security engineering professionals and managers that tackle a myriad of business challenges via innovative customer obsessed solutions.
  • Servant Security Leadership key qualities: Listening, Humility, Authentic, Empathetic, Healing, Aware, Persuasive, Visionary, Stewardship. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”, "I have no ego to bruise attitude."
Security EngineeringServant Security LeadershipLeadership

F5 networks

Security & Privacy Legal Extern

Aug 2015Dec 2015 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • I completed a Cyber Security and Privacy focused legal externship while working as a MSFT FTE. The experience was augmented with Contract, Intellectual Property, and Employment Law tasks ad challenges.
Cyber SecurityPrivacy LawLegal Knowledge

Microsoft

Security Engineering Leader

Feb 2011Jul 2016 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bellevue, WA

  • I had the privilege and opportunity to grow my career both horizontally and vertically while learning from talented peers and leaders at MSFT. I started as an MBA and MS college hire and held a few FTE security engineering roles inclusive of positions at Trustworthy Computing, Internal Audit and Cloud & Enterprise.
Security EngineeringCloud & EnterpriseCloud Computing

Hp

Network Engineer

Mar 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Houston, Texas Area

  • I had the opportunity to manage network devices inclusive of switches, routers and load balancers as well as the DNS infrastructure at a HP global scale.
Network EngineeringDNS ManagementInfrastructure Management

Cpanel

SDET (Quality Assurance)

Jun 2006Mar 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Houston, Texas Area

  • I held support engineer and QA positions for cPanel, a company that develops web hosting software automation. I started as a support engineer and grew within that realm, subsequently moved into a SDET/QA role focused on software development lifecycle quality.
Quality AssuranceSoftware Development LifecycleSoftware Development

Alphared

Support Manager (Web Hosting)

Dec 2004Jun 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos · Houston, Texas Area

  • I managed a team of data center and web hosting engineers inclusive of a virtual team located in Manila, Philippines. I oversaw approximately 3000 servers including Windows, Linux and Unix along with the network and infrastructure necessary to maintain daily data center operations.
Team ManagementData Center OperationsInfrastructure Management

Softlayer, an ibm company (formerly ev1servers)

Web Hosting Engineer & Trainer (Web Hosting)

Jul 2003Dec 2004 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • I was a cloud engineer before the term "cloud" existed. I managed Windows, Linux and Unix based servers inclusive of web hosting automation control panels such as cPanel and Plesk.
Web HostingCloud EngineeringCloud Computing

Education

HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Master of Science HES-SO

Jan 2026Jan 2027

Seattle University School of Law

Doctor of Law (J.D.) — Intellectual Property/Cyber Law

Jan 2012Jan 2015

Sam Houston State University

MS — Digital Forensics - Information Assurance & Security

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Sam Houston State University

MBA — Economics

Jan 2009Jan 2010

University of Houston-Downtown

BBA — Finance & Computer Information Systems

Jan 2006Jan 2008

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