Carlos Holguera

DevOps Engineer

Germany12 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Mobile Application Security and Vulnerability Research.
Leader in OWASP Mobile Security projects with global coordination.
Proven track record in Security Testing Automation and Penetration Testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert specializing in Mobile Security and Security Testing Automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile SecurityCybersecurityLeadershipSecurity Testing Automation

Other Skills

Vulnerability ResearchSecurity ResearchPythonPenetration TestingAutomotive Security TestingAutomated Testing FrameworkCryptographic SmartcardsCommunication Security AnalysisTime ManagementTeam WorkGermanEnglishJapaneseSpanishReverse Engineering

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Nowsecure

3 roles

Principal Mobile Security Research Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Vulnerability ResearchSecurity ResearchMobile SecurityCybersecurityPython

Senior Mobile Security Research Engineer, Strategy Lead

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Apr 2024 · 5 mos

Vulnerability ResearchSecurity ResearchMobile SecurityCybersecurityPython

Mobile Security Research Engineer

Nov 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs

Vulnerability ResearchSecurity ResearchMobile SecurityCybersecurityPython

Owasp foundation

2 roles

Project Leader Mobile Application Security (MASTG & MASVS) - Voluntary

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos

Contributing with content for the OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG)
Definition, evaluation and adaption of security requirements of OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS)
Guiding contributors, managing issues and PRs incl. detailed technical review, content quality assurance and delivery optimization via automation
Worldwide coordination of MASTG contributors and MASVS translations in 11 languages
Regular meetings with co-leaders, synchronization across OWASP projects and with board members

Vulnerability ResearchSecurity ResearchMobile SecurityCybersecurityLeadership

Contributor and Co-author (MASTG & MASVS) - Voluntary

Jun 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Contributed with quality content
Participated and organized sessions @ OWASP Security Summit
Made presentations on behalf of the project leaders
Achieved co-authorship in 2019

Vulnerability ResearchSecurity ResearchMobile SecurityCybersecurity

Escrypt embedded security (now etas)

2 roles

Security Engineer

Jan 2014 – Sep 2021 · 7 yrs 8 mos · Germany

Technical Lead for Security Testing Automation (incl. worldwide coordination across departments, establishment of standard methodologies, infrastructure, tooling architectural design & development, sales support)
Technical Expert Mobile Application Security (incl. knowledge management, trainings and presentations)
Project Technical Leader and Team Member of strategic customer and investment projects on the areas of Automotive and Mobile Security Testing (incl. security functional testing, penetration testing)

Security Testing AutomationMobile SecurityPenetration TestingAutomotive Security Testing

Internship & Master Thesis Student

Oct 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Germany

Development of an Automated Testing Framework for cryptographic Smartcards (for ESCRYPT's product CycurKEYS)
Master Thesis: Integral Communication Security Analysis and PKI Design for Intelligent Transportation Systems (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Automated Testing FrameworkCryptographic SmartcardsCommunication Security Analysis