About Me

In the past years, I've been working on infrastructure security projects at one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. I've been focusing on Identity, Kubernetes security, Google Cloud, IaS with Terraform, and IAM management.

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Dani
santos.adaniele@gmail.com
K8s Slack: @dani_santos

Speaking

KubeCon Europe Amsterdam

Prevent Embarrassing Cluster Takeovers with This One Simple Trick• April 2023

This talk is about how attackers can leverage common Kubernetes setup mistakes to gain unauthorized access. We presented kubeaudit, an open-source tool developed at Shopify that detects and mitigates configuration risks, helping secure k8s resources.

Education

Concordia University

Full-Stack Immersive Diploma• Jan. 2020 - Present

I have worked on several projects which can be found on my Github.

Code University of Applied Sciences Berlin

BS.c Software Engineering (incomplete)• 2017 - 2019

I was a Teaching Assistant in Foundations of Software Engineering in the 4th semester.

Udacity

Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree (SQL, Python/Flask)• Jan 2019 - April 2019

Created a music inventory app, created an instance on AWS Lightsail and deployed it.

Work

Shopify

Sr. Infrastructure Security Engineeer• December 2020 - current

I've had the opportunity to work on different aspects of the security of the company's systems, such as Kubernetes runtime security with Falco, Google Cloud Identity Access Management, Binary Authorization (Code Signing), Infrastructure as Code via Terraform, as well as key encryption strategies. More recently, I've been involved in projects to increase the adoption of mTLS for service-to-service authentication and verifiable identities.

Shopify

Backend Developer Intern (GoLang)• May 2020 - Dec. 2020

While interning, I had the opportunity to contribute to many projects, including open sources ones such as Shopify/kubeaudit and grafeas/voucher. I also had the opportunity to work on full-stack apps written in Ruby on Rails as well as React.

Trifacta

Software Engineering Intern (Node.js)• July 2019 - Dec. 2019

Participated in the successful delivery of new features to help our Support Team provide better service to over 12.000 Companies (Google, Bosch, Bell, Pepsico, etc).

Code University Berlin

Teaching Assistant in Software Engineering (Focus on Backend with Python)• Dec. 2018 - May 2019

Gave a 4-hour workshop on Javascript supervised by prof. Dr. Adam Roe.

Campanda

Backend Developer Intern (Focus on PHP)• Dec 2018 - Oct. 2018

Implemented the first phase of the integration of the Database with Google Sheets API to help the Marketing team provide better customer support, leading to a boost in the sales of more than 5 marketplaces.

Factory Berlin

Full-stack Developer Intern (Focus on React.js)• Oct 2018 - Feb 2018

Search tool successfully delivered for the Factory community (of over 2000 members) in October 2018

Testimonials

  • I had the pleasure to work with Daniele at Factory Berlin. She worked super independent and pro-actively and grew super fast into her role.

    Michael Weiberger. Lead Experience Designer @ Lufthansa Group

    Feel free to contact me! :)