Nicky Santiago
Infrastructure & Security Engineer
Hello there!
My name is Nicky Santiago. I'm a security engineer who loves living at the crossroads of DevOps and Security. I care deeply about making security something teams want to build with — not something bolted on at the end — so I spend a lot of my time embedding it across the full software development lifecycle.
Currently doing work on cloud security, building and securing CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, and managing infrastructure through code with Terraform. I work closely with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes, and carry that security-first mindset into vulnerability management and hands-on penetration testing.
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Sentinel Gateway Security
Zero-trust network access layer with mTLS enforcement and short-lived certificate issuance for internal service mesh.
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Driftwatch Infra
Open-source tool that detects config drift across cloud environments and generates diff reports against Terraform state.
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PagerBuddy Tooling
Slack bot that enriches on-call alerts with runbook links, recent deploys, and owner context — cutting MTTD significantly.
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VaultSync Security
Automated secret rotation pipeline for HashiCorp Vault integrated with AWS IAM roles and ephemeral credential TTLs.