# About — Nestor Angulo de Ugarte > CISSP and security leader, a decade in the field. Head of Security at Patchstack. Builds security programs from zero. 30+ international talks. Valencia. Canonical: https://nestorangulo.pro/about/ Security leader · CISSP · Builder of security programs from zero ## Biography I build security programs from zero inside technical organizations — programs that engineering teams actually run, not policy documents that sit in a shared drive. Ten years in cybersecurity, starting hands-on. Eight of them inside incident response at Sucuri and GoDaddy: thousands of compromised sites per year, malware analysis at scale, forensic work on e-commerce credit card skimmers. That work taught me to think like an attacker before thinking like a defender, and to recognize the gap between security theater and security practice. Most recently, I was Head of Security at Patchstack, where I built the entire internal security function from zero: secure development lifecycle, threat modeling embedded in engineering, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness, vendor risk, incident response, security culture. Patchstack is the global #1 CNA in 2023 and 2025, ahead of GitHub and Kernel.org — a ranking earned by the research team I previously led as Data & Research Lead. The technology was never the hard part. The organizational negotiation was. CISSP. Computer Science Engineer (ULPGC), with formal academic grounding in AI — neural networks, genetic algorithms, automata. 30+ international conference talks across Europe and Japan. Head of Technology, ISC2 Spain Chapter. Based in Valencia. ## Credentials - **CISSP — Certified Information Systems Security Professional** — ISC2 · EQF Level 7 · Valid until May 2028 ([Verify](https://www.credly.com/badges/e7de5c98-5d06-416b-bc3d-cd11b64d6416/linked_in_profile)) - **Computer Science Engineer** — Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · EQF Level 7 · 2013. Formal training in AI — neural networks, genetic algorithms, automata. ## Speaking 37 international conference appearances on web security, vulnerability intelligence, CMS security, and security culture. Selected venues: WordCamp Europe, WordCamp Tokyo, WordCamp Osaka, WordCamp Vienna, WordCamp Geneva, WordCamp Greece, WordSesh. Featured in podcasts, webinars, and interviews across multiple regions. - [Full speaking archive on this site](https://nestorangulo.pro/speaking/) - [Talks archive on WordPress.tv](https://wordpress.tv/?s=nestor+angulo) ## Service - **Head of Technology** — ISC2 Spain Chapter · Board role · Since Jan 2025 ## Publications 1. Angulo de Ugarte, N., J.J. Sánchez Medina, M.J. Galán Moreno, & E. Rubio Royo (2008). Evolutionary Computation Applied to Urban Traffic Optimization. In _Advances in Evolutionary Algorithms_. IN-TECH. ISBN 978-3-902613-32-5. (Book Chapter) 2. Angulo de Ugarte, N., J.J. Sánchez-Medina, M.J. Galán, & E. Rubio (2008). Simulation Times vs. Network Size in a Genetic Algorithm Based Urban Traffic Optimization Architecture. _International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM)_. (Conference Paper) ## For event organizers & press ### One-liner > Builds security programs from zero. 10+ years in cybersecurity, came up through incident response. CISSP. 30+ international talks. ### Short bio (~70 words) > Nestor Angulo de Ugarte is a security leader with over a decade in cybersecurity. Most recently he was Head of Security at Patchstack — a vulnerability intelligence company ranked #1 CNA globally in 2023 and 2025 — where he built the internal security program from zero. Before Patchstack he spent eight years in incident response at Sucuri and GoDaddy, handling thousands of web compromises annually with a specialization in e-commerce malware. CISSP, Computer Science Engineer, and Head of Technology at the ISC2 Spain Chapter. 30+ international talks across Europe and Japan. ### Speaker photo - [Speaker photo — portrait (JPEG)](https://nestorangulo.pro/images/photo-nestor-hires-a.jpg) - [Speaker photo — Athens (JPEG)](https://nestorangulo.pro/images/photo-nestor-hires-b.jpg) Minimum 1500px on the long side. For event programs, slides, and press coverage.