Randy Varela

Randy Varela, known as @hackingmess, is a cybersecurity professional with over 8 years of experience, hailing from Costa Rica. He specializes in Red Team tasks, uncovering security vulnerabilities in devices, apps, and systems.

Beyond identifying weaknesses, Randy has a passion for creatively solving issues and pushing the boundaries of design and product limitations. He is proactive, self-motivated, and excels in working independently with a knack for multitasking and maintaining enthusiasm.

Randy is well-versed in various cybersecurity domains including onstage skill-sharing through presentations and talks, pentesting multiple environments like cloud, web apps, mobile apps, APIs, on-premise setups, and WIFI devices. He also has a strong background in designing secure data centers, cloud, and hybrid systems.

His expertise extends to security audits, red teaming, pentesting, application security, open-source intelligence gathering, and hacking practices. Randy is also knowledgeable in DevOps, DevSecOps, APIs, and Python for automation purposes.

For those seeking proactive cybersecurity measures, Randy humorously invites you to engage him to test your network security before any malicious hackers do. Stay updated with his projects by following @thehackerpub.

Throughout his career, Randy Varela has held roles such as Senior System Security Engineer at Encora Inc., Red Team Lead at ATTI Cyber, Instructor técnico at ATTI Cyber, Security Solutions Architect at Akamai Technologies, Account Security Officer ASO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco TAC - Network Security Engineer at Sykes, and IT Help Desk at ITCA Centroamerica.