Luis Ramirez
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Cape Coral, United States
Toptal member since August 20, 2026
At Webflow, Luis built and operationalized the initial application security function across product and platform engineering teams. He is a senior product and application security engineer with over 10 years of experience in secure design review, vulnerability research, and threat modeling. Luis' expertise spans attack-path analysis, exploit validation, and security automation for technology companies.
Expertise
- APIs
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
- Python
- React
- Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Work Experience
Founder | Principal
Yugen Risk Advisors
- Advised on application security, AI systems, and security architecture for early-stage and growth organizations, emphasizing observability, provenance, policy enforcement, and controllable automation.
- Provided strategic AI roadmap guidance to several large enterprise clients.
- Developed an agentic penetration testing tooling for automated web app pentests.
Senior Application Security Engineer
Webflow
- Conducted secure design review, threat modeling, and risk assessment for new product capabilities, including GenAI feature work.
- Built and operationalized Webflow’s initial AppSec function across product and platform engineering teams.
- Integrated Snyk and GitGuardian into CI/CD and developer workflows, expanding coverage while keeping findings actionable.
- Built JIRA-based vulnerability routing automation and code-ownership mapping to improve assignment, tracking, and remediation follow-through.
Senior Application Security Engineer
DataRobot
- Reviewed Python services and APIs for ML workflows.
- Threat modeled AI/ML features. Provided application security support for AI/ML workflows.
- Led vulnerability triage, cloud-migration security review, and Sqreen RASP rollout.
Associate Security Engineer
NCC Group
- Delivered hands-on security assessments across web, mobile, cloud, infrastructure, wireless, and smart-contract environments for enterprise clients.
- Conducted manual testing, architecture review, and exploit validation to identify real attacker paths beyond automated tooling.
- Served as technical lead for client engagements, coordinating execution quality, tester workstreams, and final delivery.
- Produced high-signal remediation guidance and helped clients translate findings into prioritized risk roadmaps.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Swarthmore College - Swarthmore, PA, USA
Skills
Output Software
Jira
Other
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), CI/CD Pipelines, Python, APIs, Computer Science, Computer Security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Agentic AI, Agentic AI Systems, AI Security, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Security Architecture, Web App Security, Threat Modeling, Penetration Testing, Risk Assessment, System Architecture, Technology Consulting, Technical Consulting, Technical Writing, Ruby on Rails (RoR), React, Scaling, AI Governance, AI Strategy, AI Consulting, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, Cloud Security, Risk & Compliance, SOC 2, HIPAA Compliance, Governance, IT Governance, Management Consulting, Technical Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Process Improvement, IT Strategy, Research, Communication, Kubernetes, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
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