Francisco Casado

• Leading Cyber&InfoSec, from the technical (tooling, infrastructure, incident response) to the organizational domains (board reports, compliance, awareness, etc.)

• Led ISO 27001 certification for Fintual. Passed the external audit on the first attempt (April 2025). Drove regulatory compliance for CMF and ANCi cybersecurity requirements

• Built and maintained in-house software to automate identity and access management across the company’s IdPs, sourcing policies from a GitOps repo. Privilege changes are fast, auditable, and visible to everyone

• Built the internal incident management tooling (Django & friends), introducing standardized per-incident channels, post-mortem methodology, and regulatory reporting workflow (ANCi, CMF; CNBV)

• Define cloud architecture and security along with the CTO, covering multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Cloudflare), deployments and integration with third parties requirements

• Rolled out endpoint management and VPN for internal tools across the company. Chose privacy-respecting tooling to ease adoption and policies-as-code to reduce operational overhead

• Mentored non-developers in an internal AI upskilling program, helping them build working automations for their own workflows, aligned with security best practices

• Ran security operations: access management, incident response, pentests, bug bounty coordination, and compliance inquiries through internal legal and compliance teams

• Built an in-house access request management system (Django) when no available tool fit the need — still actively maintained after 3+ years

• Drove security awareness across the organization and advocated for foundational security infrastructure changes that were later adopted during the CISO period

Instructor for hands-on innovation and design courses:

• EL3105 - Seminar on Electrical Engineering & Technology Innovation
• EL5002 - Introduction to Design Workshop
• EL5004 - Design Workshop

• Joined a team of exceptional engineers building an emergency mechanical ventilator during the COVID-19 pandemic, with locally available parts, at the Fablab UChile

• Handled electronics prototype manufacturing and general team support as needed

• Built a little factory with 8 remote-operated robotic arms so students could learn robotics from home during the pandemic. Each cell had a Raspberry Pi and webcam to close the control loop over the web

• Designed and shipped 50+ mechatronics kits by mail to students’ homes during COVID lockdowns. We did it before MIT!

• Ran interdisciplinary project-based courses for ~100 students per semester, coordinating a teaching team across ~25 groups

• Hardware and software development for an automated and free-flow attendance tracking platform for public schools, using UHF RFID.

• Deployed 40+ units all over Santiago, remotely managed with centralized tools.