Christian Peron
Staff Security Engineer at Fastly
Greater Winnipeg Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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SeniorChristian Peron is a seasoned security engineer with over two decades researching and engineering threat identification and containment technologies, now serving as Staff Security Engineer at Fastly. He has advanced through roles from Security Researcher to senior staff, applying deep operational experience to protect a global content delivery network at scale. A long-time contributor to FreeBSD/TrustedBSD and more recently the OWASP Core Rule Set, he blends low-level systems expertise with modern web security defenses. His background includes leadership and architecture roles in boutique and enterprise security firms, giving him a pragmatic, adversary-focused approach to design. Based in Winnipeg, he pairs hands-on engineering with open-source stewardship, often tackling edge-case system security problems others overlook.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
testing10
http10
waf9
cookbook9
modsecurity9
owasp9
vagrant9
attestation9
finite-state-automata8
dfa8
lex8
lexical-analysis8
security8
lexer7
regex-validator7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fastly/ftw
Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
Framework for Testing WAFs (FTW!)
Contributions:73 commits, 32 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 5 months
testing
SpiderLabs/OWASP-CRS-regressions
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Regression tests for OWASP CRS v3
Contributions:61 commits, 12 PRs, 6 comments in 6 months
owasp
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