Francisco Varela
Ingeniero En Ciberseguridad Ofensiva at Achs Seguro Laboral
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Varela is an offensive cybersecurity engineer with ~8 years of technical experience who transitioned from an academic background in astrophysics to hands-on pentesting and red team operations. He specializes in web and enterprise (Active Directory) hacking, builds pentest tooling primarily in Python and Go, and documents his methodologies and machine write-ups on a public blog and GitHub. Francisco has teaching and mentoring experience as an assistant for UC’s Ethical Hacking program and has delivered consulting and offensive testing for organizations including KPMG Chile and ACHS. His background in scientific research gives him a methodical, curiosity-driven approach to problem solving and vulnerability discovery, while his HackTheBox and open-source activity reflect continuous, practical skill development. Based in Santiago, Chile, he brings a blend of pedagogy, tooling, and real-world engagement that helps organizations turn complex attack scenarios into actionable remediation.
9 years of coding experience
Magíster en Astrofísica / MsC. in Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Magíster en Astrofísica / MsC. in Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Github Skills (13)
neovim-plugin9
lua9
ide9
nvim8
neovim8
vim8
terminology8
bash4
linux4
snakeyaml4
windows-terminal2
tree-sitter2
deserialization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
p4nchit0z/PokeASCIILogin
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 11 pushes in 5 days
gunzf0x/pentesting
Feb 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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