Mario Merlano
Founder & CEO at Merlano Compliance
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolMario Merlano is a serial founder and cybersecurity-focused engineering leader with eight years of experience building SaaS products and manual-first penetration testing services from Buenos Aires. He founded Merlano Defense to deliver premium, audit-ready pentests mapped to SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and NIST, and expanded that approach into Merlano Compliance to solve a common sales blocker: security posture that auditors and enterprise buyers trust. Mario combines hands-on offensive security expertise with product instincts from multiple SaaS startups—designing scalable architectures, shipping MVPs, and translating technical findings into clear business outcomes. His approach is pragmatic and evidence-driven: every compliance engagement includes manual testing and remediation validation rather than checkbox automation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
aws7
aws-amplify7
storage7
aws-s37
aws-apigateway6
aws-mobile6
javascript6
amazon-cognito6
react6
analytics5
react-native5
mobile-analytics5
cloud-services4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mariomerlano/dotfiles
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:40 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
mariomerlano/nvim-mariomerlano
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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