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Diego Rodriguez Varela

Diego Rodriguez Varela

Fullstack security-focused developer

๐Ÿ† Developer Technologies
Spain 1 year as MVP Plain Concepts Official Profile

๐Ÿ“‹ Biography

I am a Software Development Engineer from a small town in the northwest of Spain, Ribieira Sacra. Within my work, I am particularly drawn to the focus on security. I am basically interested in exploring the methodologies and technologies that allow us to achieve secure stystems, and how we can apply these principles in organizations of different sizes. To do so, I try to achieve these goals and contribute creating safer and more reliable technological environments. Throught my career I have worked with several technnologies like: Angular JS, Angular, Vue, React, Python, Node JS, .NET, K8S, Entity Framework, Docker, Azure DevOps and several services from Azure. Now, with the latest updates in GitHub Copilot I have also been exploring how can we laverage AI to improve the quality and security of our developments, with and without previous knowledge.

โœจ High-Impact Contributions 4

Observability and security: two sides of the same cluster

Kubernetes offers us a universe of possibilities... but also many blind spots. In this talk, we will explore how to evolve from manual observation of a cluster to a complete and unified view of its entire ecosystem. We will talk about metrics, traces, and logs, how to centralize information, detect anomalous behaviour, and respond automatically to changes in the environment. We will also look to the future: how artificial intelligence can help us understand what is happening in real time within the cluster and anticipate problems before they become incidents. And, of course, we will address the most critical aspect: security and administration. Because observing everything is useless if we do not protect what we see. A session for those looking to move from “what happened?” to “I knew it.”

Speaker/Presenter at Third-party event
Nov 2025
Shift AI-Left Security: Copilot & GHAS

As developers, we want to protect our products and avoid security issues in production: data leaks, access control errors, incorrect design, poorly implemented headers, etc. Within a Shift-Left Security strategy, the aim is to verify any of our developments as soon as possible. In other words: we want to discover the problem as soon as possible, avoiding as far as possible that it reaches production. With this goal in mind, you are probably already using static and dynamic code analysis tools in some of your pipelines, but... what if we could review our work from the moment we are developing it? Or when we make a local commit? What if we also checked it in the early stages of a pipeline? This talk proposes combining the different tools provided by GitHub Copilot and GitHub Advance Security to analyze our code from a practical point of view, always with the aim of obtaining feedback as soon as possible. Impact We showed how to use these tools in-depth with security in mind.

Speaker/Presenter at Third-party event
Jun 2025
Hey copilot, help me develop this feature

In this session, we will cover the key aspects of Copilot, while testing the new preview features from a practical point of view. The goal is to help people see its potential with tips on how to use it more efficiently. Key points: 1. Available models 2. Privacy considerations 3. Commands you need to know how to use /fix /explain /doc @workspace @vscode @terminal 4. Using Copilot inline, with comments and chat mode. 5. Basic code refactoring + documentation. 6. Using configurations in settings and with markdown files to establish our code guidelines, security, etc. 7. Agents 8. Conclusions Q&A Impact I helped developers and managers see the potential of GitHub Copilot for their developer teams, from zero to an advanced level.

Speaker/Presenter at Third-party event
Apr 2025
Forget your passwords: a new beginning

The era of traditional passwords is coming to an end, and passwordless authentication is emerging as the next frontier in online security. In this talk, we will explore WebAuthn technology and how to implement it in applications to achieve secure and easy-to-use passwordless authentication. # Talk objectives: * History of security. * Public key cryptography. * WebAuthn registration flow. * Protocols and platform. * Quantum and post-quantum cryptography. * Demo and review. * Frequently asked questions. Impact: Using .NET and Identity Server I helped developers understand and incorporate the new authentication system called WebAuthn (aka Passkeys). The goal was to demonstrate how they can integrate WebAuthn to create more secure systems with public/private key infrastructure. Relegating password-based authentication to the background.

Speaker/Presenter at Third-party event
Nov 2024

Technology Focus

Developer Security

Functional Roles

Developer Consultant Trainer

Languages

๐ŸŒ English ๐ŸŒ Galician ๐ŸŒ German ๐ŸŒ Spanish

Stats

Contributions 4
Events 0
Social profiles 3
Years as MVP 1