Enterprise Security Architecture & AppSec
Establishing defense-in-depth through systematic threat modeling (STRIDE, PASTA), OWASP ASVS/SAMM frameworks, and automated DevSecOps pipelines integrated into CI/CD environments.
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> IDENTITY: Daniel Gonçalves Araujo [@dandgabr]
> ROLE: Information Security Architect @ Dasa
> SPECIALIZATION: Enterprise Defense | AI Safety & Hardening | AppSec & DevSecOps
Architecting resilient enterprise defenses, forging containment frameworks for autonomous AI agents, and establishing continuous DevSecOps governance.
Operating at the intersection of Enterprise Defense Architecture and Emerging Autonomous Tech, I engineer security frameworks that prevent exploitation before code reaches production and isolate autonomous agents operating in developer workspaces.
My engineering approach is rooted in systems programming, microcontroller diagnostics, and threat containment. With 7+ years of academic background lecturing algorithms, computer security, and electronics, I combine pedagogical clarity with technical rigor in application security, threat modeling, and secure software development lifecycles.
Establishing defense-in-depth through systematic threat modeling (STRIDE, PASTA), OWASP ASVS/SAMM frameworks, and automated DevSecOps pipelines integrated into CI/CD environments.
Pioneering practical sandboxing for developer AI tooling. Designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) validation layers and agent skill frameworks to prevent prompt injection and tool misuse.
Automating security policy enforcement, infrastructure hardening (CIS Benchmarks), container integrity, and compliance controls across multi-cloud environments (AWS & Azure).
Enterprise defense design, policy enforcement, and resilient DevSecOps integration.
Hardening autonomous agents, sandbox containment, and protocol-level integration.
Enterprise cloud defense, operating system hardening, compliance baselines, and infrastructure security.
Languages and automation pipelines for rapid validation and reproducible reporting.
Applied cryptography, distributed-ledger fundamentals and smart-contract engineering.
Monitors AI provider quotas, reset times and API spending from the Linux desktop, with a native GNOME Shell extension.
A dependency-free skill and agent framework that packages engineering judgment as reusable, versioned artifacts, with a concurrency governor that caps and accounts for every agent a workflow spawns.
An interactive gallery for exploring and comparing interface styles by applying their design tokens to a live demo panel.
A security management training proposal with structured learning material and a study application for desktop or browser.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server interface for Cheat Engine, enabling programmatic inspection, process automation, and security telemetry for AI assistants.
An mitmproxy-based security layer for Model Context Protocol traffic, intercepting, decoding, and inspecting tool calls between agents and servers to surface prompt injection and tool misuse.
An MCP server for mapping codebases and producing architecture documentation for AI agent harnesses.
A Linux security assessment and compliance tool for collecting evidence, checking controls and supporting hardening.
A reusable Typst presentation theme inspired by Google Developer Groups, with layouts, colors, typography and a sample deck.
Globally recognized credential validating foundational and operational cybersecurity proficiency: network architecture security, threat analysis, incident response, cryptographic controls, and risk governance.
August 2024 – March 2026. Specialized research in machine learning paradigms, deep neural architectures, heuristic optimization and automated decision-making models.
Completed January 2026. Distributed-ledger fundamentals, smart-contract engineering, applied cryptography and decentralized application architecture.
2015. Power-system analysis: generation, transmission and distribution, protection schemes, power-flow studies and electrical machines.
January 2008 – December 2012. Circuit analysis, analog and digital signal processing, embedded systems, microcontrollers, control theory and hardware-level computer architecture.
Approximately 7 years. Taught Information Security, Algorithms, Analog and Digital Electronics, Microcontrollers, Electrotechnics and Industrial Automation.
Available for technical dialogues on enterprise defense architecture, AI agent safety research, threat modeling workshops, and community speaking engagements.