MIGUEL CAZARES
Security Engineer (Mobile + AppSec)

Contact
- Email: contact@miguelsecurity.com
- Website: https://miguelsecurity.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cazaresm/
- Phone: (830) 734-3376

Summary
Security Engineer with senior-level mobile roots. I help teams ship mobile and web features that are harder to break, harder to abuse, and easier to operate.

Work Experience

CAZARES SOFTWARE LLC
Founder / Principal Engineer | Sept 2025 - Present
- Built miguelsecurity.com as a fast static portfolio with security-first messaging and clear conversion paths
- Implemented pragmatic secure SDLC guardrails and documentation patterns for solo and small-team projects

SHIPSTATION
Senior Mobile Engineer and Technical/Product Team Lead | Feb 2015 - Aug 2025
- Shipped security checks for 6 production apps while supporting 70k+ MAU and high-volume operations
- Blocked active Auth0 account takeover abuse, preventing $1.5M+ in potential losses
- Led cross-team reliability and incident response improvements with clearer runbooks and ownership
- Re-architected push delivery across backend + mobile with 3 deployments and 0 incidents

REVLEND
Technical Co-Founder | Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
- Co-founded a B2B BNPL product and built the MVP with security and identity controls in scope from day one
- Implemented authentication and access flow controls on GCP/Firebase
- Built a shared front-end across web and mobile using React Native Web

WAYBETTER
Senior Mobile Engineer | Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
- Consolidated duplicated code across 8 apps into one shared React Native codebase
- Improved release consistency with OTA strategy and tighter delivery guardrails

EAGLEEYE NETWORKS
Software Engineer | Feb 2013 - May 2014
- Slashed video start time from 5600ms to 72ms (78x faster)
- Owned iOS video surveillance app architecture through production delivery
- Built camera setup and calibration flows with reliability-focused UX

SPEAKWRITE
Software Engineer | Dec 2011 - Mar 2013
- Drove iOS and Android engineering for a secure audio recording platform
- Delivered Bluetooth and high-quality recording/playback improvements
- Contributed across frontend and backend on a 4-person team

Skills
- AppSec: Secure SDLC, threat modeling, dependency and secrets hygiene
- Mobile security: iOS, Android, OWASP MASVS-informed controls
- Identity and abuse prevention: auth hardening, session and access controls
- Delivery and operations: CI/CD guardrails, incident response, observability

Education
Texas State University - San Marcos
B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics Minor
Summa Cum Laude • GPA 3.87/4.00