Manuel López Pérez-Tech Lead and AI Engineer
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Experience
Tech Lead and AI Engineer
Bisite
- Architected and built autonomous multi-agent systems for automated incident response (SOAR) using LangChain, moving from experimental prototypes to stable services.
- Standardized the ML lifecycle using MLflow for experiment tracking and model registry, automating deployment pipelines via CI/CD.
- Engineered high-throughput data pipelines using Dagster, Elastic and Apache Kafka to ingest, process, and normalize telemetry data for real-time AI analysis.
- Led the containerization and orchestration of AI microservices using Docker and Kubernetes on cloud.
- Applied "Secure-by-Design" principles to LLM agents, conducting red-teaming against prompt injection and data leakage with Python, LangChain and OpenAI API.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Air Institute
- Worked on cybersecurity and ML in production-grade solutions using PyTorch and scikit-learn.
- Operated cloud-native security platforms on Azure and GCP.
- Implemented DevSecOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments with MLflow.
- Integrated Big Data and streaming components into security architectures using Dagster, Apache Kafka and Elastic.
- Performed vulnerability assessments, pentesting tasks and incident analysis.
- Ensured reliability through automated testing and monitoring.
AI Security Researcher
University of Salamanca
- Conducted applied research in machine learning for cybersecurity using FastAPI, Flask and microservices.
- Designed and evaluated detection models using large-scale security datasets.
- Built research prototypes for security analytics using gRPC, Elastic (ELK) and Kafka.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology and Education.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Research and Development, and Product Development.
Summary
Senior AI Security Engineer and Technical Lead specialized in Agentic AI and LLM-based systems, backed by a strong foundation in cybersecurity.
Architects secure-by-design autonomous solutions using Python, LangChain and PyTorch, applying a security engineering mindset to evaluate robustness, safety and misuse risks prior to deployment.
Engineers high-performance data and inference pipelines, managing the full model lifecycle with Dagster/Airflow, Kafka, Elastic and MLflow.
Delivers scalable, production-grade AI systems on Azure and GCP, using API-driven architectures, DevSecOps workflows, CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and robust testing practices (pytest unit and integration tests) to ensure reliability and maintainability in production.
Skills
Core Expertise
- Agentic Ai
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Llm Engineering
- Rag Pipelines
- Ai Security
- Devsecops
Ai Stack
- Python
- Langchain
- Openai Api
- Pytorch
- Scikit-Learn
- Mlflow
Data & Backend
- Dagster
- Apache Kafka
- Elastic (Elk)
- Fastapi / Flask
- Microservices
- Grpc
Cloud
- Azure Ai Services
- Docker
- Kubernetes (Aks)
- Github Actions
Languages
Education
University of Salamanca
Master in Cybersecurity · Cybersecurity · Salamanca, Spain
University of Salamanca
Bachelor’s in computer engineering · Computer Engineering · Salamanca, Spain
Certifications & licenses
Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
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Manuel is based in Madrid, Spain.
Manuel speaks the following languages: Spanish (Native), English (Advanced).
Manuel has at least 8 years of experience. During this time, Manuel has worked in at least 3 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 7 months. Note that Manuel may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Manuel would be well-suited for roles such as: Tech Lead and AI Engineer, Cybersecurity Engineer, AI Security Researcher.
Manuel's most recent position is Tech Lead and AI Engineer at Bisite.
In recent years, Manuel has worked for Bisite, Air Institute, and University of Salamanca.
Manuel is most experienced in industries like Information Technology and Education.
Manuel is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Research and Development, and Product Development.
Manuel has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Education.
Manuel has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Research and Development, and Product Development.
Manuel holds a Master in Cybersecurity from University of Salamanca and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from University of Salamanca.
Manuel has 2 certificates. These include: Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
The availability of Manuel needs to be confirmed.
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