Hi, I'm Hugo Valters
building secure infrastructure.
DevSecOps & CyberSecurity engineer with 19+ years running Linux/Windows infrastructure, hardening production systems and automating the boring parts — from central banking platforms to homelab-scale Kubernetes.
What I work with
Most recently a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Emergn. Along the way I've maintained core banking systems under strict financial regulation, hardened Linux servers against real-world attacks, and built the CI/CD pipelines that ship this very site. I write about most of it on LinkedIn.
Recent experience
Remote infrastructure engineering for a government SAP instance — Jenkins pipelines, Zabbix monitoring, Bash/PowerShell automation.
Maintained central banking systems (STIBOR, Tora, Fiona) under SFTR / MiFID II / Derivatives regulation, on-call 24/7, disaster recovery testing.
Docker/Kubernetes/Swarm clusters, Akamai Cloud Security certified, hardened Linux security with Iptables & Fail2ban.
+ 10 more roles across government, postal & enterprise IT since 2007 → full history on LinkedIn
Things I run outside the day job
A live threat-intel platform I designed, built, and run solo — real-time CVE tracking with CVSS/EPSS scoring, vendor trust ratings across the software supply chain, and infrastructure how-to guides. Currently expanding with a public API, OSINT tooling, and deeper vendor intelligence.
Visit valtersit.com → Live 0daybeats.com Original MusicI love music, so instead of just listening I make my own — cyberpunk-tinted production that fuels the long infrastructure nights and keeps the focus sharp.
Visit 0daybeats.com →Also open to jumping into other people's projects if the idea's good → get in touch.
Verifiable track record
Returned cloudflare.lv to Cloudflare, free of charge.
Held the domain for several years to keep it out of phishers' hands, then offered it publicly. Cloudflare's CEO responded within six minutes, and the holder change through NIC.lv was done in two days.
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