I build and break web applications, APIs, and AI systems.
My work focuses on practical application security: building security controls, testing the assumptions behind them, reproducing failures, and turning the results into open-source tools, labs, and research.
Currently building Secure Cloud Academy.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| llm-security-gateway | Security gateway for LLM applications supporting prompt-injection detection, PII scanning/redaction, streaming, and AWS deployment with Terraform. |
| AI-Security-Architecture | Practical AI security architecture covering threat modeling, OWASP LLM risks, jailbreaks, RAG, agents, and security program development. |
| openclaw-deploy-zero-trust | Zero-trust AWS deployment for self-hosted AI agents using Tailscale, private access, managed secrets, and hardened EC2 configuration. |
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| salvo-cli | Go-based offensive web security CLI combining reconnaissance, request replay, and automated fuzzing workflows. |
| webapp-security-portfolio | Application security lab covering AWS WAF, OWASP attack scenarios, logging, analysis, and infrastructure as code. |
| detection-engineering-lab | Detection-as-code lab with Wazuh, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detections, Terraform infrastructure, and CI validation. |
I'm increasingly focused on AI-native application security — especially the places where model behavior, application logic, untrusted context, APIs, and security controls intersect.
Areas I'm exploring include:
- Prompt injection and instruction-boundary failures
- Indirect prompt injection
- LLM security control bypasses
- Agent and tool-use security
- API attack-surface discovery
- Automated security testing for AI applications
The goal is simple:
Build the control. Break the control. Understand why it broke. Make the test repeatable.
Python · Go · Terraform · FastAPI · AWS · GitHub Actions
Cloud infrastructure is the delivery system.
The work is web, API, and AI security.
LinkedIn · Medium · Secure Cloud Academy · rafael@terminalsandcoffee.com





