Santos Merino del Pozo

Santos Merino del Pozo is a Senior Director of Product Engineering and Security at Technology Innovation Institute since July 2023. Previously, Santos held various roles at Qualcomm, including Staff Engineer and Technical Lead for side-channel and threat analysis from April 2022 to July 2023. Prior to that, Santos was with Technology Innovation Institute as a Principal Cryptographer and Lead Cryptography Engineer, leading hardware cryptography and security research teams from June 2019 to March 2022. Santos's earlier experience includes a position as a Senior Security Researcher at DarkMatter LLC, a Security Analyst role at Inside Secure, a Research Assistant at Université catholique de Louvain, a Junior Researcher at Philips Lighting, and an internship focused on Java Virtual Machine development. Santos holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidad de Cantabria, completed in 2013.