Christian David Varela — Cybersecurity Researcher

Remain coherent for the word human to include us all and not exclude anyone.

About

Christian David Varela

Cybersecurity Engineer & AI Safety Researcher

Raised in the rainforests of Costa Rica, I developed an early respect for complex systems, a perspective I now apply to the digital world. As a thinker, doer, and lifelong learner, I connect theoretical AI safety research with practical, frontline cybersecurity offense and defense. My goal is simple: ensure the technologies of tomorrow are safe, trustworthy, and aligned with our values. Fueled by sheer curiosity, I thrive right at the intersection of human nature and machine intelligence.

Ethos

Work

Flagship / AI Security

Psypher AI Threat Assessor

Attacks the model, audits the infrastructure, and maps every finding to MITRE ATLAS. One traceable signal instead of scattered results.

PythonAnthropic APIMITRE ATLAS
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Research / Adversarial ML

YOLO26 Threat Mapping

You don't need a zero-day to blind a production detector, just gradient descent. Nine attacks priced, and a defense that lives outside the model.

PythonPyTorchDiffusion
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Infrastructure / AI Security

Kybernos

Zero-trust gateway for AI agents. Every tool call authenticated, authorized, validated, and audited before it runs.

PythonMCPNIST 800-207
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Threat Intelligence

HunterEngine

Deterministic threat-enrichment engine. Maps phishing and insider lures to MITRE ATT&CK, generates YARA + STIX 2.1.

PythonMITRE ATT&CKYARA
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AI Security / RAG

ragulator

Proof of concept for LLM-mediated document access control: regex pre-filter, threat and intent analysis, clearance and need-to-know gates.

PythonFAISSRAG
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Applied Cryptography

CertForge

Forge mutual-TLS client certificates by recovering RSA CA keys. A CTF and crypto-teaching toolkit.

ShellRSAmTLS
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Digital Forensics

ForensiCLI

A configuration-driven, multi-evidence forensic examination runner. Wraps the standard open-source forensic toolchain behind one interface.

PythonSleuth Kittshark
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Digital Forensics

PST-Forensic-Toolkit

A three-stage pipeline for forensic examination of Microsoft Outlook PST files: extract to CSV, load into SQLite, generate an automated report.

PythonSQLitePST
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Digital Forensics

forensic-system-carver

A command-line pipeline for extracting and correlating artifacts from a disk image. Hashes the evidence, sweeps for target strings, recovers files.

PythonSleuth KitCarving
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→ Everything else is on GitHub: github.com/dreamsudo