Maria Lopez
Chief Technology Officer
Owns the technical platform — the cyber range, lab automation and the research computing stack that the publication track runs on.
Background
Maria designs and maintains the infrastructure everything else depends on: the live cyber range used in every offline bootcamp, the containerised lab environment for online cohorts, and the GPU cluster the research division trains models on. Before joining she spent fourteen years as a systems architect across two cloud providers and one national telecom operator.
Selected highlights
- Designed the 120-node cyber range used across all offline courses
- Cut lab provisioning time from 3 days to 11 minutes
- Co-author on 6 systems-security papers
Areas of expertise
At a glance
- Role
- Chief Technology Officer
- Experience
- 20 years
- Education
- PhD Computer Science, distributed systems
- Certifications
- CKS, AWS Solutions Architect Professional
- Divisions
- Leadership, AI Research