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Christian Burgos

Backend engineer at Secuna since 2023. Ten years in PHP/Laravel and MySQL, three of them deep in vulnerability research and application security. Systems-first, patterns second.

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// about

I've spent a decade writing backend code — mostly PHP and Laravel, always with MySQL close by. I think procedurally even after years of OOP: I reach for the system and the solution first, then patterns only if they earn their keep.

I've been at Secuna since March 2023, working on a platform that sits at the seam of the web and security: researchers submitting vulnerabilities, clients reviewing and paying out, infra that has to be trustworthy by default. The same three years have put me on AWS (ap-southeast-1) daily — EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch in production — and watching real attack patterns up close has shaped how I build: application and infrastructure security as first-class concerns, auditability treated as a feature, and MySQL carrying most of the weight.

On the side I'm learning Go — building small CLI tools to internalize goroutines, channels, and idiomatic error handling. I've also touched Next.js, Vue, Docker, and Livewire. Frontend work I can do; backend is where I'm deep.

// stack

Core

  • ·PHP / Laravel
  • ·MySQL
  • ·Redis

Infra

  • ·AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
  • ·Docker
  • ·Linux

Learning

  • ·Go (Gin, GORM)
  • ·Goroutines & channels

Also ship

  • ·React / Next.js
  • ·Vue
  • ·Livewire

// what I do

Production backend at Secuna

Owning Laravel services, MySQL schemas, and AWS infra (ap-southeast-1) for a cybersecurity vulnerability research and reporting platform.

Internal DevOps tooling in Go

CLI tools for the team — learning concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, interfaces) by building things we actually use.

Data modeling & APIs

Ten years of MySQL fluency — schemas, indexes, query plans, migrations. Writing APIs that backend engineers want to consume.

Frontend when the product needs it

React and Next.js to ship features end-to-end. Comfortable in the codebase, but my depth is on the backend.

// projects

Secuna platform

Backend engineer

Laravel + MySQL services powering vulnerability research, researcher payouts, and client reporting. AWS-hosted, MFA-gated, built for auditability.

LaravelMySQLAWS

Internal Go CLIs

Creator

Small Go tools for devops and ops workflows. An excuse to get fluent with goroutines, channels, and idiomatic error handling.

GoCLIConcurrency

// now

$ date

April 2026 — ap-southeast-1

$ status

  • · shipping backend features at Secuna
  • · going deep on Go concurrency (goroutines, channels)
  • · building small DevOps CLIs for the team
  • · keeping MySQL fluent, security tight across app and infra

// contact

Two ways to reach me. Both work; both filter the noise.