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Carlos' professional career has been entirely focused on the web, starting in 1994 with Argonne National Laboratory and discovering NCSA Mosaic, and connecting things to the internet such as their Advanced Photon Source electron accelerator before it was even possible to center text on a page. Other notable employers have been Chicago Tribune, PacifiCare Health Systems, Barbeques Galore, Cars.com, and Rand McNally, addressing the nascent topics of web development, content management, online marketing, and e-commerce.
After 20 years, Carlos joined Zurich Insurance and pivoted into cybersecurity to protect websites instead of developing them, because ports 80 and 443 are the biggest vulnerabilities ever. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from Concordia University. After having co-located his own email, web, and database servers for many years, Carlos still enjoys crafting code in Python and Google App Engine in his spare time.
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