Santiago is an Assistant Professor at Purdue's Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department. His interests include binary
analysis, cryptography, distributed systems, and
security-oriented software engineering. His current research
focuses on securing the software development lifecycle, cloud
security, and update systems. Santiago is a member of the Arch
Linux security team and has contributed patches to F/OSS
projects on various degrees of scale, including Git, the Linux
Kernel, Reproducible Builds, NeoMutt, and the Briar project.
Santiago is also a maintainer for Cloud Native Computing
Foundation's project The Update Framework (TUF) as well as
lead the in-toto and Sigstore projects.