Symbol Security
Co-Founder & CTO
Behavioral cybersecurity platform that transforms employees from security risks into security assets.
Protecting 50,000+ employees across 100+ organizations.
symbolsecurity.comAntonio Pagano
Pragmatic systems for a complex world. Building scalable teams and infrastructure.
- Co-Founder & CTO, Symbol Security
- Founder & CEO, Wawandco
- Barranquilla, Colombia
Recent writing
43 essays since 2015 on engineering leadership, AI-assisted development, Go and security.
An unpopular opinion
In an industry obsessed with the next shiny framework, I bet on stability. I believe in code that is boring to read but exciting to run.
I build systems that survive hype cycles. Whether it's crafting security infrastructure at Symbol or training the next generation of engineers at Wawandco, my focus is the same: radical honesty, technical depth, and zero fluff.
Work
The two companies I run.
Wawandco
Founder & CEO
Software consultancy that builds engineering teams from Colombia for companies in the US.
More than 200 engineers trained and 50+ production apps shipped.
wawand.coOpen source
Tools built and battle-tested by teams at Wawandco.
- Buffalo Framework Rapid web development framework bringing Rails-like productivity to Go.
- Tailo Pure Go solution for Tailwind CSS integration without Node.js dependencies.
- Doco Doco is a documentation generator that transforms Markdown files and folders into beautiful websites.
- Leapkit Leapkit is a Go framework designed to accelerate development workflows, especially for small teams.
- Markito Markito is a Markdown-to-HTML editor built with Go, SQLite, and HTMX.
- Qatto Qatto is an API designed to actively monitor typosquatting domains.
- Qero Qero is a QR code generation service built with Go and HTMX.
- Releaso Releaso accelerates product communications using AI-powered software tools to generate release notes.