I’m Luis E. Pastor, a Senior Security Solutions Architect at AWS with nearly a decade at the company. I spend my days helping organizations navigate the intersection of AI adoption and security — making sure the rush to deploy AI doesn’t leave the front door wide open.
What I Do
My work sits at the crossroads of AI security, cloud security architecture, and compliance frameworks. I lead two AWS Technical Field Communities — Compliance and InfraSec — and I’m focused on the emerging discipline of AI security, particularly prompt injection as an architectural problem (not just another injection vulnerability to filter).
I work closely with technical practitioners and business leaders across the Americas, helping them build security strategies that are practical, fundamentals-focused, and actually work in production.
The Career Arc
Accenture, Protiviti, Deloitte, ScaleSec, then AWS. Each stop sharpened a different edge: consulting taught me to translate security into business language, Big Four taught me scale, and AWS gave me the platform to work on problems that matter at a global level.
Speaking & Teaching
I speak regularly at AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, and international conferences including the UN CEPAL AI Conference where I contributed to Mexico’s AI strategy framework. Speaking is a first-class part of what I do — check the Speaking page for the full list.
Beyond Work
I’m bilingual (English and Spanish), based in Houston, and passionate about making security knowledge accessible — especially for the Latin American market where the conversation around AI security is just getting started.
The content here represents my personal views and does not represent AWS.