Experience

Professional Experience

Explore my career journey and the roles I’ve held throughout my professional life.

5+
Years of Experience
7
Professional Roles
4
Major Companies
17+
Technologies Mastered

Global Work Experience

USA (Sword Health)
Portugal (All Companies)
Germany (ISS, Deloitte)
France (Deloitte)
Denmark (ISS)
Poland (ISS)
United Kingdom (ISS)
Spain (ISS)
Switzerland (ISS)

Application Security Engineer

Nov 2025 - Present
Porto, Portugal
Portugal

Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive application security assessments
  • Implement security testing automation in CI/CD pipelines
  • Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for travel platform
  • Collaborate with development teams on secure coding practices
  • Lead security code reviews and vulnerability remediation efforts
  • Develop security guidelines and best practices for travel industry
BurpSuite SAST DAST DevSecOps Python Cloud Security API Security

Application Security Engineer

Sep 2024 - Present
Porto, Portugal
Poland Denmark Germany Portugal United Kingdom Spain Switzerland

Key Responsibilities

  • Launch and develop AppSec Champions Program
  • Conduct security testing and code analysis (SAST & DAST)
  • Implement DevSecOps practices and tooling
  • Perform threat modeling and threat intelligence analysis
  • Lead secure software development lifecycle initiatives
  • Conduct incident response and forensics
BurpSuite SAST DAST DevOps Python Kali Linux Azure

Application Security Engineer

Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Porto, Portugal
USA Portugal

Key Responsibilities

  • Conducted comprehensive application security assessments
  • Implemented security testing automation in CI/CD pipelines
  • Performed threat modeling and risk assessments
  • Collaborated with development teams on secure coding practices
  • Led security code reviews and vulnerability remediation efforts
  • Developed security guidelines and best practices documentation
BurpSuite SAST DAST DevSecOps Python Cloud Security API Security

Cyber Security Consultant

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
Porto, Portugal
Germany Portugal France

Key Responsibilities

  • Performed penetration testing and vulnerability assessments
  • Conducted governance, compliance and risk assessments (ISO 27001:2022)
  • Provided DevSecOps guidance and implementation support
  • Network security analysis and hardening
  • Bug bounty hunting and security research
  • Client consulting on cybersecurity strategy
Pentesting Bug Bounty BurpSuite Kali Network Security Cryptography ISO 27001

Cyber Security Analyst

Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
Porto, Portugal
Germany Portugal France

Key Responsibilities

  • Monitored and analyzed security events and incidents
  • Performed vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
  • Implemented security controls and hardening measures
  • Collaborated with development teams on secure coding practices
  • Conducted security awareness training
  • Managed SailPoint IdentityIQ administration and implementation
SIEM Network Security Pentesting Python Automation SailPoint IdentityIQ

Master's Thesis Research

2021 - 2022
Lisbon, Portugal

Key Responsibilities

  • Focused on Transformers and Retrieval enhanced neural networks
  • Developed and trained deep learning models
  • Published research findings and collaborated with academic teams
  • Applied AI techniques to real-world problems
TensorFlow PyTorch Python Data Science Deep Learning

Software Developer Intern

Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal

Key Responsibilities

  • Hardware integration and software development for nanosatellite (CubeSat)
  • Embedded systems programming and testing
  • Collaborated on space technology projects
  • Participated in multidisciplinary engineering team
  • Contributed to taking a CubeSat from concept to space
Embedded C/C++ Hardware Integration Space Systems Satellite Development
PDLunipessoal, Lda

Software Developer

Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Povoação, São Miguel, Portugal

Key Responsibilities

  • Management of financial software and registry software
  • Conceptual architecture of finance software and information system
  • Developed and maintained business management applications
  • Database design and implementation
Software Development Database Management Financial Systems