Rafael Roque
Research Assistant In Cybersecurity at CESAR
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Roque is a seasoned software engineer and cybersecurity researcher based in Pernambuco, Brazil, with over 12 years of experience spanning academia and industry. He currently serves as Research Assistant in Cybersecurity at CESAR, where he develops intelligent, LLM-driven agents for ransomware detection, alert prioritization, and AI-enabled integration with SIEM and SOAR to reduce analyst workload and response times. He is a Professor of Software Engineering and AI at Universidade Católica de Pernambuco and holds postdoctoral research credentials in AI (Unicamp) and cybersecurity (UFPE), reflecting a rare blend of theory and hands-on practice. As a member of the board of directors at Aicury, he combines strategic leadership with deep product and software engineering expertise across development, architecture, QA, and operations. His tech arsenal spans Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Java, ML/DL/NLP, chatbot frameworks, REST, Kafka and RabbitMQ, and multiple databases, enabling end-to-end, secure, scalable systems with a strong emphasis on explainability in AI-driven security.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Network Computer and Distributed System, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Network Computer and Distributed System at Centro de Informática UFPEPostdoctoral Researcher, Cybersecurity, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cybersecurity at Universidade Federal de PernambucoPostdoctoral Researcher, Artificial Intelligence, Postdoctoral Researcher, Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Estadual de CampinasBacharel em Sistema de Informação, Bacharel em Sistema de Informação at Faculdade Integrada de Patos
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (15)
shadow9
autocomplete8
typeahead7
applet6
jasper-reports6
barcode4j6
hibernate6
hibernate-criteria6
ireport6
database6
encoding6
java6
javascript5
typescript4
erp2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelroque/tasks-backend
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Aplicação em SpringBoot para backend do projeto Tasks
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
spring-bootprojetospringbootspringbackend
rafaelroque/cursospring
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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