Catarina Paralta
Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolCatarina Paralta is an engineering technical leader based in Lisbon with six years of hands-on software engineering experience and an Integrated Master's in Mechanical Engineering. She has progressed through multiple roles at Cisco—ranging from software engineer and scrum master to senior engineer focused on cloud-native security and agentic AI infrastructure, and now leads engineering efforts as a technical leader. Her background blends systems-level work on real-time media microservices with solution architecture experience at Siemens, giving her both deep implementation chops and cross-technology design perspective. Passionate about AI and open source, she drives production-ready integrations for cloud and agentic AI use cases while keeping a practitioner’s focus on reliability and scalability. An early aerodynamics researcher and developer, she brings a methodical, engineering-first approach to complex software problems.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Mechanical Engineering, Erasmus Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers University of TechnologyIntegrated Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Integrated Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes-security10
scanner10
sbom10
kubernetes10
docker10
vulnerabilities10
virtual-machine10
malware10
security10
grype8
k8s4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openclarity/docs.openclarity.io
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
docs.openclarity.io
Contributions:27 reviews, 22 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 2 months
agntcy/dir
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:11 reviews, 26 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 month
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