David Gouveia
Cloud Security Architect at Cobalt.io
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolDavid Gouveia is a Cloud Security Architect with 12+ years building resilient, secure cloud and Linux-first infrastructures for large organizations, currently shaping AWS security at the European Commission. He blends deep hands-on skills in IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt, CDK), GitOps pipelines, and service observability with practical offensive security experience from leading red teams and pentests. Comfortable across the stack, he engineers automation and tooling (Python/TypeScript) to integrate security orchestration, secrets management (Vault), service mesh, and continuous security testing into modern CI/CD workflows. His background spans SRE, DevSecOps and embedded systems, and he has a track record of introducing pragmatic controls like Falco, Cloud Custodian and Atomic Red Team exercises to harden production environments. Based in Porto, Portugal, he prefers fully remote roles and is unusually focused on upfront transparency in hiring—expect clear job descriptions and salary ranges before a call.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Networks and Distributed Systems, Master's Degree Networks and Distributed Systems at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do PortoBachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering at ISPGaya
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (95)
cortex10
on-the-fly9
devsecops9
security9
orchestrate9
content-repository9
orchestration8
imgix8
popcorn8
watchdog8
simulate7
simulations7
yubico7
nwjs7
usb7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zatarra/usb-watchdog
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Python script to allow you to control a usb watchdog
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 8 months
pythonusbpython-scriptwatchdog
zatarra/xsoar-content
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Contributions:7 pushes in 6 months
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