Felipe Daragon
Chief Visionary Officer - Founder at Syhunt
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Daragon is a seasoned software leader and founder with over 12 years of experience in full-stack development and application security, currently shaping product and technology strategy as Chief Visionary Officer at Syhunt and founder of AI startup DaragonTech. He built Syhunt’s Hybrid scanner as a full‑stack architect, integrating Lua-powered engines, CEF-based UIs, and both SAST and DAST technologies to deliver enterprise-grade security tooling. A lifelong coder and Lua enthusiast, Felipe contributes to open-source projects such as the Sailor Lua MVC framework, improving compatibility and server-side behavior. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic alliance building, maintaining cross-company collaboration between Syhunt and DaragonTech to accelerate AI and cybersecurity innovation. Known for pragmatic prototyping, Felipe pairs deep technical craft—malware research to web app security—with a product-minded approach to shipping measurable security outcomes. Based in Lisbon, he brings a rare mix of low-level technical depth and long-term visionary leadership to security and AI product development.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English Computer science, English Computer science at Self-taught
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
lua10
web-framework10
back-end-development10
nginx8
lighttpd7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sailorproject/sailor
Feb 2014 - Oct 2016
A Lua MVC Web Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 29 pushes, 59 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on enhancing the Sailor Lua MVC web framework. Their commits include adding checks for the `parsebody` function to ensure compatibility with different Apache mod_lua versions, implementing route parameter configuration options, and adding support for client-side Lua execution. Additionally, the user modified the framework to be compatible with various web server environments and fixed a bug related to redirect functionality.
luaphpframeworkweb-mvcmvc
exlunaproject/lua_at_client
Mar 2014 - Oct 2018
Lua@Client is an extension of Lua Pages to enable Lua scripts in the browser. It also facilitates running Lua scripts from static HTML pages
Contributions:2 releases, 74 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 7 months
luabrowserstatic-htmlfacilitateslua-scripts
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