Filipe Pina is an Application Security Engineer based in Porto with 12 years of experience blending secure software practices, DevOps, and backend engineering. He transitioned from hands-on development roles into application security at NetSuite after five years as an analyst at Blip.pt, bringing practical knowledge of iOS development and network security to threat modeling and remediation. Filipe contributes to open-source infrastructure—most notably adding authentication, TLS support, and UI improvements to the distributed scheduler Dkron—demonstrating expertise in securing distributed systems and recovery workflows. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs academic grounding from Universidade do Minho with a pragmatic focus on making systems both resilient and auditable. An engineer who moves between code, infrastructure, and security, he often surfaces subtle reliability issues before they become incidents.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Universidade do Minho
Dkron - Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system https://dkron.io
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:21 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and infrastructure of the dkron system. Their work included implementing authentication features with etcd, adding TLS support for etcd and Consul backends, and fixing issues related to cluster recovery. They also made adjustments to the API for execution output truncation and handled plugin discovery within the dkron config. The user also worked on the UI adding some features like toggling and running jobs on the dashboard.
Contributions:10 releases, 35 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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