Summary
João Soares is a Lead IT Security Consultant with 11 years’ experience designing and automating resilient network and infrastructure solutions for large-scale enterprises, currently driving infrastructure-as-code and network automation at Ørsted. He blends deep hands-on expertise with Cisco ACI, Palo Alto, F5, Ansible, Terraform and Python to modernize firewall rule management, logging, monitoring and sources-of-truth across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Previously he led high-availability, low-latency network operations at Verisure, building complex routing, VPN and load-balancing fabrics across many countries. A mentor and coach, he helps shift operations teams toward DevOps practices while prioritizing reduction of complexity and technical debt. Academically grounded with a Master’s from Universidade de Coimbra, he also teaches and open-sources tooling in Dart/Flutter and Ruby—bringing both practical security offense/defense experience and developer-friendly automation to infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Programming, Design and Multimedia, DPM, Programming, Design and Multimedia, DPM at ETIC
English, Portuguese, Spanish