Lino Santos
Head at National Cybersecurity Centre
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLino Santos is a cybersecurity and technology leader with 11+ years of senior experience, currently serving as Head of Portugal’s National Cybersecurity Centre in Lisbon. He blends deep operational expertise—having led CERT.PT and national security operations—with hands-on engineering work, including back-end contributions to the well-regarded IntelMQ threat-intel project where he developed and hardened multiple feed parsers. His background spans network engineering, incident response, and strategic program management across public and research institutions, informed by graduate training in networking and a master's in Law and Security. Known for bridging technical detail and policy, he has steered national initiatives while still contributing code and security-focused tooling. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex threat data into operational capabilities and pragmatic governance. He brings a rare mix of institutional leadership, technical craftsmanship, and legal-security perspective to national-scale cyber resilience.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Law and Security, Master's degree Law and Security at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de LisboaPost-graduate Advanced Studies on Law and Security, Post-graduate Advanced Studies on Law and Security at Universidade Nova de LisboaGraduate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Graduate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Universidade do Minho
Github Skills (18)
parser10
python10
cybersecurity10
it-security10
feed10
mq10
data-parsing10
security10
threat-intelligence10
parsing10
parse10
incident-response10
malware9
regular-expression8
automation7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
certtools/intelmq
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
IntelMQ is a solution for IT security teams for collecting and processing security feeds using a message queuing protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 45 pushes in 14 days
Contributions summary:Lino primarily focused on implementing and improving parsers for various threat intelligence feeds within the IntelMQ framework. Their contributions involved creating new parsers for feeds such as Autoshun, Blocklist.de, and CleanMX, as well as updating existing ones. They also demonstrated security engineering skills by incorporating new features related to threat intelligence and data analysis through the parsing and processing of security data.
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