Summary
Manuel Tovar is a Senior Associate IS Engineer based in Portugal with seven years of hands-on experience bridging software development, DevOps and cybersecurity across finance, industrial and healthcare sectors. He has led SOC teams and 24/7 operations, implemented and tuned SIEM/EDR stacks (Azure Sentinel, Splunk, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender) and integrated complex systems including CyberArk, ServiceNow and various APIs. Equally comfortable writing automation scripts and building web applications, he runs an IT consulting practice serving SMEs while taking on full-time roles, which gives him a pragmatic, client-focused perspective. He has taught and mentored students in digital forensics and vulnerability management, and brings a mix of operational rigor and developer mindset to incident response and integration projects. A former Java and integrations engineer, Manuel combines broad cross-stack fluency with a knack for scripting and automation that reduces operational burden.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, IT Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, IT Computer Engineering at University of Lisbon
Bachelor's degree, IT Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, IT Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Colégio Nossa Senhora da Assunção
Escola Secundária de Marco de Canaveses
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French