Miguel Borges
Information Technology Manager - IT Manager
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolMiguel Borges is an IT manager with eight years of focused leadership in national and multinational companies across travel, hospitality, construction, pharmaceuticals and industry, combining hands-on systems administration with strategic digital transformation. He has led large cross-functional migrations and validations—ERP migrations, GMP-compliant ERP validation, PBX to IP, and infrastructure moves affecting hundreds of users and dozens of servers—consistently driving cost reduction and operational resilience. Comfortable both managing teams (helpdesk/development) and steering vendor, budget and procurement processes, he operates across virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware), Microsoft ecosystems, networking and security platforms. Miguel also contributes to open-source security tooling efforts, working on backend and DevOps improvements for the well-known oauth2-proxy project, showing a practical interest in authentication and dependency hardening. Based in Lisbon, he pairs a pragmatic, audit-ready approach from pharma projects with a knack for turning complex migrations into repeatable, measurable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Eng., Engenharia Informática, Eng., Engenharia Informática at Instituto Politécnico da GuardaProfessional technical course, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, 12 º Ano - Nivel IV UE, Professional technical course, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, 12 º Ano - Nivel IV UE at EPTOLIVA - Escola Profissional de Oliveira do Hospital, Tábua e Arganil
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
cookie10
api-design9
security9
docker8
dockers8
sso-authentication7
cicd7
ssl7
cloud-infrastructure7
java6
completablefuture6
junit6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 1 commit, 9 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the oauth2-proxy project. Their work involved implementing features related to CSRF cookie management, including allowing CSRF cookies per request and defining expiration times. Additionally, they addressed issues with URL validation and token handling, which demonstrates involvement in API and authentication aspects. The user also updated dependencies and addressed vulnerabilities in the project's go.mod file, indicating a DevOps responsibility for maintaining the project's security and dependencies.
proxyreverse-proxyidentityazureoauth2
miguelborges99/oauth2-proxy
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Contributions:1 PR, 120 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 5 months
openidoidcauthorizationidentity-providersproxy
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