Miguel Freitas
Information Security Manager
Greater Braga Area Portugal
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Top SchoolMiguel Freitas is an Information Security Manager at Mercedes-Benz.io with a decade of experience building and operationalizing application, cloud and container security programs. He combines hands-on technical expertise in SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA tooling, IAM, vulnerability and patch management with governance skills around ISO 27001, GDPR and security-by-design. Previously he delivered DevSecOps integrations, professional services and threat modeling for Fortune 500 customers across 10+ countries at Checkmarx, blending solutions architecture with automation and custom integrations. Miguel emphasizes pragmatic automation and clean secure code to accelerate delivery while reducing risk, and he routinely bridges security, engineering and compliance teams. Based in the Greater Braga Area, Portugal, he holds an M.Eng. in Electronics and Computer Engineering and brings a rare mix of consultancy-scale customer-facing delivery and in-house security leadership. An avid integrator, he often turns security toolchains into repeatable, production-ready pipelines rather than one-off assessments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (91)
checkmarx10
security10
attestation10
sca10
sast10
idp10
cycle10
scanning10
golang9
devsecops9
vulnerability-scanners9
chartjs-plugin9
bitrise9
aws-tools9
identity-provider9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
miguelfreitas93/AndroidGoat
Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
Vulnerable Android application for developers and security enthusiasts to learn about Android insecurities
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
vulnerablesecuritysecurity-testingandroidfor-developers
miguelfreitas93/wsdl2postman
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Converter of WSDL format (URLs) to Postman format (.json) v2.1
Contributions:62 commits, 65 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 7 months
urlsconverterjson-formatwsdljson
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