Miguel Silva
Engenheiro De Software Sênior at Checkmarx
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Silva is a software engineer based in Braga, Portugal with four years of hands-on experience across backend, frontend and security-focused roles. Currently at Checkmarx, he contributes to infrastructure-as-code security tooling (notably improvements to the popular open-source KICS project), fixing vulnerabilities and refining analysis logic. He began in web and API development with Angular and Laravel, then shifted toward security policy engineering and backend systems. A self-taught learner now pursuing advanced studies in software engineering, he blends practical coding skills with a strong interest in secure-by-design practices. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented—he’s known for catching subtle issues like missing certificate checks and brittle regexes that other reviews can miss.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Informática, Master of Engineering - MEng Informática at Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do AveProgramação de Computadores - Geral, Programação de Computadores - Geral at Escola Secundaria Alcaides de Faria
Github Skills (7)
regular-expression10
terraformer10
terraform10
vulnerability-detection9
security-hardening9
devsecops8
openapi3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Checkmarx/kics
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:7 releases, 578 reviews, 398 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Miguel's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the security and functionality of the KICS tool. They've focused on refining and fixing regular expressions for improved Dockerfile analysis. Additionally, they've worked on addressing a vulnerability by adding a missing check to ensure the correct handling of certificate bodies within tfvars. The user has also contributed to the project's documentation.
checkmarxinfrastructure-as-codesecurityvulnerabilitiesiac
Checkmarx/kics-cdk-validator-plugin
Feb 2024 - Dec 2025
A KICS plugin for AWS CDK
Contributions:2 reviews, 27 PRs, 228 pushes in 1 year 10 months
aws-cdk
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