Nuno Antunes
Software Engineer at Guardsquare
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNuno Antunes is a software engineer with 16 years of experience, currently advancing mobile application security research and tooling at Guardsquare as part of the AppSweep team. He transitioned from a tenured academic career at the University of Coimbra, where he earned a PhD and led work on automated vulnerability detection, benchmarking, and fault-injection techniques that help engineers choose resilient solutions. His expertise spans static analysis, code review, testing, and vulnerability/fault injection applied to web and mobile apps, services, virtualization, IDS, and databases. Based in Munich, he blends rigorous research methodology with product-focused engineering to bring novel analysis techniques into a commercial security scanner. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he evaluates technologies not only for security but for dependability under real attack and fault scenarios, making his contributions especially valuable for business-critical systems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (46)
ios10
static-analysis10
measurements10
network-analysis10
testing10
hacking10
verification10
security10
mobile-application10
security-testing10
owasp10
mobile-security10
android10
dynamic-analysis10
pentesting10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nmsa/wsvd-bench
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
Benchmarking Vulnerability Detection Tools for Web Services
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 8 months
benchmarkingopenvassecurityvulnerability-detectionweb-services
nmsa/bd-demo-api
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Bases de Dados - Trabalho Prático
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
basestrabalhodadosdatabaserest-api
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