Summary
Pedro Galvão is a Principal Security Consultant with 11+ years of focused experience building and operating security for Internet-scale systems, currently leading security consulting at AWS from London. He blends control-systems engineering principles with continuous compliance practices to turn security from a checklist into an operational discipline, and is recognized internally as an Amazon bar raiser. His background includes senior security and leadership roles across IBM and ISS, where he led regional security services, P&L responsibilities, and cloud security architecture for complex, multinational environments. Pedro is passionate about increasing talent density—mentoring teams and shaping capability development alongside delivering technical solutions. With a foundation in software engineering and a postgraduate business qualification, he uniquely combines technical depth, operational rigour, and commercial leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software Engineering, BSc Software Engineering at University of Macau
PG Business Administration and Management General, PG Business Administration and Management General at University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Chinese