Summary
Pedro Gomes is a Senior Application Security Engineer based in the UK with nine years' experience securing fintech and blockchain platforms. He blends hands-on application security—SCA, SAST/DAST, container and secrets management—with incident response, SOC/SIEM design and ISO/SOC2 readiness, recently driving AppSec programs at Copper.co. A distinction graduate (MSc Cyber Security & Pen Testing) and Employee of the Month at Smart Pension, he has moved from SOC analyst work into architecting enterprise security controls and IaC guardrails. He’s comfortable across identity governance, vulnerability management and mobile security, and brings practical dev background from freelance full‑stack work that helps him translate developer needs into secure design. Fast-learning and pragmatic, Pedro is known for combining creative, critical thinking with team leadership to deliver measurable security outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Systems of Business Information, BSc Computing Systems of Business Information at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga
MSc Cyber Security & Penetration Testing, MSc Cyber Security & Penetration Testing at Middlesex University
Portuguese, English, Spanish