Pedro Vilaça
Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Vilaça is a pragmatic security engineer and startup CTO with 14 years of experience solving unusual problems across malware analysis, endpoint protection, and high-performance Linux tooling. He built low-overhead Go agents, memory forensics probes, and YubiHSM-driven SSH certificate daemons as a co-founder, and previously co-authored ML-based static analysis engines at Apple and Palo Alto Networks. A longtime C enthusiast who has embraced Go since 2020, he combines deep reverse-engineering skill (public work at reverse.put.as and gdbinit on GitHub) with product-minded engineering. Based in Portugal and accustomed to late hours, he’s not actively seeking roles in cyber but remains open to genuinely novel challenges that make a real impact.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Economics, Undergraduate, Economics at Oporto Faculty of Economics, University of PortoMBA, Business Administration, MBA, Business Administration at Porto Business School
Github Skills (172)
mach10
low-level10
bpf10
security10
pwntools10
arm10
armv710
jtag10
intel10
sqf10
capstone10
lldb10
codegen10
gdb10
keychain10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gdbinit/lldbinit
Jan 2018 - Mar 2025
A gdbinit clone for LLDB
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 7 years 3 months
gdbinitgdblldb
gdbinit/Gdbinit
Aug 2011 - Mar 2014
Gdbinit for OS X, iOS and others - x86, x86_64 and ARM
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
gdbinitarmv8armv7linuxx86
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