Rafaela Soares
Software Engineer at Checkmarx
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarRafaela Soares is a software engineer based in Braga, Portugal with five years of experience focused on backend development and security. She contributes to prominent open-source security tooling—most notably adding and refining Dockerfile security queries for Checkmarx's KICS—demonstrating practical expertise in infrastructure-as-code scanning and vulnerability detection. Comfortable working across codebases to improve coverage and accuracy, she brings a detail-oriented approach to reducing misconfigurations and image-related risks. Her GitHub presence reflects a hands-on commitment to open-source security, blending engineering rigor with pragmatic improvements that directly strengthen developer workflows.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
infrastructure-as-code10
vulnerability-detection10
security-scan10
aac10
security-txt10
security10
dockers9
docker9
go7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Checkmarx/kics
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
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:5 releases, 1385 reviews, 708 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Rafaela's commits primarily involve adding and modifying queries for the KICS (Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure) project. They contributed to the security analysis capabilities of the tool by implementing new queries to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations within Dockerfiles. The contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the tool's ability to identify security risks, specifically related to image security and best practices. The user also updated existing queries to provide better coverage and improved the overall security scanning process of the project.
kicscyclecompliancevulnerability-scannersiac
rafaela-soares/query_with_cis
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 242 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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