Ricardo Ferreira
Chair Of CyberSecurity Subcommittee European Policy Group at Aphinia
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRicardo Ferreira is a seasoned technology and security leader with over 20 years’ experience specializing in cloud security, automation, and risk management across EMEA. Currently Field Chief Security Information Officer at Fortinet, he has driven cloud adoption and compliance programs at major firms including EY, Rackspace, and HSBC, and led initiatives that won Rackspace recognition as Google Migrations Partner of the Year. A pragmatic strategist and early adopter of AI, he co-authored Cloud Security Alliance whitepapers, published on policy design in digital adoption, and developed an AI-powered cloud compliance accelerator. Ricardo combines hands-on technical depth—supported by coursework from Oxford and Stanford and an MSc in Information Systems—with board-level advisory experience guiding CXO stakeholders through technology selection and distributed team leadership. He is active in industry working groups (Cloud Security Alliance, CNCF, ACM), where his work on DORA/CCM mapping and GenAI threat taxonomies informs practical security frameworks used by enterprises.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at Stanford UniversityOxford Artificial Intelligence Programme Artificial Intelligence, Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme Artificial Intelligence at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordScalable Machine Learning, Scalable Machine Learning at edXMaster of Science (MSc) Information Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Information Systems at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Github Skills (60)
mysql9
elasticsearch9
log-viewer9
dashboard9
monitoring9
grafana9
graylog9
syslog9
gelf9
prometheus9
data-visualization9
webextension9
logging8
influxdb8
go8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ricard0ff/stuffy
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
algos
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
javascriptalgos
ricard0ff/sapo_lolwut
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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