Rui Gomes
Software Engineer at Checkmarx
Amares, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Gomes is a software engineer with three years of hands-on experience building secure, production-ready web and security tooling using Go, NodeJS, Python and C#. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Engineering and Management of Information Systems, he contributes to Checkmarx’s KICS open-source project and helps maintain CxSAST by diagnosing complex bugs, delivering hotfixes, and evolving parsers and vulnerability queries. He combines backend expertise with practical devops knowledge—Kubernetes deployments and automation scripts—and a customer-focused approach that translates real-world problems into reliable code. Comfortable across full-stack web development and application security, Rui also has a track record of automating documentation and internal tooling to streamline workflows. Based in Amares, Portugal, he brings a mix of research-driven curiosity and pragmatic troubleshooting that accelerates product delivery.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering and Management of Information Systems, Not Yet Graded, Master's degree, Engineering and Management of Information Systems, Not Yet Graded at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (13)
golang10
infrastructure-as-code10
vulnerabilities10
devsecops10
vulnerability-detection10
vulnerability-scanners10
open-policy-agent10
checkmarx10
security10
cli7
testing5
aws-cdk5
application-security4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cx-rui-araujo/kics
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
Contributions:7 PRs, 22 pushes, 15 issues in 2 months
yanhua1133/kics
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 days
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