Rui Gomes
Software Team Leader at Checkmarx
Porto Metropolitan Area Portugal
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Top SchoolRui Gomes is a software team leader based in Porto with over five years of professional experience building and leading engineering teams at Checkmarx. He combines hands-on full-stack development and security engineering—contributing to the well-known open-source KICS project where he improved test coverage, fixed parsing bugs, and supported release work to strengthen IaC vulnerability detection. Rui progressed from software engineer to team lead at Checkmarx after earlier engineering roles at Primavera and research-focused work on mobile spatio-temporal oceanographic visualization during his master's. He brings a pragmatic blend of product-focused delivery, code quality advocacy, and security-centered thinking to his teams. Colleagues benefit from his background in both applied research and commercial software, which helps him bridge complex technical problems with practical, auditable solutions.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (10)
testing10
infrastructure-as-code10
go10
vulnerability-detection10
security10
cloud-native9
devsecops9
docker8
yaml8
dockers8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
Checkmarx/kics
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
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:
Full-stack Developer & Security Engineer
Full-stack Developer & Security EngineerContributions:882 reviews, 46 commits, 651 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rui contributed to the KICS project by implementing unit tests for missing queries checks, which improved the code quality and test coverage. They also addressed a bug related to incorrect values displayed on the console and fixed issues with JSON parsing in the KICS service. Furthermore, the user merged branches and updated the version, indicating involvement in both feature development and release management. Their work touched upon vulnerability detection and security-related topics, aligning with the project's focus.
kicscyclecompliancevulnerability-scannersiac
Checkmarx/2ms
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Too many secrets (2MS) helps people protect their secrets on any file or on systems like CMS, chats and git
Contributions:16 reviews, 13 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
api-keysappsecsecret-keyssecret-managementsecrets
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