Tiago Cardoso is a security architect and instructor from Vila do Conde, Portugal with eight years of hands-on experience across penetration testing, network engineering and security consulting. He combines industry certifications (OSCP, CEH, CCNA/CCNP) with practical roles at Cisco and Tridonic, and teaches Cisco CyberOps, CEH and CHFI courses at ISEP Academy. Tiago blends offensive security skills with backend and database engineering—having contributed MySQL-backed crawling and storage features to a dark-web OSINT tool (TorBot). He’s actively expanding into web and cloud security (OSWE and C|SE in progress), bringing a pragmatic, tool-focused approach to architecting secure systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Network Professional System Networking and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, Network Professional System Networking and LAN/WAN Management/Manager at Cisco Academy
IT Engineer Computer Engineering, IT Engineer Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the "torbot" project, a dark web OSINT tool. Their work focused on integrating database features, specifically using MySQL to store crawled URLs. This included writing code to connect to the database, create tables, and insert data, as well as refactoring the database connection and data saving process. They also modified the main application file to interact with the database.
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