Tiago Mendo
Director Of Product Strategy
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolTiago Mendo is a product and security leader who currently directs product strategy and engineering for Snyk's DAST/API & Web capabilities, drawing on over two decades of hands-on experience in application security. A former CTO and co-founder of Probely (acquired by Snyk), he pairs deep pentesting and tooling expertise with startup product instincts to scale security scanning in CI/CD and developer workflows. His career began building honeypot networks and reverse-engineering proprietary traffic, later co-founding SAPO’s web security team at Portugal Telecom and developing automated scanners used in production. Tiago is CISSP-certified, holds an Information Security master’s from Carnegie Mellon, co-leads the OWASP Lisboa chapter, and teaches cybersecurity—bringing both community leadership and academic rigor to product decisions. Known for speaking internationally on scanning at scale and AppSec automation, he blends practical red-team skills with a product-first approach to make security accessible to developers.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of LisbonMaster's degree Segurança Informática (Information Security), Master's degree Segurança Informática (Information Security) at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaNova School of Business and EconomicsMaster's degree Information Technology & Information Security @INI, Master's degree Information Technology & Information Security @INI at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (89)
python10
security10
scanner10
wordpress10
pentest10
database10
security-scanner10
zap10
pentesting10
api-security10
sql-injection10
injection10
sqlmap10
infosec9
async9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tmendo/burp-retire-js
Jul 2018 - May 2023
Burp/ZAP/Maven extension that integrate Retire.js repository to find vulnerable Javascript libraries.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
vulnerablemavensecurityjavascriptburp
Probely/CTF-Game
Oct 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 5 months
capture-the-flagflag-game
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