Ulisses Albuquerque
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolUlisses Albuquerque is a Staff Application Security Engineer based in Melbourne with over 15 years of hands-on security and development experience and a 20+ year development background. He blends offensive and defensive tooling experience—having contributed to open source security projects including the original JSON body parser for Apache mod_security—with practical program-building for secure, high-velocity teams. A longtime advocate for embedding security throughout the SDLC, he designs policies, automation, and developer-friendly controls that reduce risk without slowing delivery. His background ranges from building vulnerability scanners and pen-test tooling to leading security teams and shaping security product roadmaps at enterprises and fintechs. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic collaborator who treats security as a shared engineering responsibility rather than a late-stage gate. He also brings a systems-first mindset from early roles in systems and embedded engineering, which informs his tooling and threat-modeling work.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (57)
reader10
pdf-reader10
pdf10
pdf-generation10
nmap9
javascript9
penetration-testing9
reference-implementation9
cve9
nessus9
pentesting8
banking8
vulnerability-scanners8
openvas8
cybersecurity8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
urma/hawkeye-reporter
Aug 2019 - Jun 2024
Web UI for visualisation of Hawkeye Scanner reports (built with Gatsby)
Contributions:14 reviews, 13 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 10 months
urma/microphisher
Jul 2013 - Feb 2021
µphisher reference implementation
Contributions:23 commits, 14 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 years 8 months
phisherreference-implementation
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