Ulisses Albuquerque
Staff Application Security Engineer
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
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
pdf-reader10
nessus10
cve10
infosec9
vulnerability9
nmap9
devsecops9
vulnerability-management9
penetration-testing9
security9
security-automation9
vulnerability-scanners9
cybersecurity9
reference-implementation9
pentesting9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
urma/acme-banking
Feb 2018 - Apr 2022
ACME Internet Banking App for educational purposes
Contributions:5 reviews, 85 PRs, 143 pushes in 4 years 2 months
securityinternet-bankingbankinginterneteducational-purposes
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
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