Summary
Vasco Sequeira is a network and security engineer and Captain in the Portuguese Army with eight years of hands-on experience designing, configuring and securing mission-critical communications for defense operations. Educated at the Military Academy and Instituto Superior Técnico (Academic Merit Diploma), he brings deep technical expertise in TCP/IP, L2/L3 switching and routing, MPLS, VPNs, multicast, QoS and firewall platforms (Checkpoint, Palo Alto) across Cisco and Nokia environments. He leads the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Networking and SATCOM service, delivering X/Ka-band SATCOM with iDirect modems and serving as CIS point of contact for multiple CWIX cycles and CFBLNet working groups. Notable achievements include a 19/20 master’s thesis on HF communications optimization and operational deployments as a Signals Officer in Afghanistan, reflecting the blend of research-grade analysis and field-proven interoperability. Colleagues know him for translating complex protocol design into resilient, auditable network architectures that meet stringent military security and performance requirements.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineer, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineer at Academia Militar
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineer, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineer at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Spanish, Portuguese