Vicky Fernandes
Product Security Engineer at Allstate Northern Ireland
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVicky Fernandes is a Product Security Engineer based in Liverpool with nine years of hands-on experience uncovering and remediating software vulnerabilities across web, mobile, and cloud environments. She moved from external penetration testing and team leadership into an in-house product security role, bringing deep practical knowledge of OWASP Top 10, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and tools like Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nessus and MobSF. At Allstate Northern Ireland she focuses on threat modeling, secure coding guidance, developer training and embedding security into CI/CD pipelines, while her prior roles involved managing a 10-person security team and large-scale vulnerability assessments. Vicky combines technical rigor with an educator’s mindset—building developer training and web-based awareness programs to shift security left. Her academic grounding (MSc in Cyber Security from Cardiff) complements a pragmatic background in API, infrastructure and mobile security testing. Known as an altruist and cybersecurity enthusiast, she blends offensive testing experience with collaborative advisory work to make security practical and scalable.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddHigher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C), Science, Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C), Science at Fatima Junior CollegeSecondary School Certificate (S.S.C), High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, Secondary School Certificate (S.S.C), High School/Secondary Certificate Programs at Fatima High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Don Bosco Institute Of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani
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Github Skills (2)
plagiarism-detection4
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
vickyfernandes/TestCalculator
Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
Calculator app created with Java Swing, It is simple with an easy code to help novices learn how to operate a calculator.
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 2 comments in 3 months
vickyfernandes/helloworldgithub
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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