Pedro Portilha

About Pedro Portilha

A born challenger of the status quo, outspoken, team player, I naturally rise on the hierarchy to be a decision maker, I take responsibility & ownership of changing the things I believe can and should be improved, I love to design, develop, and improve solutions that address people challenges, watch people use them makes my day and inspire me to grow every day,I have designed and develop critical solutions that help electrify and protect entire countries and bring light to thousands of houses, medical facilities, transport among other infrastructures. Lead the implementation and maintenance of the team software development lifecycle (SDLC) since code to deployment. Design the architecture of new critical products with high availability and managed software security initiatives to implement standards in the energy automation division,Being a people person, I decide to take the challenge of joining a young startup with a fast-growing pace on the cybersecurity space, that allowed me to change from being a backend software lead architect to be more client facing, application security architect and project manager of a wallet of worldwide clients, team leader of a group of very talented application security engineers, responsible for the creation of procedures and material (threat model, trainings, new communication methodologies) that I used and deploy in many countries around the world with success and are used today by my peers and team as a standard. As a manager, I personally take responsibility for the quality of service that my team delivers to more than 70 customers worldwide, some of them part of the rank Fortune 500, while maintaining a high standard in partner with them to create or mature their secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) and prevent thousands of cyber security attacks,I dread repetitive tasks, so I make sure to invest time on the creation of documentation, automation of processes and learning new skills, When I\'m not deploying solutions, I will certainly be travelling, climbing a higher mountain, running a marathon, doing snowboard in the Pyrenees or scuba diving on the Azores, I\'m an enthusiastic of exploring new places and meeting new people, Feel free to reach out if you ever need someone that delivers on his word and gets the job done.

Experience

1. Head of Application Security Delivery

   Checkmarx

   Dec 2022 — Present · Las Vegas, NV, US

   Supported dozens of clients with tailored solutions to meet their unique security and productivity needs,• Delivered thousands of optimizations, driving measurable improvements in client operations,• Managed the delivery of services across dozens of thousands of optimization requests, including Application Security Accelerator (ASA) & Optimizers and Enterprise Developer Productivity (EDP) contracts,• Facilitated hundreds of TM/Project Discovery client sessions with an impressive average Client Satisfaction (CSAT) score above satisfied.• Conducted hundreds of Result Review client sessions achieving an outstanding very satisfied CSAT score,• Enterprise Developer Productivity Package Deployment,• Played a key role in acquiring and setting up the Enterprise Developer Productivity Package, enabling streamlined processes and enhanced developer efficiency across various organizations.• Successfully secured and onboarded key strategic clients, delivering tailored solutions that enhanced operational capacity, optimized account performance, and drove significant productivity gains, ultimately ensuring long-term client satisfaction and strengthening key partnerships.

Education

• Universidade do Minho

  Master, Computer Science

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Regular Expressions
• Programming
• Winforms
• Friendly Personality
• Automated Software Testing
• Vmware Infrastructure
• C#
• Tfs
• Xml
• Bash
• Visual Studio
• Software Development
• Alm
• Software Engineering
• Linux
• Wpf
• Jenkins
• Operating Systems