Nuno Loureiro

Current

• Head of Email Engineering at Portugal Telecom

Past

• Teacher at PHP Summer School at Caixa Mágica / DRI
• Senior Software Developer at Portugal Telecom
• Owner, Director at Ethernet, lda

• Network and System Administrator at Academic Association of the University of Algarve
• Network and System Administrator at Casa da Cultura de Loule
• IRC Administrator at University of Algarve
• Teacher at High School of Pinheiro e Rosa

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Erlang Training
• Ruby on Rails Training

• FCCN - CERT.PT
• Zend/PHP
• Universidade do Algarve
• ICP (Portuguese Communications Institute)
• Externato Nossa Sra. do Perpetuo Socorro

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Recommended

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Connections

108 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• SAPO Mail
• My Company
• My Website

Nuno Loureiro’s Summary

An experienced software engineer with over 10 years of industry experience. Possesses developed skills, which have been gained through establishing and developing full IT projects, networks, and infrastructures from initial conception to completion. Acquired vast knowledge throughout the career in Unix systems and network administration, systems integration, architecture and development of large-scale web applications, and cultivated leadership skills. Thrives on working on ambitious projects such as complex web applications or complex architectures. Has a BSc (5-year) in Computer and Systems Engineering. Started an IT solutions company while working on earning a bachelor’s degree.

Nuno Loureiro’s Specialties:

- PHP, XML, (X)HTML, SOAP, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, FTP, SSH, SMTP, POP, IMAP, SAMBA, Apache, Lighttpd, Memcache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, MacOSX, MS-Windows, LaTeX, DocBook, JavaScript, CSS

- Web Developer and Architect, Email Architect, Networking, Operating Systems, Security

Nuno Loureiro’s Experience

• Head of Email Engineering

  Portugal Telecom

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  - Leading the email technical team.
  - Email Architect
  - Anti-Spam Architect
  - Webmail Platform Architect
  - Webmail Project Manager (http://www.horde.org/dimp)
  - Coordination of the Webmail development with the Horde Core team (Open Source project)
  - Coordination of some Dovecot IMAP developments with its author (Open Source project)
  
  Keywords: email, webmail, php, anti-spam, anti-abuse, platform architecture, web services, open source, imap, pop, smtp, ldap, mysql, linux, lighttpd, memcache, Dovecot IMAP, horde, DIMP, qmail

• Teacher at PHP Summer School

  Caixa Mágica / DRI

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — July 2008 (1 month)

  (Yearly course. Also gave the same two lectors in 2007)
  
  - Gave two lectures at PHP Summer School. One entitled “PHP & Performance”, the other one “PHP & Security”.

• Senior Software Developer

  Portugal Telecom

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PTC.IN; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2002 — June 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  - Web Development (mostly PHP).
  - Webmail developer
  
  Keywords: webmail, php, web services, javascript, sql, linux

• Owner, Director

  Ethernet, lda

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 8 months)

  - Owner, director, co-founder
  - Product Developer (Web Applications in PHP: Auctions Service, Email Marketing tool, Real Estate)
  - Project Manager
  - System Administrator (Linux, MS-Windows)
  
  Keywords: Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, DNS, qmail, firewall

• Network and System Administrator

  Academic Association of the University of Algarve

  (Education Management industry)

  February 1994 — July 2002 (8 years 6 months)

  - Network Architect (Wireless Network to link 4 buildings, Linux Routers)
  - System Administrator (Linux servers, MS-Windows workstations)
  - Organizer of the first Linux Symposium in Portugal – SIMPLINUX 99. Key speakers: Alan Cox (Kernel hacker) and Richard Moore (KDE developer).
  
  Keywords: Linux, Firewall, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Squid, SAMBA, Courier IMAP, Horde, IMP, Sendmail, DNS, Windows NT, Linux Router Project

• Network and System Administrator

  Casa da Cultura de Loule

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  July 1997 — January 2002 (4 years 7 months)

  - Network and System Administrator (part-time).
  
  Keywords: linux, samba, ftp, dns, email, http, proxy, open source

• IRC Administrator

  University of Algarve

  (Higher Education industry)

  February 1996 — February 2000 (4 years 1 month)

  - Founder and IRC Administrator of the Portuguese IRC Network (PTNet).

• Teacher

  High School of Pinheiro e Rosa

  (Higher Education industry)

  March 1999 — April 1999 (2 months)

  - Taught an extra-curricular course: "Internet Services and Linux" - financed by the PRODEP government funding system, for High School students (10th-12th grade)
  - Topics of the lectures: Security, DNS, IP Routing, IP Aliasing, Virtual Hosts in Apache and Sendmail
  
  Keywords: security, dns, ip Routing, ip aliasing, virtual hosts, apache, sendmail.

Nuno Loureiro’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  MSc, Information Technology - Information Security, 2008 — 2009 (expected)

• Erlang Training

  Erlang 2007 — 2007

  One week course from Process One entitled "Erlang Programming".

• Ruby on Rails Training

  Ruby on Rails 2007 — 2007

  A 3 day course from Webreakstuff on Ruby on Rails.

• FCCN - CERT.PT

  Creating a CSIRT 2006

• Zend/PHP

  Zend Certified Engineer, Zend Certification, 2005

  Certificate Authentication:
  http://zend.com/store/education/certification/authenticate.php?ClientCandidateID=ZEND901213&RegistrationID=0910218

• Universidade do Algarve

  BSc (5-year), Computer and Systems Engineering, 2002

  - Dissertation titled "phdwait - PHP Database Web Application Toolkit", available as opensource at http://phdwait.sf.net/

• ICP (Portuguese Communications Institute)

  February 1998

  Porto, Portugal.
  
  Amateur Radio Certification, Category C

• Externato Nossa Sra. do Perpetuo Socorro

  June 1993

  Porto, Portugal.
  
  Completed the Professional Computer Technical Course (High School equivalent) with an average of 15 values in 20.

Additional Information

Nuno Loureiro’s Websites:

• SAPO Mail
• My Company
• My Website

Nuno Loureiro’s Interests:

Software Architect, Web Application Development, E-Mail Services, Anti-Spam Architect, Computer Security. Besides IT interests, hiking, rock climbing, alpinism, traveling. "I am authorized to work in Portugal/E.U. and in the U.S.”

Nuno Loureiro’s Groups:

•    Zend Certified Engineers
•    Open Source
•    Information Security Professionals in Portugal
•    Carnegie Mellon University

Nuno Loureiro’s Honors:

* Oct 2002 - Linux Journal
Author of the featured article - "Programming PHP with Security in Mind" - of Linux Journal, issue 102.

* Jun 1999 - University of the Algarve
Author and Orator of the seminary: "IPv6 - The Internet of the next generation" together with Joao Rochate, inserted in the seminaries of the department of Computers and Electronic Engineering of the the University of Algarve.

* Dec1996: University of the Minho - Portugal
Participated in the first Inter-Universities Championship of Computer Programming (in C) achieved the 5th place.

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