I'm a third-year Informatics Engineering student at ISEP in Porto, currently on an Erasmus semester at Aarhus University in Denmark. Most of my free time goes into CTFs, and I want to build a career in offensive security.
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🎯 Currently: preparing for the AWS Cloud Practitioner and CEH exams.
- 🇵🇹 Cybersecurity Challenge PT 2026: one of the 15 juniors selected for the national bootcamp where the National Cybersecurity Centre picks the team that represents Portugal at the European Cybersecurity Challenge. Finished in the junior top 10.
- 🚩 CHAØS, ISEP's CTF team: 8th out of more than 300 teams at upCTF 2026, my first CTF. I've played many more since.
- 🥇 Best Project Award at ISEP for All Aboard, the first-year integrative project.
- 📜 Certifications: Cisco CCNA. Training for AWS Cloud Practitioner and CEH completed.
| 💻 Programming | |
| ☁️ Cloud & tooling | |
| 🎮 Web & game dev | |
| 🛡️ Security |    CTFs, mostly forensics, reverse engineering, pwn and misc; CEH training completed |
| 🌐 Networking |  Routing, switching and network fundamentals (CCNA) |
| 🗣️ Languages | 🇵🇹 Portuguese (native) · 🇬🇧 English (C1, IELTS Academic) |
Most of my coursework and competition projects live in private repositories 🔒, so here's what I built and how much of it was mine:
| Project | What it is | Main languages | My commits | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IoT sensor node | Group IoT project in its design phase: an ESP32-C6 board with a VL6180X distance sensor, publishing readings over MQTT | ESP32-C6, MQTT | team member, in progress | 2026 |
| AISafe | Flight control management prototype: Java console apps, a flight-plan DSL parsed with ANTLR, a C simulation engine, and user roles with security clearances | Java, C, Python | 117 of 627, team of 5 | 2025/26, 4th semester |
| LAPR3 integrative project | Java application with C, C++ and Assembly modules and a PL/SQL database, including algorithm complexity analysis | Java, C, C++ | 167 of 665, team of 4 | 2025/26, 3rd semester |
| JPA persistence demo | Java console app persisting its domain objects with JPA (EclipseLink) on an H2 database, built for the EAPLI course | Java | 2 of 4, team of 2 | 2025/26 |
| CCNA 3 network automation | Ansible playbooks that apply base configuration to and back up the routers of a lab network, for the CCNA 3 (ENSA) final project | Ansible, YAML | team member | 2025/26 |
| European stations dataset | Python collector that merges railway stations and airports across Europe from OpenStreetMap and OurAirports into one CSV, with duplicate detection (built with Copilot's help) | Python | 3 of 3, solo | 2025 |
| All Aboard (Best Project Award) | First-year integrative project covering every first-year module: a Java application built through a full development process (requirements, OO analysis and design, unit tests with coverage) plus data analysis in Jupyter | Java, Python | 115 of 539, team of 5 | 2024/25, 2nd semester |
| Sueca bot tournament (ENEI) | Competition bots for Sueca, the Portuguese card game, running in Docker containers against other teams | Java, JavaScript, Python | 9 of 10 (top contributor), team of 2 | 2025 |
| Face identification with Eigenfaces | Face identification and image reconstruction using Eigenfaces (PCA), written in Java | Java | 82 of 145 (top contributor), team of 5 | 2024/25, 1st semester |
| EV fleet charging analysis | Java console program that reads electric-vehicle mileage data and works out daily recharges, battery levels, charging costs and above-average vehicles (APROG assignment) | Java | 39 of 49 (top contributor), team of 2 | 2024/25, 1st semester |
| QuintinhaVirtual website | Business-card website for a fictional organic farm shop, customised from an HTML template | HTML, SCSS, JavaScript | 13 of 15 (top contributor), team of 2 | 2024/25, 1st semester |
- ✉️ Email: nunogoncalves070906@gmail.com
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nunogonçalves070906