Meet the team
Rafael Simões

CEO/CTO

Rafael Simões

Ansião, Leiria, Portugal

Rafael leads Secplify’s technical direction, bringing together cybersecurity engineering, security architecture and cloud and on-premises infrastructure. His focus is on designing practical systems with security considered from the start.

Areas of expertise

  • Cloud Computing
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
  • Docker
  • Monitoring Solutions
  • Systems Design
  • Disaster Recovery Solutions
  • Network Security
  • Reverse Engineering

Education

Master in Cybersecurity

Aveiro University · 2020 - 2024

Bachelor in Computer Science

Aveiro University · 2017 - 2020

Selected work & research

Advanced Container-Based Honeynet for Automated Threat Detection and Analysis

Developed a scalable, container-based honeynet for Universidade de Aveiro, featuring automated honeypot deployment, service mirroring, detailed logging, and dashboards, built on Kubernetes, FastAPI, RabbitMQ, Golang, eBPF, and Elasticsearch.

Adversarial Attacks study on Recommendation Systems

Implemented a blind optimization–based adversarial attack using Differential Evolution to evaluate the robustness of Bellkor and Funk-SVD recommendation algorithms, including a proof-of-concept system and a scholarly article summarizing the findings.

Minerva - Social Network Mining

A system of bots was developed to simulate human activity on Twitter, enabling continuous data collection and analysis of information dissemination, follower interactions, and engagement patterns to study how content spreads across the platform.

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