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Pedro Escaleira

Cybersecurity Engineer

Pedro Escaleira

Coimbra, Portugal

Pedro works on secure and resilient cloud-native systems. His research and engineering interests span serverless security, cloud and edge computing, and distributed systems.

Areas of expertise

  • Serverless Computing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Edge Computing
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Distributed Systems
  • Monitoring Solutions
  • Systems Design
  • Moving Target Defense

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (Ongoing)

University of Aveiro · 2023 - Present

Master’s in Cybersecurity

University of Aveiro · 2020 - 2022

Bachelor’s in Informatics Engineering

University of Aveiro · 2017 - 2020

Selected work & research

System Call–Based Anomaly Detection for Serverless Functions

Developing lightweight machine learning models for real-time anomaly detection in serverless functions using system call tracing. Ongoing PhD work focused on efficient, adaptive runtime protection.

MoFaaS – Moving Target Defense for Serverless Functions

Designed a function-level Moving Target Defense framework using N-Version Programming and automated variant generation with LLM feedback.

MTDaaS – Moving Target Defense as a Service

Proposed and implemented a defense architecture for Edge applications and Virtual Network Functions, enabling telco operators to provide security as a service.

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