Catarina Paralta
Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolCatarina Paralta is an engineering technical leader based in Lisbon with six years of hands-on software engineering experience and an Integrated Master's in Mechanical Engineering. She has progressed through multiple roles at Cisco—ranging from software engineer and scrum master to senior engineer focused on cloud-native security and agentic AI infrastructure, and now leads engineering efforts as a technical leader. Her background blends systems-level work on real-time media microservices with solution architecture experience at Siemens, giving her both deep implementation chops and cross-technology design perspective. Passionate about AI and open source, she drives production-ready integrations for cloud and agentic AI use cases while keeping a practitioner’s focus on reliability and scalability. An early aerodynamics researcher and developer, she brings a methodical, engineering-first approach to complex software problems.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Mechanical Engineering, Erasmus Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers University of TechnologyIntegrated Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Integrated Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
scanner10
vulnerability-scanners10
sbom10
virtual-machine10
security10
malware10
secrets-detection10
vulnerabilities10
agentic9
observability9
cloud-native9
grype8
integration-testing2
yara2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paralta/dir
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Distributed Announce and Discovery of Multi-Agentic-Systems
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
paralta/convert-image-to-text
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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