Hugo Rodrigues

In addition to his core role, Hugo currently serves as Champion AI for SAP Internal IT & Operations, acting as an internal evangelist for AI adoption. He leads hackathons, mentors peers, and contributes to practical AI-driven initiatives such as assistants, automation, and access optimisation. Leads internal AI hackathons fostering grassroots innovation and technical upskilling. Acts as AI Evangelist, translating complex concepts into actionable business improvements. Directly contributes to AI use cases, including knowledge assistants, process automation, and access governance. Strengthens internal AI culture through peer mentoring and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Strategic cybersecurity architecture and management to interconnect and operate mission-critical distributed systems. Security architect deploying tactics to maintain confidentiality, access, and non-repudiation overseeing network and endpoints in multi-tenant cloud platforms. Compliance to implement reference security controls (NIST, OWASP, ISO27001, etc.). Whitehat. Specialties: CyberSecurity, Azure, Openstack, Scripting, CLI, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, XDR, Security Groups, Kubernetes, Microservices, GCP, AWS, MPLS, Public, Hyperledger Fabric, Edge, Network, BGP, Peering, OWASP, Linux, Cisco, ISP, Smoke Tests, Pentest, DNS, Iso27001, Itil, Cobit, Hipaa, NIST

Build a worldwide private network to support Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. Leverage on Peering and Content Delivery Network operations. Region lead for LATAM bridging engineering teams with a myriad of Internet Service Providers to implement and support, running troubleshoot and root cause analysis. Specialties: CDN, Servers, Switches, Edge, Networks, BGP, IX, SDN, PNI, Public, Peering, XC, X-Conn, Cross-connect, Free, Fibre extension, Linux, Cisco, Juniper, Corning, LACP, LAG, ISP, Installation, Bundles, POP, Datacenter, Python, Azure, AWS

Developed a proprietary scientific marketing approach to businesses providing an educational path targeted to tackle the hyper-converged startup market in San Francisco Organized marketing and behavioral psychology events to a community with 1000+ members at Runway Incubator, San Francisco. Mentored startups at Founders Space Incubator in seasonal cohorts. Invited contributor to the GSV Labs, Redwood City. Specialties: Research, Cognitive Science, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management, Consulting, Pitching

Portugal representation to break the World Guinness Record for the highest number of different nationalities in a business class - counting 80. Participant of the Venture Group; Behavioral Psychology Club; BigData Club; San Francisco Software and Technology Specialties: MBA, USA, China, Cognitive-computing strategy in Food Industry for IBM, Autonomous Vehicle global strategy for BMW, Strategic m-commerce solution for Target, Expansion plan for m-Payment in Emergent Markets, Data science and visualization

Managed a team of cloud and security consultants, delivering systems architectural solutions across different markets: Healthcare, financial services, automotive, technology, consumer goods. Specialties: C-Level, team management, cloud evangelist, cloud business advocator, cloud architecture, cloud technical lead, poet & plumber

Pioneered Private Clouds to offload and isolate computing and storage resources in highly secured systems. Technology disruptor pushing managed virtualization technologies to the market, consolidating customers' systems into POD's. Specialties: Azure, Hypervisors, Enterprise storage, Computing, Networking, Exadata, As400, OpenStack, Huawei, Big data, Hybrid, Data Center

Security evangelist for core systems protection and availability by leveraging on robust, connected, and mature data center infrastructures positioned across Portugal. Specialties: Computing, Storage, Networking, Security, Architecture, Managed Services, Data Center, Operations

Business consultant for Data Center co-location and hosting services, working on the design and implementation for core systems. Specialties: Data center, housing, hosting, security

Developed the first official lottery website in Portugal, backed up by the largest lottery retail organization in the country. This is a regulated industry and the highest challenge was to make the system compliant with the law. Specialties: Hosting, Operations, Security, Website development, Python, JAVA, SOA, C#, MS-SQL, MySQL, Security, Networking, DNS, Systems Integration, Electronics

Web developer focused on Microsoft technologies, having joined the .NET early adopter program in Portugal. Specialties: .NET, C#, Java, C++, MS-SQL, Networking, Systems Admin

Developed the official UEFA Accommodation website for the European Soccer competition "UEFA Euro 2004" in Portugal. Specialties: ASP.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, MS-SQL, C++, SOAP, API

Pioneered real-time sports results delivered through a website resulting in an exponential growth of visitors - "jogos em directo". Specialties: VB, C#, HTML, MS-SQL, Java, C++, Delphi, Networking

One-year intensive MBA

Blockchain, MultiChain streams, personal blockchain, EC2, Mining

Train specialists that are capable of handling, editing and analyzing information, specifically in order to support decision making on a conceptual and abstract level, in the context of management activities in public and private organizations.

Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems - Specialization in Business Engineering Areas: Governance, Architecture, Operations and Monitoring of Business Management Programs and Projects Processes, information and services and their alignment Infrastructure and business systems Transformation and Change Management Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

Computer Electronics Science