Bernardo De Araujo is a Staff Application Security Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, developer-friendly systems and leading teams at Shopify and now Stripe. He blends hands-on engineering—shipping Ruby on Rails services and security automation for large ecosystems—with leadership in vulnerability management and CI-integrated static analysis. Bernardo’s open-source contributions span backend improvements in Elixir and Rust projects (including Exercism’s Elixir exercises and enhancements to the RustScan port scanner), reflecting a pragmatic focus on code quality and performance. Based in Canada with a computer science background, he is skilled at turning security requirements into scalable, developer-centric controls while preserving product velocity.
Contributions:39 reviews, 30 commits, 29 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Bernardo's contributions focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the RustScan project. They implemented a wait mechanism to ensure child nmap processes exit completely, resolving potential zombie processes. The user also refactored the scanning code into a dedicated module for future scalability and decoupled it from argument parsing, improving the overall structure. Furthermore, the user optimized the code by reducing string allocation, thereby enhancing performance.
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 44 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Bernardo primarily contributed to the development of Elixir code within the exercism/elixir repository, focusing on implementing and refining exercises. Their work involved creating new exercises such as "accumulate", "binary-search", "change", and "hexadecimal". They also made changes to the function signature to adhere to Elixir conventions and improved the existing code with features like sorting checks and refactoring, demonstrating a strong understanding of Elixir best practices.
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Bernardo De Araujo - Staff AppSec Engineer at Stripe