Denis França is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, privacy-focused systems across fintech and large tech. He helped launch core Nubank products and infrastructure that enabled LATAM expansion, then led Identity at Uber to cut account takeovers and authentication latency by moving auth to the edge and implementing OAuth and SSO. Now at Google he leads cross-area teams safeguarding sensitive data company-wide, applying both product-level impact and security rigor. Denis combines hands-on engineering with team-building—regularly shipping platform-level changes that reduce costs and improve reliability. He holds engineering degrees from CentraleSupélec and USP and brings a track record of solving high-stakes, user-facing problems at scale. An understated strength is his ability to turn complex security and privacy requirements into pragmatic, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Engineering, Master's degree Engineering at CentraleSupélec
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Escola Politécnica da USP
tldr-pages for navi, an interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 14 days
navilinuxcheatsheettldr-pagestldr
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.