Diego Chavão is a Senior/Staff Software Engineer and independent consultant from Rio de Janeiro with 14 years of professional experience and nearly 18 years of hands-on engineering practice. He specializes in backend systems, reliability, and maintainability, delivering solutions across fintech, AI-driven education, and NFT marketplaces while leading small teams and embedding as a long-term contractor. At Globo he helped scale high-traffic systems—contributing to a voting platform that handled over a billion votes—and built developer self-service tools and admin platforms to accelerate delivery for 60+ teams. He has practical security chops reflected in contributions to the popular secDevLabs project and experience hardening apps against XML external entity vulnerabilities. Diego combines pragmatic engineering (microservices, payment/ledger systems, data pipelines) with product-focused automation and a track record of turning complex workflows into reliable, auditable services.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Extension, Digital Media Analyst, Marketing, Extension, Digital Media Analyst, Marketing at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Faculdade Paraíso
A laboratory for learning secure web and mobile development in a practical manner.
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Contributions:13 commits, 16 PRs, 7 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to the security of the application by avoiding XML external entity vulnerabilities, specifically removing `LIBXML_NOENT`. They also worked on mounting application folders as Docker volumes for various OWASP Top 10 applications, enhancing deployment and configuration. Further commits include modifications to backend logic in Python, returning specific messages based on the password.
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 109 pushes in 10 years 8 months
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Diego Chavão - Senior Software Engineer at DC3 Consulting