Summary
Edison Figueira is a seasoned technology leader and GenAI evangelist with over 30 years in cybersecurity and eight years focused on AI, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Fortics. He built Brazil’s first UTM and E-Mail Firewall, created the EOS Linux security distribution, and led large-scale R&D and product teams to ship security and automation products worldwide. Today he architects cloud-native, microservices-based ML/NLP chatbots and workforce automation, bridging deep technical implementation (C/C++, Python, PostgreSQL) with strategic partnerships at Google, Microsoft and Meta. A pragmatic researcher and speaker, he publishes and contributes to open-source security projects (ClamAV, kernel builds) and authored development management patterns like Bugio. Known for turning constrained-resource, high-performance systems into reliable products, he combines field-tested security rigor with a futurist vision for collaborative intelligent systems.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
FIA - Formação Inteligência Artificial Data Science, FIA - Formação Inteligência Artificial Data Science at Data Science Academy
IAM - Inteligência Artificial e Machine Learning, IAM - Inteligência Artificial e Machine Learning at Universidade Leonardo da Vinci