Fernando Da Costa
Engineering Manager at iFood
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Da Costa is an experienced cybersecurity leader with 11 years of hands-on expertise in application protection, identity governance, and security automation, currently serving as Engineering Manager at iFood. He has driven cloud security and resilience initiatives across AWS, Azure, Cloudflare and Akamai—designing disaster recovery plans, automating backups, and remediating critical cloud misconfigurations. Adept at translating technical risks into business decisions, he builds measurable security programs (dashboards, metrics, vulnerability SLAs) that balance protection and user experience. A former Red Team lead and pentester, he pairs offensive security instincts with governance and compliance know-how (CIS, NIST, LGPD, ISO 27001). With graduate studies in distributed systems and information security, he treats security as a competitive advantage and a catalyst for safe innovation.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroWebMaster Web Development, WebMaster Web Development at Instituto Infnet
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (16)
soc8
projeto7
bootloader7
espressif5
targets2
linkedin2
api2
scraper2
security1
golang1
rust-lang1
restful1
pdf1
whatsapp1
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nandohdc/INF1301
May 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
nandohdc/INF1019
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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