Summary
Fernando Ribeiro is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building mobile, embedded, and backend systems, currently leading R&D at Drivemode in Tokyo. He combines deep hands-on expertise in iOS/Android development, Bluetooth/L2CAP and CAN BUS protocols, hardware prototyping and PCB design with backend scaling using Docker, Kubernetes and gRPC. Known internally for reverse engineering, pentesting and competitor analysis, he has driven collaborations with OEMs like Honda and partners including Sony and Panasonic. He led cross-functional teams, established CI pipelines with self-hosted GitHub Actions, and holds a patent for a terminal device control method. Comfortable across software and hardware boundaries, he brands himself a "Mad Scientist" and brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach to productizing novel connectivity solutions.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese