Filipe Alves
Security Researcher at Zellic
Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipe Alves is a security researcher and backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience spanning frontend, backend, game development, machine learning and blockchain. He holds an MSc in Computer Science (AI) and has shifted from ML roles at Petrobras to specializing in smart contract security, participating in audit contests and working with Code4rena, Sherlock and Cantina. More recently he contributed as a blockchain engineer in Rust and now researches security at Zellic, blending low-level protocol understanding with practical backend expertise in Rust and Go. Filipe also writes and experiments with playful open-source projects—his Doom fire algorithm repo demonstrates full-stack implementation and an eye for reusable design. Comfortable across Solidity smart contracts and core blockchain development, he brings a researcher's rigor to threat discovery and pragmatic remediation guidance. Based in Brazil, he combines academic depth with hands-on hacking to improve DeFi safety and resilient backend systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
git10
algorithms10
abstract-class10
git-repository10
object-oriented-programming10
pygame10
github10
python10
software-design9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
filipedeschamps/doom-fire-algorithm
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Playground for the fire effect from DOOM. Really simple algorithm and all experiments are welcome!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Filipe implemented the core logic for a Python-based fire effect, demonstrating full-stack capabilities. They created a `ColorPalette` class to manage color attributes and a `DoomFirePygame` class to render the fire effect using the Pygame library. Furthermore, the user designed and implemented an example application in `app.py` to interact with and control the fire effect, showing full implementation. Additionally, the user added an abstract base class `DoomFire` to promote flexible rendering implementations.
reallyfireplaygroundwelcome
filipealvesdef/dotfiles
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:204 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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