Frederico Bittencourt
Software Engineer at Helsing
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFrederico Bittencourt is a Berlin‑based software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and cloud-native infrastructure. He has driven performance and availability improvements at Red Hat for the StackRox security platform, led sensor redesigns that cut resource use, and contributed test harnesses and debugging tools for Kubernetes environments. At SAP he delivered REST and gRPC services, CI/CD pipelines and Terraform automation across relational and NoSQL datastores, and now continues hands‑on engineering at Helsing. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core Ruby tooling like bundler/rubygems and helped harden high-profile projects such as the Corona Warn App and StackRox. Pragmatic about design and a supporter of shipping better software not more, he brings a blend of performance-focused engineering and practical DevOps experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UnisinosYear 12 - College High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Year 12 - College High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Avondale College New ZealandAdvance English Course & Exam in Cape Town South Africa English, Advance English Course & Exam in Cape Town South Africa English at EC English Language Centres AlumniEnglish Course English, English Course English at Yazigi
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (36)
dependency-manager10
kubernetes10
package-management10
rubygems10
testing10
it-security10
command-line-interface10
java10
ruby10
security10
javas10
go10
bundler10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
corona-warn-app/cwa-server
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Backend implementation for the Apple/Google exposure notification API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 48 commits, 78 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Frederico primarily focused on back-end development tasks, specifically within the context of the CWA-Server backend implementation. Their contributions involved modifying Java code, particularly in the `DistributionServiceConfig.java` file, to adjust private key file regex and handle file path specifications for the Helm chart. They also worked on integration tests, and merging changes from the master branch.
apinotification-apiexposure-notification-apicwa-serverexposure-notification
stackrox/stackrox
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:811 reviews, 205 commits, 350 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Frederico primarily contributed to improving the sensor component of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform by integrating the `backoff` library for retrying requests, optimizing the sensor's communication with central, and updating the deployment configuration. The commits also included the addition of functionality to include Node Names as cluster identifiers for sensor connection errors and utilizing the `nobody` user within the `roxctl` docker image for security. These changes enhanced the sensor's resilience, security, and connection stability.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
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