Heitor Vital
Sr. Manager, AWS GenAI Innovation Center
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeitor Vital is a senior cloud and AI leader with nearly 10 years at AWS, currently directing the GenAI Innovation Center to build reusable frameworks that accelerate secure, responsible AI adoption for enterprise customers and partners. He combines hands-on engineering—early work includes AWS WAF security automations and contributions to the Generative AI CDK Library showcased at AWS re:Invent—with strategic leadership that has driven hundreds of millions in customer impact. His background spans cloud security, automation, and scalable developer tooling, informed by an Executive MBA from FGV and MIT training in applied data science. Notably, he has built solutions that were deployed tens of thousands of times globally and helped translate security research into production services for broad adoption. Based in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, Heitor brings a pragmatic focus on reducing time-to-value while championing Responsible AI and cross-team collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA in Strategic Management of Information Technology Management IT, Executive MBA in Strategic Management of Information Technology Management IT at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasPost-Graduation Software Engineering, Post-Graduation Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de PernambucoApplied Data Science Program: Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making, Applied Data Science Program: Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making at MIT Professional Education
Github Skills (8)
aws-s310
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-s310
python10
s3-bucket10
infrastructure-as-code9
devops8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-archives/aws-waf-sample
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
This repository contains example scripts and sets of rules for the AWS WAF service. Please be aware that the applicability of these examples to specific workloads may vary.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:24 commits, 13 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Heitor primarily worked on a Python-based AWS WAF solution, focusing on reactive blacklisting. Their contributions involved creating and modifying Python scripts to parse access logs, identify malicious IP addresses, and integrate with AWS WAF to block them. They implemented logic for managing blocked IP addresses, including expiration of rules, and utilized services like S3 and WAF. They also made adjustments to the configuration and deployment aspects of the project, including the CloudFormation template.
aws-wafworkloadsapplicabilityamazon-web-serviceswaf
aws-solutions/aws-waf-security-automations
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
This solution automatically deploys a single web access control list (web ACL) with a set of AWS WAF rules designed to filter common web-based attacks.
Contributions:13 commits, 5 pushes, 93 comments in 5 months
wafawsaccess-control-listwaf-rulesweb-acl
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