Hugo Costa
Software Development Engineer III at Amazon
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Costa is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 8 years of experience, currently at Amazon in Luxembourg where he drives large-scale efficiency and cost-avoidance programs impacting hundreds of thousands of internal projects. He has led modular orchestration, validation, and modernization efforts that collectively unlocked >$50M in savings and slashed manual processes from weeks to days, while preventing millions in operational losses. Skilled across Kotlin, Python, Java and AWS serverless platforms, he combines hands-on engineering with program-level coordination to deliver zero-touch, company-wide upgrades and CVE remediations. Hugo also contributes to privacytools.io as a technical writer and curator, reflecting an interest in privacy and security best practices beyond his core systems work. His background in business administration and early roles in analytics and vendor management give him a rare mix of technical depth and operational/business context.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Russia - Exchange Semester, Russia - Exchange Semester at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business at Católica Porto Business School
Russian, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
6answers
1question
Github Skills (18)
content-management-system10
website-development10
content-management10
html10
website-design10
documentation10
privacy9
user-interface7
keras6
pyqt6
bots6
kaggle6
beautifulsoup6
machine-learning6
python6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
privacytools/privacytools.io
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Content Curator
Technical Writer & Content CuratorContributions:22 commits, 14 PRs, 74 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the project by updating and curating content within the `index.html` file. They added new sections related to Android add-ons, updated links, corrected descriptions, and incorporated warnings about potential security risks. Their work also involved modifying the layout and structure of the page, enhancing the accessibility and information presented to the user.
protectprivacysurveillanceprivacy-protectionencryption
hugoncosta/Workshop-Git
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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