Assistant Professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Ian Bastos is an Assistant Professor and researcher with nine years of hands-on experience in computer networks, security, and software-defined networking, holding a D.Sc., M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Universidade Federal Fluminense. He has led SDN and NFV projects—building an ONOS-based IEC 61850 automation app with failure recovery and designing VNF auto-scaling algorithms for 5G-enabled smart cities—bridging academic research and practical network engineering. Currently deputy coordinator of RNP’s Cybersecurity Technical Committee, he focuses on named data networking, wireless systems, optimization, and reinforcement learning for telecoms. A past visiting researcher at LIP6 and contributor to the FreeCol open-source game (backend bug fixes and gameplay logic), he combines rigorous academic training with real-world coding and open-source curiosity. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he brings a blend of protocol-level expertise and applied security perspective to complex networked systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
D.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Systems, D.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Systems at Universidade Federal Fluminense
FreeCol: FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on bug fixes and minor enhancements to the game logic, particularly concerning unit movement and interaction with the game map. They addressed issues related to ship navigation and colony interactions, as well as removed unnecessary logging statements. Furthermore, the user contributed to website content changes for the FreeCol project.
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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