Summary
Lucas Costa is a Brazilian computer scientist and federal public servant with a PhD in Computer Science focused on optical networks and over a decade of experience spanning research, teaching and operational IT roles. He combines deep academic expertise in SDN, OpenFlow, WDM/EON optical networks and resource provisioning with practical skills in VoIP, PBX Asterisk, Linux, Java/PHP development and SQL databases. At IBICT and Associação GigaCandanga he has driven cloud and DevOps initiatives (OpenStack, CEPH, Kubernetes/Rancher) and led network security and monitoring projects using Zabbix and Grafana. A former substitute professor at UnB, he remains active in the university’s optical networks group and on the editorial board of an international networking journal, blending research rigour with hands-on infrastructure delivery. Notably, his profile reflects a rare mix of academic publishing and frontline telecom/network operations, enabling him to translate cutting-edge research into production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado, Ciência da Computação e Informática, Pesquisa na área de redes ópticas, Doutorado, Ciência da Computação e Informática, Pesquisa na área de redes ópticas at Universidade de Brasília
Portuguese, Spanish, English