Summary
Luis Da Costa is a software engineer and CEO with 11 years of experience building secure, open-source-first hardware and software from Lisbon. As Co-Founder and leader of LibreTrend, he led development of the Librebox and the LT1000 mainboard—the first factory-shipped coreboot desktop—and designed a TPM 2.x implementation to raise hardware security standards. He combines hands-on engineering (embedded, backend, iOS) with product and manufacturing leadership, having launched laptop and desktop brands and coordinated international manufacturing partnerships. Previous roles include R&D and DevOps work delivering AI-driven web crawling, SaaS platforms, and e-commerce tooling, demonstrating breadth across cloud, Linux ops, and mobile. His career shows a consistent commitment to GNU/Linux and FOSS principles while turning ambitious open-source hardware projects into market-ready products. Outside typical CEO duties, he still codes and ships low-level firmware and security components, bridging engineering depth with entrepreneurial execution.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Curso Profissional, Informática e Gestão, Curso Profissional, Informática e Gestão at Escola Secundária de Santo André
Engineer's degree, Engenharia de Software, Engineer's degree, Engenharia de Software at Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese