Nelson D'souza is a security-focused software engineer based in the Portland metro area with roughly four years of recent experience driving product and firmware security at Intel and a longer engineering background across networking and cloud products. He specializes in embedding security into CI/CD—building Jenkins-based automation, integrating static and binary analysis, and hardening IoT onboarding and firmware through threat modeling and secure-by-default design. Nelson has improved security visibility and incident response with real-time Power BI dashboards and pragmatic remediation workflows that reduced manual effort and increased throughput. He pairs hands-on testing and benchmarking (including ML model performance on Intel GPUs) with stakeholder alignment and program-level context retention to keep multiple initiatives moving. Comfortable collaborating with open-source communities, he has validated and remediated side-channel issues while helping teams adopt secure coding across the SDLC. Known for synthesizing fragmented program context, he excels at tracking dependencies and sustaining momentum across complex, cross-functional programs.
4 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at PES University
Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University
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