Rafael Ladislau
Senior Staff & Cloud Engineer at Duranium
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Ladislau is a Senior Staff & Cloud Engineer with 15+ years building secure, scalable cloud platforms and AI-driven security products, currently leading antifraud and PIX payment security engineering at Duranium. He blends deep cloud architecture and DevSecOps expertise on AWS and Kubernetes with applied NLP/LLM work to detect social engineering and fraud in real time, while ensuring compliance with BACEN and other regulatory frameworks. Rafael previously architected and operated a FedRAMP-certified research facility used by 50+ government agencies and led cloud and cybersecurity from inception at Darwin Seguros, delivering resilient, automated infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD and observability stacks. As a consultant on the Democratizing Data project he built multi-agent LLM pipelines that analyze 90M+ publications to map dataset usage for federal agencies, revealing reproducibility signals beyond citation counts. He is passionate about structuring codebases and infrastructure to make teams productive with AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code-ready), a practical but often overlooked lever for engineering velocity. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he pairs academic rigor (MSc in Computer Science) with hands-on delivery across security, compliance, and AI operations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Cybersecurity, Diploma in Cybersecurity at NYU School of Professional StudiesMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal Fluminense
English, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
node-http-proxy10
node-http10
multi-user10
jupyter9
jupyterhub9
single-user9
ipython9
proxy9
authenticator9
sudo9
jupyter-notebook9
rest-api8
python8
api8
spawn8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rafael-ladislau/oauthenticator
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
authenticatorjupyterhub-authenticatorjupyterjupyterhuboauth
NYU-CI/keycloak
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
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