Victor Costa
Development Engineer (FPGA) at Ponto Azul Labs
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Costa is a development engineer specializing in FPGA and embedded systems with eight years of hands-on experience spanning satellite missions, drone-based image processing, and biomedical signal electronics. He combines academic rigor from ITA and UFSM with practical spacecraft and avionics work—contributing to CubeSat OBDH architectures and FPGA flight-software for ITASAT2 and SelenITA. As founder and scientific director of Ponto Azul Labs and current FPGA engineer at SIATT, he bridges research and productization, often focusing on fault-tolerant reconfigurable computing and microelectronics for signal processing and neurosciences. Victor’s background in analog IC design for ECG R-peak detection and experience bringing up Jetson Nano systems on UAVs reveal a rare blend of low-level analog, digital FPGA, and embedded AI competence.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's, Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa MariaMaster's, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Master's, Electronic and Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (14)
particle-swarm-optimization10
metaheuristics9
simulated-annealing9
bioinformatics5
python3
weka3
science3
java-time2
data-science2
neuroimaging2
java2
machine-learning2
neuroscience2
time-series1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vctrop/R8-core_FPGA_microcontroller
Mar 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
vctrop/bank_of_metaheuristics
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Accurate and comprehensible implementation of multiple metaheuristics.
Contributions:91 commits, 75 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
optimization-algorithmssimulated-annealingmetaheuristicspython3ant-colony-optimization
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