Vitor Fernandes
Research Scientist at Bug Bounty
Paraíba, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolVitor Fernandes is a research scientist and offensive security professional with nine years of experience specializing in vulnerability analysis and defensive measures. He blends blockchain security research across EVM (Solidity), Substrate (Rust/ink!), Near Protocol (Rust) and Radix (Scrypto) with traditional web application hardening. His open-source work includes hands-on contributions to Globocom’s secDevLabs, implementing realistic NoSQL injection scenarios and securing full-stack applications to help train developers. Based in Paraíba, Brazil, Vitor holds a Bachelor's in Information Systems from Universidade Federal da Paraíba and pairs academic grounding with practical labs and tooling that make complex vulnerabilities teachable. He’s equally comfortable auditing smart contracts and shoring up backend systems, often surfacing subtle attack vectors that teams initially overlook.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (13)
security10
nodejs10
develop10
mongodb10
vulnerability10
mongodb-database10
expressjs9
javascript9
bash7
docker6
python6
dockers6
tornado5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
globocom/secDevLabs
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
A laboratory for learning secure web and mobile development in a practical manner.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Vitor's primary contributions involve developing and securing web applications within the context of learning secure web and mobile development. They implemented a NoSQL injection vulnerability app, including setup and validation scripts. The user also made changes to the application's back-end (app.js, db.js), which involved integrating MongoDB, implementing login/register functionality, and managing environment variables. Additional contributions included modifications to the application's front-end and deployment configurations, further highlighting a focus on full-stack development and security.
securelaboratorysecuritymobile-developmentvulnerabilities
vitor-fernandes/exploits
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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