Yasodara Cordova
Investment Committee Member at Co-Develop
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolYasodara Cordova is a privacy and digital identity specialist with 13+ years of experience helping governments, multilateral organizations, and startups translate regulatory requirements into practical engineering and policy solutions. She has led privacy engineering, verifiable credentials, and security programs at scale—including oversight for systems serving 180M+ citizens at Dataprev—and advised governments across Africa, Asia, and Latin America while at the World Bank. A seasoned standards contributor and former W3C working group chair, she bridges technical architecture, GDPR/LGPD/CCPA compliance, and PETs-driven innovation, and has spoken at forums such as the World Economic Forum. Her work uniquely combines rigorous academic training (Harvard MPA, Carnegie Mellon privacy engineering) with hands-on product and organizational leadership—from founding civic-AI projects to steering investment decisions. Fluent in five languages and holding dual Brazilian-Italian citizenship, she is available for advisory, consulting, and senior privacy engineering roles with an appetite for international impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Marketing, MBA, Marketing at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasMC/MPA '22, Public Administration, MC/MPA '22, Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School, full scholarshipBachelor's degree, Design, Bachelor's degree, Design at Universidade de Brasília
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (22)
que9
projeto8
spec6
rocket6
css5
translation5
javascript4
linux4
browser4
windows4
threat-modeling4
owasp4
arch4
python4
macos3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yaso/yaso.is
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 150 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
reactjsjavascriptreactpessoal
yaso/webarquit
Mar 2016 - Apr 2023
Translation of the Web Arch to Portuguese-brasilian | traducao da spec Web Arquitecture pro Pt-br
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
arquitecturetranslationspecarchpt-br
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