Summary
Ygor Simões is a Senior Software Engineer from Bahia, Brazil with eight years of experience building secure, scalable backend systems primarily in Java, Kotlin, Go and Clojure. He has delivered production microservices and infrastructure automation for major financial institutions and fintechs, with hands-on experience across AWS, Terraform and serverless Python Lambdas. As an information security researcher and former cyber security engineer, he combines pentesting tool development and open-source contributions with pragmatic software engineering to harden mission-critical services. Ygor has driven fraud prevention and risk solutions at PagBank and contributed to authorization and prevention systems at Itaú Unibanco, demonstrating both domain expertise and operational rigor. Colleagues describe him as an out-of-the-box thinker who bridges research-driven security insights with day-to-day delivery of resilient systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Centro Universitário Internacional UNINTER
Portuguese, English, Spanish