Experience & Education

Professional Experience

Software Engineer, Network Automation | D.E. Shaw & Co. | Dec 2025 - Present

  • Built network data-collection and CI dashboards for operational visibility
  • Developed an anycast route cross-validation tool to catch advertisement inconsistencies
  • Supported a data-store migration to a Kubernetes-hosted database
  • Improved upgrade workflows and built Claude skills for on-call NRE operations

Research Software Developer | Argonne National Laboratory | Dec 2022 - Sep 2025

  • Led development of SciStream, an open-source secure data-streaming HPC framework
  • Migrated inter-service messaging from ZeroMQ to gRPC and added Globus OAuth 2.0 authentication
  • Designed modular architecture with Stunnel, HAProxy, Nginx, and CLI tooling

Senior Network Automation Engineer | Johnson & Johnson | May 2022 - Jun 2023

  • Supported Itential Automation platform deployments
  • Established CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins enhancing software quality
  • Developed Ansible tests using Molecule and Docker

Network Automation Engineer | Hudson River Trading | Mar 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Extended NAPALM library to support business-specific compliance checks
  • Expanded a multi-vendor telemetry service with improved Prometheus exporters and Sensu checks

Network Automation Engineer | Cargill | Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

  • Championed certification of Cumulus and Pica8 network devices
  • Supervised compliance enforcement of +10000 devices
  • Mentored junior engineers in adopting NetDevOps practices

Network Automation Engineer | PayPal | Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Oversaw the deployment and maintenance of 100+ racks
  • Guided network engineers to adopt Infrastructure as Code practices
  • Developed a configuration generation system for VXLAN-EBGP fabric
  • Assisted development of API for automation of networking operations

DevOps Engineer (Network Automation) | Verizon Telematics | Jan 2017 - Apr 2018

  • Automated network provisioning of fully open source BGP fabric via Ansible
  • Implemented continuous deployment of datacenter sites
  • Designed and tested configuration management Ansible playbooks

Research & Development Intern | Open Networking Lab | May 2015 - Aug 2016

  • Developed automated tests for OpenFlow switches
  • Executed hardware evaluation of OpenFlow switches
  • Implemented southbound ONOS OF drivers to handle OFDPA specificities

Systems Engineer Intern | Cisco Systems | Sep 2013 - Jun 2014

  • Developed Python scripts using Scapy to test performance and demonstrate Cisco Security solutions
  • Maintained Lab infrastructure for technical demonstrations of Cisco products

Education

M.S. in Computer Science | Georgia Institute of Technology | May 2016

B.S.E in Communication Networks Engineering | University of Brasilia | Jul 2014

Summer Specialization, Computer Science | Stanford University | Aug 2013

Communications Engineering | University of Minnesota | May 2013

Product Management Bootcamp | General Assembly | 2019

Honors & Awards

  • Best Paper (Short Paper), INDIS 2025
  • BSMP/Fulbright Scholarship, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014-2016)
  • BSMP/Fulbright Scholarship, University of Minnesota (2012-2013)
  • CAPES Scholarship - REUNI, University of Brasília (2011)

Certifications

  • OCSA ONF Certified SDN Associate (July 2016)
  • CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate - R&S (February 2014)

Conferences & Technical Events

  • Atlanta Blockchain Conference 2025
  • Confab 2025 - talk on SSH vs. TLS benchmarks
  • SuperComputing 2024 - led technical workshop on secure streaming
  • GlobusWorld 2024
  • Atlanta Blockchain Conference 2019
  • AnsibleFest 2018
  • NANOG 73 + Hackathon - 2nd place
  • ONS 2018 - Open Networking Summit
  • NANOG 72 + Hackathon
  • Networking @Scale (Facebook)
  • CORD Summit 2016
  • Open Networking Summit 2016
  • OpenDaylight Summit 2015
  • Open Networking Summit 2015
  • Cisco Brazil Security Bootcamp

Leadership Experience

Director and IT consultant | EngNet Junior Enterprise | Apr 2008 - Aug 2012

  • Led a dynamic team of 20 students
  • Coordinated recruiting process, designed training programs and organized workshops
  • Orchestrated a robust backup strategy for the company’s IT infrastructure
  • Developed and tested prototype systems for small businesses in C#, PHP, JS, C++