Experience

  1. Lead Research Engineer

    Inria (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Leading the OpenSwarm Testbed (goal: 1,000 DotBots), coordinating partners across Europe and Asia
    • Designed and implemented Mari, a TSCH-over-BLE protocol for dense robot swarms (200+ nodes validated)
    • Co-authoring the ELA (Lightweight Authorization) IETF draft
    • Publishing at international conferences (e.g., DCOSS-IoT), mentoring interns, and organizing hackathons
    • Maintaining Lakers (Rust EDHOC stack) and related tooling
  2. Research Engineer

    Inria (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Developed Lakers, a Rust implementation of EDHOC with C/Python bindings
    • Co-designed and implemented the ELA protocol for zero-touch IoT onboarding
    • Published results on IoT security at WCNC 2024 and DCOSS-IoT 2024
    • Participated in IETF hackathons and contributed to LAKE working group drafts
  3. Software Engineer and Researcher

    LSI-TEC (Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis Tecnológico)

    Responsibilities include:

    • Led IoT Smart City pilot deployed in 20 police vehicles (real-time safety system)
    • Created SmartABAC and secure IoT swarm libraries, used in 10+ research papers
    • Authored and delivered a national IoT MOOC reaching 100k+ students
    • Developed Elixir/Python SDKs for distributed IoT agents and decentralized identifiers (DIDs)
    • Secured R&D funding and disseminated research via talks and workshops
  4. Software Engineer

    LG Electronics

    Responsibilities include:

    • Worked on Android OS connectivity stack (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE, Email, SMS)
    • Debugged and fixed critical issues in networking subsystems
    • Automated workflows with custom scripts to improve team efficiency

Education

  1. PhD Electrical Engineering

    University of Sao Pualo
    Thesis on Decentralized Security for Constrained IoT Swarms. Presented papers at 13 IEEE conferences and 5 journals.
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  2. BSc Computer Science

    West-Central University of Paraná
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