Carlos Costa

Current

Software Engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center

Past

System Analyst for ERP Solutions at ALBRAS Alumínio Brasileiro S/A

Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas
CESUPA - University Center of Pará

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Carlos Costa’s Summary

Software Engineer with experience in Open Source methods and practices. FOSS enthusiast and community member, developing projects to be deployed on GNU/Linux. Articulated on words, writing articles to technical magazines and also speaks in conferences. Ability to develop rapport with peers and able to work independently.

Carlos Costa’s Specialties:

Experience with Python, C, Linux, Bash script, AWK, Regular Expressions, LaTeX, GCC, diff and patch, GDB, Makefile, strace, SVN (subversion), iptables (netfilter) and OpenSSH. Beginner in the Art of Kernel Hacking.

Knowledge about Oracle Database Server, PL/SQL, Delphi (Object Pascal) and ERP like PeopleSoft. Satisfatory knowledge about Microsoft Windows and MFC.

Previous experience with HTML, Javascript, Apache, PHP and MySQL.

Carlos Costa’s Experience

Software Engineer

IBM Linux Technology Center

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

* Since 05/2006 I'm working as Software Engineer along with 8 other team members whose goal is easing Linux installation on POWER Servers and distributing IBM value-added software through IBM Installation Toolkit, a Linux liveCD system used by 7500+ System p customers. Visit product website and know more about:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/installtools/home.html

* Since 01/2007 I'm the focal point of the Internal Builds Project with the aim of rebuild Enterprise distributions, like SLES and RHEL, to support new POWER6 architecture/hardware. My work is to apply POWER6 patches against enterprise kernel and packages, rebuild the installation system and the ISOs, thus provide internally custom version of the distributions for test's people.
System Analyst for ERP Solutions

ALBRAS Alumínio Brasileiro S/A

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Mining & Metals industry)

April 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Worked as System Analyst and Solutions Integrator for ERP, developed solutions combining Oracle Database Server with PeopleSoft financials and in the development of a Contract Manager/workflow Module, totally design and developed specially to attempt internal necessities.

Carlos Costa’s Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Master Degree in Eletrical and Computer Engineering, Areas of Telecommunication and Telematic, 2003 — 2006

Research Theme: Pattern Recognition, Biometrics Systems
Advisor: Prof. João Yabu-uti, PhD.
GPA: 3.5 of 4.0

Articles published in the period:
- C.R. do N. Costa et al, "Autenticação Biométrica via Dinâmica da Digitação em Teclados Numéricos", em XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações SBrT2005, Campinas-SP, 08 de setembro de 2005.
- C.R. do N. Costa et al, "Biometric Access Control through Keystroke Dynamics in Numerical Keyboard", IAPR International Conference on Biometrics 2006 - ICBA'06, Honk Kong, China, 07 de Janeiro de 2006.

Activities and Societies:

I was member of the "Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Network Security", I assisted my Advisor into a undergraduate course as a member of the Program to Support the Future Teachers.
CESUPA - University Center of Pará

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Areas of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, 1998 — 2002

Research Theme: Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Gustavo Campos, PhD.
GPA: 8.25 of 10.0

Article published in the period:
- C.R. do N. Costa, F.J.C. da Silva and G.A.C. de Lima, "Utilizando o Modelo de Mapas Auto-organizáveis de Kohonen no Reconhecimento de Comandos de Voz", em X Semana de Informática da UFPA e I Escola Regional de Engenharia de Software da SBC 2003, em Belém-Pará, Outubro de 2003.

Activities and Societies:

Founder of the Computer Science Undergraduate Association.

Additional Information

Carlos Costa’s Websites:

Carlos Costa’s Interests:

hacking computers, free software, open source, system programming, Artificial Intelligence, pattern recognition, computer vision, speech recognition, biometrics systems, keystroke dynamics, user authentication, new technology, International Travel, reading

Carlos Costa’s Groups:

AlumniUnicamp
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Python Community
Open Source
A3FEEC - Associacao de Antigos Alunos da FEEC-UNICAMP