He has a ph.D. in Computational Physics from the São Carlos Institute of Physics at the University of São Paulo. His professional experience is related to embedded systems and custom hardware architectures, with a special interest on their security properties. He is a member of the Epic Leet Team, an interinstitutional team which participates in Capture-The-Flag security competitions, and which has conducted attacks to execute arbitrary malicious code in the Brazilian voting machine during the Public Security Tests of 2017.