Lucas Palma
Information Security Manager III
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Palma is an Information Security leader with 12 years of experience building security strategies that scale to protect millions of users, currently serving as Information Security Manager III at Nubank in São Paulo. He progressed through hands-on roles across fintech and foodtech—Nubank, iFood, C6 Bank, Rede—moving from QA and analyst positions into security management, which gives him a practical appreciation for secure development lifecycles and operational resilience. Lucas combines formal cybersecurity training from FGV with an incomplete master’s research background from Unicamp, enabling him to bridge academic rigor and product-focused execution. Known for designing seamless, fast-scaling controls, he favors pragmatic solutions that integrate into engineering workflows rather than obstruct them. An early translator and long-standing contributor to technical teams, he brings strong cross-functional communication skills and a track record of elevating security maturity in high-growth Brazilian tech companies.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Degree CyberSecurity, Executive Degree CyberSecurity at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloIncomplete Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Incomplete Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (6)
php4
laravel4
api3
rest-api3
nodejs3
rest3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mxball/suricato
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:190 commits, 81 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 7 months
lucaspalma/metricas
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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