Edgard Lima

CESAR

2017–present · Research and engineering

Research Scientist, Cybersecurity · 2025–present

• Research power side-channel analysis of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) implementations.
• Develop communication security for UAVs using post-quantum cryptography.

Senior Staff Engineer · 2018–2025

• Dissected communication protocol stacks and developed protocol parsers and analyzers.
• Worked across the Bluetooth physical layer, HCI, L2CAP, SDP, RFCOMM, ATT and GATT, as well as selected parts of IEEE 802.11.

macOS and Bluetooth development · 2017–2018

Developed macOS software using Objective-C, Swift, Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy.

Accenture · Senior Consultant, Innovation Team

2017–2018

Developed proofs of concept and prototypes and presented them to clients. Work spanned C++, Qt, Linux, embedded devices, multimedia and computer vision.

Nova Roma College · Professor

2017–2018

Taught Operating Systems (2017) and Theory of Computation (2018) in the Computer Science program.

FITec · Consultant, Architect, Team Lead and Software Engineer

2008–2016

• Designed and implemented a portable J1939-21/81 library in C for CMSIS-based microcontrollers, later ported to embedded Linux and deployed in thousands of ATMs and related equipment.
• Brought up embedded Linux on custom AT91SAM9G45 hardware, working with U-Boot, Buildroot, kernel and driver development, and peripheral integration.
• Designed and developed a bus electronic ticketing system using C++, Boost, D-Bus, JSON, NMEA and Qt.
• Led development of firmware, image processing, GUI and library components for a bank check scanner using C, C++ and GTK.
• Provided technical and team leadership, applying Scrum and test-driven development across projects.

Nokia Institute of Technology · Software Developer

2005–2008

• Credited co-author of GStreamer’s v4l2src video-capture element; contributed fixes and plugin ports from GStreamer 0.8 to 0.10.
• Consulted at Nokia Research Center in Helsinki on GStreamer as a multimedia framework for the N900 smartphone.
• Developed Windows and macOS video conversion components for Nokia Internet Tablet Converter using DirectShow and QuickTime.

CIn–UFPE · Team Leader, Software Architect and Engineer

2004

• Recruited and coached a team developing Waytec touchscreen software for Linux and Windows, with approximately 80% shared C++ code.
• Designed the architecture, developed a Windows WDM driver and supported Linux driver, library and GUI development.

CESAR · Team Leader, Software Architect and Engineer

2002–2004

Led a seven-person team developing BREW games for LGE CDMA phones. Contributed to Motorola TDMA phone software, implemented critical game components and developed a secure wallet application.

Earlier software development

Mobile · 2000–2001. Built Palm and Pocket PC software, including a financial application, database APIs and desktop-to-device data exchange.

Wiser · 1999–2000. Developed C-based web billing software and automated FreeBSD backups.

Master of Science in Applied Informatics

Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) · 2015–2017

Research in algorithms and distributed systems. Dissertation: Distributed van Emde Boas tree (2017).

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) · 1997–2002