# Davi Costa

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davicosta

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Aven
Jan 2023 – Present | Florida, United States
Building software so people can have access to capital in a cheaper and more efficient manner.

### Software Engineering Manager - Safety @ Uber
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Management of the Safety Controls product team consisting of up to 12 people, both backend and mobile engineers. Main attributions included:
- Building safety features to reduce incidents and improve safety perception on the platform
- Stakeholder management 
- Long and short term roadmap planning
- Improving team efficiency
- Team growth and career building

### Senior Software Engineer - Safety @ Uber
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | São Paulo Area, Brazil
As Uber opened a Tech Center for software development in Brazil, I switched to the Safety Team, first Tech Center charter, to help bootstrap the office by bringing Uber domain knowledge and company culture. My main areas of focus are:
- Tech Lead a team to deliver Safety related products
- Hire and onboard engineers
- Help define processes and facilitate communication between the HQ in San Francisco and Sao Paulo

### Senior Software Engineer - Financial Products @ Uber
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
In the Tech Lead role for the Financial Products team at Uber, my job consists in leveraging the team to design and deliver efficient systems to fulfill business partnerships with financial institutions and the development of the credits platform for the Uber Cash product. On top of that, I'm constantly interviewing for the company, providing mentorship to team members and influencing the long term road map and engineering excellence goals.

### Software Engineer - Financial Products @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer - Search @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed and implemented systems to measure and improve the quality of Content Search on Facebook.

### Software Engineer Intern - Search @ Facebook
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software development for the website and social network www.facebook.com in the Search team. Worked in the Graph Search product with ranking algorithms, quality evaluation metrics, index generation and base infrastructure to support data retrieval in a scalable distributed system.

### Software Engineering Intern - Ads API @ Facebook
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Greater Seattle Area
Software development for the website and social network www.facebook.com in the Advertisement Engineering Team. Worked with the API for the large advertisers, targeting clusters, distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop) and machine learning algorithms/libraries.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Odysci
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Software development for the website www.odysci.com. Worked with data mining, crawlers, ranking and classification methods.


## Education
### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Communication Systems Engineering
Télécom Paris

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering
Universidade Estadual de Campinas


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davi-costa-23b39621

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Source: https://flows.cv/davicosta
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davicosta/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-10