Yasodara
Córdova

My career doesn't fit a single lane — and that's the point. I've moved between civic tech and federal government, between Harvard research and W3C standards rooms, between World Bank country missions and engineering sprints. That range isn't a bug. It's the reason I can do things that specialists can't.

I started in the web itself: four years at W3C Brazil, where I chaired the Data on the Web Best Practices working group, coordinating 30+ people across 3 years and growing Latin American W3C participation by 60%. Before that, I co-founded Calango Hackerspace in Brasília, which is still running.

In 2017, I took the CEO role at Serenata de Amor — transforming a civic AI experiment into a B-Corp in under two years, securing funding, managing the acquisition, and putting AI accountability on Brazil's national agenda. Simultaneously I was a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center (2016–2018), and then a full scholarship student at Harvard Kennedy School (2018–2020), where I led research on YouTube's influence on Brazilian elections (in partnership with the New York Times), digital identity for indigenous citizens, and algorithmic fairness in credit scoring.

From Harvard I went to the World Bank — first as Agile & Civic Tech Fellow (2019–2020), delivering AI and fraud detection guidelines across five countries, then as Data & Digital Transformation Consultant (2020–2021), building digital infrastructure in response to COVID across developing countries.

At Unico IDtech, one of Latin America's main Identity-as-a-service companies, I was the Principal Privacy & Digital ID Researcher reporting to the CTO, transforming a biometrics company into a privacy-oriented enterprise: company-wide privacy strategy, PETs applications, threat modeling, and academic research partnerships.

Since 2026, at Dataprev, Brazil's federal social security IT agency, I've redirected national age verification tech from biometric surveillance to W3C standards-based verifiable credentials.