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I am a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Thrillworks, one of North America's most sought-after Digital Acceleration Partners and a leader in building digital experiences for clients in the healthcare, financial, gaming, and retail industries. With over 20 years of experience in industry and academia, I combine know-how with hands-on experience in software engineering, project management, development, and process improvement.

As a director, I lead and manage teams responsible for the product's solution, development, quality, releasement, and support. I also collaborate with the UNIRIO University Information Systems Research Group, co-advising research projects, publishing in scientific journals and conferences, and keeping up with state-of-the-art software engineering.

My mission is to bring software engineering innovations and best practices to the organization and deliver solutions that meet the needs and expectations of our clients while creating a continuous improvement environment and an inclusive and participative culture. I am passionate about software engineering and people leadership and eager to learn and mentor new skills and technologies.

2009 - Certified Scrum Master 

2024 – Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt 

2024 - Certified in Cybersecurity


2005 – SCJA – Sun Certified Associate for Java Platform, SE 


2013 – Accredited MPS-BR consultant/lead appraiser for software and service process initiatives/appraisals 


Skills

I led and provided consulting in software and service process improvement initiatives to over 50 companies of various sizes and sectors. I have a D. Sc. in Software Engineering, a Specialization in Project Management, and several software and service process improvement and quality certifications. I have experience in software project leadership/management under different development processes ranging from RUP and CMMI to Agile methodologies such as XP, Scrum, and SAFe (certified ScrumMaster since 2009). I understand the entire software development life cycle and have experience with maturity models and international standards like CMMI, MPS.BR, ISO/IEC 12207, SWEBOK, OWASP, and Six Sigma (Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt), among others.

My management style combines coach, visionary, transformational, and democratic. I am a goal and result-driven leader/manager. My decision-making process is open to opinions while based on quantitative data analysis. I enjoy staying hands-on on the technical side, discussing architecture patterns, design patterns, and technical roadmaps needed to improve the teams' ability to deliver results.

I have experience with REST APIs, microservice architecture, security (Certified in Cybersecurity) and cloud computing. Some tools I usually use are Atlassian Jira and Confluence, Notion, Google Apps, Slack, PowerBI, BambooHR, 15 Five, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Postman, SAST and DAST tools on Github/Gitlab, AWS, New Relic, and various programming languages and DBMSs.