Postdoctoral fellow in the Software Engineering Laboratory (LabSoft) at UFMG. He holds a PhD degree in Informatics from PUC-Rio, a master’s degree in Computer Science from UFMG, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UFMS. He served as postdoctoral fellow in the Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (SAIL) of Queen’s University at Kingston. He was a Professor of Software Engineering at FACOM/UFMS and a visiting researcher in Data Analysis at Newcastle University. He served as a software engineering intern at SUS-MS via LEDES/UFMS, GOVBR via LES/PUC-Rio, and Petrobras via Tecgraf Institute/PUC-Rio.