Award-winning early career professor of Computer Science/Software Engineering. PhD in Informatics, MSc & BS in Computer Science. Invited Professor of the Computing and Informatics Department (FCI) at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (UPM). Former Professor at UNICESUSC/Brazil and at UFMS/Brazil, Assistant Professor at SDU/Denmark, Postdoc at QUEENSU/Canada and UFMG/Brazil, and Visiting Scholar at NCL/United Kingdom. Former Software Engineering Intern at Petrobras (a Fortune Global 500 company), at SUS (the largest government-run healthcare system), and at GOVBR (a large public management company in Brazil).