I'm a problem solver at heart, driven by curiosity about how technology can tackle real-world challenges. My background is in computer science, with an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from CIn/UFPE (Brazil) and international experience as a visiting researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany).

I started my career as a software engineer at Indra. I then spent six years as a Lecturer (Associate Professor level) at IFAL — teaching algorithms, artificial intelligence, and software engineering to more than 400 students, founding the Laboratory of Data Engineering and Analysis (LEAD), and earning the Professor of the Year award three years in a row.