Christina Von Flach
Professor at Universidade Federal da Bahia
Bahia, Brazil
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Top SchoolChristina Von Flach is a seasoned computer scientist and professor at the Federal University of Bahia, with a career in academia and software development stretching back to the 1980s and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from PUC-Rio. She led the creation and early leadership of UFBA’s graduate computer science program, served as the first Director of Graduate Studies, and took a sabbatical at the University of Namur, evidencing strong international collaboration. As head of the SEED.br research group, her work bridges technical and social dimensions of open-source ecosystems, software engineering education, and research software sustainability. Christina has played prominent roles in Brazil’s software engineering community, including co-chairing the SBES research-track PC, and she champions diversity, inclusion and Open Science in her research agenda. An academic who began as a hands-on software developer, she blends deep institutional memory with active, contemporary research leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
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Github Skills (35)
python9
elixir8
translation8
jekyll6
user-manual6
bottom6
data-structures5
elixir-programming-language5
projeto5
solace4
java4
user-guide4
bottom-up4
screeps3
sustainability3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
seed-br/seed-br.github.io
Sep 2021 - May 2026
Website
Contributions:3 reviews, 40 PRs, 111 pushes in 4 years 9 months
christinaflach/free-software-patterns
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
software-patternsjavapatterns
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