Summary
Cleber Amaral is a multidisciplinary engineer and educator with over 20 years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, full-stack development, and technical course coordination in telecommunications. He combines academic research in multi-agent AI (PhD work, including a visiting researcher stint at University of Otago) with practical contributions to open-source multi-agent platforms (Jason, JaCaMo-rest, JaCaMo-web) and EV charger network software. As Coordinator of Technician Courses at IFSC he focuses on student retention and applied projects, while teaching programming, integrated hardware/software projects, and structured cabling. His technical stack spans C/C++ firmware for ARM, PIC, 8051 and AVR, backend PHP/Python/Java, React frontends, SQL databases, MQTT/WebSockets communication, and GCP-driven CI/CD. He has led R&D and product teams through ISO9001 processes, product roadmaps and international partnerships, blending product management with deep engineering. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he is a rare blend of academic AI researcher, open-source contributor, and pragmatic embedded-to-cloud systems builder.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at IFSC - Instituto Federal de Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina
Technician, Post technician in microcontrolled systems, Technician, Post technician in microcontrolled systems at Escola Técnica Federal de Santa Catarina - ETFSC
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Systems at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Santa Catarina
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Research Doctorate, Artificial Intelligence, Research Doctorate, Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
English, Spanish, Portuguese