Cristóvão Rufino
Staff Software Engineer at CESAR
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolCristóvão Rufino is a Staff Software Engineer and Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering with eight years of experience building embedded software and firmware for IoT and medical applications. Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, he combines deep C and embedded Linux expertise with hands-on work in signal processing, UEFI/boot loaders, device drivers, and hardware–software integration. At CESAR he leads a small engineering team, plans features and experiments, and owns projects that require security-conscious, real-time design. His background as a mechatronics instructor and earlier roles in embedded systems give him strong roots in control theory and practical prototyping using microcontrollers. He is a free-software enthusiast who bridges academic research on control and autonomy with production-grade firmware for constrained devices. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous problem-solving across the stack—from low-level drivers to system architecture.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Engenharia da Computação, 8,53, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Engenharia da Computação, 8,53 at Universidade de PernambucoDoutorado, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Doutorado, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cristovaozr/vez-arch-open407z
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
cristovaozr/cristovaozr.github.io
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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