Erick Melo
Secretário Geral De Informática at Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar Oficial
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolErick Melo is a PhD-trained technology leader and CIO at UFSCar with 14+ years driving strategic IT transformation in one of Brazil’s largest universities. He blends deep engineering experience—having contributed to Brazil’s digital TV middleware Ginga and led development of a new institution-wide ERP—with executive skills in public-sector governance, procurement and resilient service delivery. Erick engineered the university’s shift from an OpenStack private cloud to AWS and containerized operations on Kubernetes, while strengthening cybersecurity posture with NGFWs and Linux hardening. Comfortable in hands-on roles (Java, Python, PostgreSQL performance tuning) yet fluent in board-level strategy, he navigates complex legacy integrations and high-pressure institutional change. Notably, his career spans both R&D leadership in digital TV and large-scale productionization of cloud-native academic systems, enabling measurable modernization in higher education. He is driven by a mission to use technology to make academia more efficient and equitable.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar Oficial
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Github Skills (27)
grails9
groovy8
web-application7
snmp7
laravel7
php7
network6
monitoring6
grails-plugin5
network-monitoring5
moodle5
application-framework5
spring-security4
java4
system-monitoring4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wikiwaleed2/ginga-peer-to-peer
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
lince/tvanytime-webtool
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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