Guilherme Lacerda
Engineering & Science Operations Lead
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGuilherme Lacerda is an engineering and academia hybrid: a PhD-trained software engineer and mentor with 14+ years of experience leading engineering teams, consulting on agile transformations, and teaching software engineering and agile practices across Brazilian universities. He has headed engineering organizations (Pix Force, Umbler) and served as CTO of an open-source software firm for nearly a decade, driving dozens of free-software projects under Agile, Lean and XP principles. A pioneer of agile adoption in Brazil since 2001, he is a Certified Scrum Master/Professional, frequent international speaker, and active mentor at Wildtech. Guilherme blends hands-on practices like TDD, refactoring and clean code with strategic coaching and course design, recently teaching software engineering for data science at UFRGS. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, he combines rigorous research credentials with practical operational leadership—often translating academic insights into concrete process improvements for product teams.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Software Engineering Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Software Engineering Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulBSc Informática, BSc Informática at Universidade da Região da Campanha - URCAMP
Github Skills (19)
tencent10
saas10
terraform9
aws9
iaas9
azure9
paas8
kubernetes8
devops8
graph7
visual-analytics7
visualization6
data-visualization5
teste5
architecture4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
guilhermeslacerda/CleanArchitectureExample
Oct 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
architecturedockermicroservicesclean
guilhermeslacerda/drtools-site
Oct 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
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