Summary
Heraldo Almeida is an associate professor and seasoned engineer with over three decades of experience delivering hardware and software solutions across electrical power, oil & gas, telecom, manufacturing, defense and finance. He holds a D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from UFRJ and combines deep academic expertise with current cloud and ML credentials—Google Professional Data Engineer, Cloud Architect and Machine Learning Engineer. A polyglot coder comfortable in Python, Java, C/C++ and SQL, he has industrial roots at IBM and leading consultancies and today teaches and researches applied AI, data engineering and software quality at UFRJ. Recently he has bridged research and practice on Blockchain, digital currencies, algorithmic trading and generative AI, applying techniques from computer vision to time-series forecasting and recommender systems. Colleagues value his rare mix of high-performance control-systems theory and hands-on production experience deploying ML and cloud-native solutions.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
D. Sc., Electrical Engineering / Control Systems and High-Performance Computing, D. Sc., Electrical Engineering / Control Systems and High-Performance Computing at D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (UFRJ,2003)
B.Sc., Electronics Engineer, B.Sc., Electronics Engineer at Electronics Engineer (UFRJ,1988)
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering / Control Systems, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering / Control Systems at M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (UFRJ,1991)
English, Portuguese