Summary
Joao Ferreira is a seasoned software solutions architect with over three decades of IT experience and more than 13 years focused on architecture roles, currently shaping software strategy at CEPEL in Rio de Janeiro. He combines deep hands-on expertise in integration platforms (webMethods and custom frameworks), J2EE/Jakarta EE stacks, and modern data engineering (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Spark) with practical security know-how in PKI, electronic signatures and JVM tuning. A Certified Scrum Master and COBIT-aware professional with an MBA and a Master's in Computer Science (Data Science), he blends agile delivery practices with formal governance and risk assessment. Joao has a track record of defining development methodologies, CI/CD toolchains and deployment architectures across heterogeneous environments including WebLogic, AD SSO and embedded LabVIEW systems. He brings uncommon breadth—from legacy groupware and Lotus Domino solutions to deep-learning time-series models (LSTM/GRU/CNN) for analytics—making him effective at bridging operational constraints and advanced data science. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex integration and non-functional requirements into pragmatic, secure, and maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Certified SCRUM Master Agile Management, Certified SCRUM Master Agile Management at Knowledge21
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Bacharel em Fisica Física, Bacharel em Fisica Física at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Spanish, Portuguese