Summary
Ricardo Andrade is an archivist and information scientist with nine years of professional experience who combines stewardship of cultural memory with hands-on software development in PHP, Go and Flutter. As Chefe do Escritório Regional Nordeste at Arquivo Nacional and a researcher at UFBA’s Digital Humanities Lab, he bridges archival practice, academic research and digital tooling to modernize access to records. He leads the CRIDI research group and edits the popular Portal do Arquivista, a community hub he built to support students and professionals across Brazil. His publications and books span information representation and digital culture, and his background as an IT specialist-turned-archivist gives him a rare technical-literary perspective on managing born-digital collections.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Science, Ciência da Informação, Master's degree, Information Science, Ciência da Informação at Universidade Federal da Bahia
English, Romanian, Portuguese