I currently work at Async Open Source, a company that provides development and consulting services focused on on Free Software. I helped found Async in early 1999.

Since 2004, I've been actively involved in Launchpad development, and in 2005 I became application manager for the project, together with Steve Alexander. Together we lead a team of over 20 people working on building a platform for open source development and collaboration.

In 2003, I obtained an MSc degree from USP São Carlos, where I defended my dissertation on defining a Process Model for Free Software Projects. My MSc project is described in two long documents (in portuguese). I graduated in Computer Engineering from UFSCar in 1997.

A number of years ago (just as I had decided I wanted nothing to do with computers) I discovered Free Software and Unix, and I've been working on both ever since then. I've contributed to dozens of free software projects, and I am currently an active developer for Bugzilla, PyGTK, ZODB, Kiwi and IndexedCatalog. I've worked with Web development and Usability, additionally, in the past years. I'm an advocate of simple interface design, and my work is an attempt to implement it.

My main extra-professional interests are outdoor sports, travelling, language and vain philosophy. I've raced mountain bikes for a couple of years now, and in the past years I've been racing adventure races in Brazil as well. I've competed in a number of national-level events, including the multi-day EMA 2000 and 2001 and tens of shorter events.

Getting in touch with me

BTW, I'm plugging BuscaML as a good alternative for people that are using MercadoLivre to look for and buy stuff -- it's run by a good friend of mine (good friends are hard to find), and hey, it even has a Firefox extension.