About

My name is Fernando Bevilacqua, I am the CTO and Head of Development at Optidata. Formely I was Adjunct Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS), teaching programming and researching human-computer interaction and AI. Before that I was a game developer. I am a passionate open-source contributor who mainly work with web technologies, AI, games and human-computer interaction.

⚒️ Work

I have hands-on experience on a variety of technologies and software projects, including game development, enterprise application development, and finally research/teaching work related to human-computer interaction, computer graphics and programming. I’ve been a team member, team leader and also project manager. I’ve used a dozen of programming languages, such as C, C++, PHP, Flash/AS3, Haxe, Java, Javascript, Typescript, R, Matlab and Python.

🎓 Education

In 2007 I obtained a BSc degree in Computer Science at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil. In 2009 I finished my masters in Computation focused on Computer Graphics, also at UFSM. Finally, in 2018 I received my PhD in Informatics at the University of Skövde, Sweden. I worked with human-computer interaction and computer vision at the InGame Lab.

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