Curriculum Vitae — Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, PhD
Federal University of Paraíba
Campus IV — Rio Tinto - PB, Brazil

e-mail: rodrigor@dcx.ufpb.br
web: rodrigor.com
LinkedIn: rodrigoreboucas
Instagram: @rodrigorcom / @ayty.ufpb
Lattes CV id: 4221517374410995
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Profile

Rodrigo Rebouças holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an Associate Professor and software engineering researcher in the Department of Exact Sciences at UFPB. He founded and leads both the Applied Software Engineering Lab (AYTY) and the Entrepreneurship Lab (NEST), running industry partnerships aimed at digital transformation and process optimisation. That work draws on artificial intelligence, data analytics, security, infrastructure, cloud and DevOps. Along the way he founded the startups Synapse Tech (IT training), Melon Tech (social networks) and Uaná Tech (IT consulting), and worked as a software architect at Dataprev and as a researcher at HP Labs in the United States. His interests span business process management, empirical software engineering, technical debt management, and the use of board games as educational tools.

Short bio

Rodrigo Rebouças is a professor and researcher at UFPB. He leads AYTY, an applied software engineering lab, where he runs projects in partnership with companies across artificial intelligence, process improvement, software development, data analytics and business intelligence, security, infrastructure, cloud and DevOps.

Current projects and appointments

2010 - present: Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraíba - Campus IV (Litoral Norte)

2025 - present: Head of the Department of Exact Sciences, UFPB - Campus IV

2025 - present: Board of INOVA-UFPB, full member

2026 - present: Project with Wastebr.
Scope: data analytics and business intelligence, process automation, artificial intelligence.

2025 - present: Project with Tríade Soluções (lead researcher).
Scope: business process innovation and improvement, software development, artificial intelligence.

2025 - present: Project with Portomar (lead researcher).
Scope: business process innovation and improvement, artificial intelligence, security and software development.

2025 - present: Project with Cabe Mais (lead researcher).
Scope: process innovation and improvement, software development management, and student training.

2024 - present: Project with Viva Móveis (lead researcher).
Scope: technology innovation management, software development, artificial intelligence, student training, and customer service and management solutions.

2018 - present: Project with Phoebus Tecnologia (lead researcher).
Scope: training, business process management, OKR-based management, process analysis and improvement, corporate events, competency management and technical debt management.

2012 - present: Head of AYTY — applied software engineering lab

Professional experience

2010 - present: Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraíba - Campus IV (Litoral Norte)

  • 2025 - present — Head of the Department of Exact Sciences, UFPB - Campus IV
  • 2025 - present — Board of INOVA-UFPB, full member
  • 2017 - 2020 — PhD candidate, PPGSC / UFRN (RN, Brazil)
  • 2016 - 2017 — Programme Director, BSc in Information Systems, UFPB - Campus IV
  • 2011 - 2015 — Head of the Department of Exact Sciences, UFPB - Campus IV
  • 2010 - 2011 — Deputy Head of the Department of Exact Sciences, UFPB - Campus IV

2024 - 2025: Project with CODATA (lead researcher).
Scope: business process management, analysis, modelling, training and software development.

2022 - 2023: Producer and host of the podcast engenharia.software

2022 - 2024: Project with Service Net (lead researcher).
Scope: software development management and student training.

2022 - 2024: Project with ESIG Software (lead researcher).
Scope: software development management and student training.

2018 - 2019: Researcher, research collaboration on business-driven technical debt, in partnership with Conductor.

2014 - 2015: Consultant / Senior Business Analyst, process management project at the Ombudsman’s Office of the State of Paraíba, Brazil

2012 - 2013: Senior Business Analyst, Funetec-PB / SIM Project / João Pessoa City Council

2009 - 2010: Software Architect, Dataprev, João Pessoa - PB

2008 - 2010: Founder / Director, Melon Tech, João Pessoa - PB

2008 - 2008: Lecturer, Centro Universitário de João Pessoa - UNIPê, João Pessoa - PB

2007 - 2007: Visiting Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto - CA - USA

2005 - 2008: Founder / Director / Instructor, Synapse Tech Consultoria em Software LTDA, Campina Grande - PB

2009 - 2010: Programme Director / Lecturer, iDez Faculdades, João Pessoa - PB

2008 - 2009: Lecturer, Facisa, Campina Grande - PB

2005 - 2008: Lecturer, MBA in Information Systems - UNIPê, João Pessoa - PB

2003 - 2007: Lecturer, Faculdades Integradas de Patos, Patos - PB

Publications

2025

  • Silva, R., Silva, F., Marques, D., Almeida, R., Farias, I., & Santos, W. (2025). Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industry Case Study. In Proceedings of the 20th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI’2025), Lisbon, Portugal.
  • K. Borowa, R. R. de Almeida and M. Wiese, Debiasing Architectural Decision-Making: An Experiment With Students and Practitioners, in 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Odense, Denmark, 2025, pp. 210-220, doi: 10.1109/ICSA65012.2025.00029.
  • Wiese, M., Heinrichs, A., Rusieshvilli, N., Almeida, R. R., & Borowa, K. (2025). The TechDebt Game – Enabling Discussions about Technical Debt. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt 2025), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

2023

  • R. R. De Almeida, C. Treude and U. Kulesza, “What’s behind tight deadlines? Business causes of technical debt,” 2023 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Melbourne, Australia, 2023, pp. 25-30, doi: 10.1109/CHASE58964.2023.00011.

2022

  • SILVA, Filipe Tabosa da; ALMEIDA, Rodrigo Rebouças de; SANTOS, Wylliams Barbosa. Priorização de Dívidas Técnicas Orientada a Negócios com Tracy-TD: Estudo de caso na empresa COMEIA. In: TRILHA DA INDÚSTRIA - CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE SOFTWARE: TEORIA E PRÁTICA (CBSOFT), 13., 2022, Uberlândia/MG.
  • F. T. Da Silva, E. O. S. De Souza, R. R. De Almeida and W. B. Santos, “Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: A Replication Study,” 2022 17th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Madrid, Spain, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820390.

2021

  • R. R. de Almeida, R. do Nascimento Ribeiro, C. Treude and U. Kulesza, “Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study,” 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), Madrid, Spain, 2021, pp. 74-83, doi: 10.1109/TechDebt52882.2021.00017.

2019

  • R. Rebouças de Almeida, C. Treude and U. Kulesza, “Tracy: A Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization Framework,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Cleveland, OH, USA, 2019, pp. 181-185, doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2019.00028.

2018

  • R. Rebouças de Almeida, U. Kulesza, C. Treude, D. Cavalcanti Feitosa and A. Higino Guedes Lima, “Aligning Technical Debt Prioritization with Business Objectives: A Multiple-Case Study,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Madrid, Spain, 2018, pp. 655-664, doi: 10.1109/ICSME.2018.00075.

2008

  • J. Sauve, R. Santos, R. Reboucas, A. Moura and C. Bartolini, “Change Priority Determination in IT Service Management Based on Risk Exposure,” in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 178-187, September 2008, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2009.031105.

2007

  • Jacques P. Sauvé, Rodrigo A. Santos, Rodrigo R. Almeida, and J. Antão B. Moura.
    1. On the risk exposure and priority determination of changes in IT service management. In Proceedings of the Distributed systems: operations and management 18th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Managing virtualization of networks and services (DSOM’07). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 147–158.
  • R. Reboucas, J. Sauve, A. Moura, C. Bartolini and D. Trastour, “A decision support tool to optimize scheduling of IT changes,” 2007 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Munich, Germany, 2007, pp. 343-352, doi: 10.1109/INM.2007.374799.
  • Jacques Sauvé, Rodrigo Rebouças, Antão Moura, Claudio Bartolini, Abdel Boulmakoul, and David Trastour, Business-driven decision support for change management: planning and scheduling of changes. In Proceedings of the 17th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Distributed Systems: operations and management (DSOM’06). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/11907466_15

2005

  • ALMEIDA, Rodrigo Rebouças de. Uma arquitetura de software para arranjos produtivos locais [A software architecture for local productive clusters].
    1. 104 pp. MSc dissertation in Computer Science, Federal University of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, 2005. Available at:

    http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/1586

2002

  • Almeida, R. R., Baptista, C. S., Garcia, F. P., Schiel, U., & Alencar, V. S. (2002). EASYFORM: A Framework to Make Web-Based Systems Easy. In P. Isaías (Ed.), Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2002 (pp. 332–339). Lisbon, Portugal: IADIS Press. ISBN: 972-9027-53-6.
  • MIRANDA, R. A. V.; PAULISTA, C. S.; ALMEIDA, R. R.; CATÃO, B.; PAZINATTO, E. IGIS: um Framework para Sistemas de Informações Geográficas em N-camadas usando um SGDB objeto-relacional. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE GEOINFORMÁTICA, 4. (GEOINFO), 2002, Caxambu. Belo Horizonte: Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), 2002. pp. 155-162. ISBN 85-88442-43-4. ISSN 2179-4847. http://urlib.net/ibi/8JMKD3MGP8W/3GTJBEH

2001

  • Sauvé, J. P., Coutinho, A. A. T. R., Almeida, R. R., Souza, A. D. D., & Duarte, A. (2001). WebManager: Transforming a Network Management Application Into a Component-Based Framework. In J. M. S. Nogueira & A. A. F. Loureiro (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2001) (pp. 230–242). UFMG.

Graduate supervision (MSc)

Completed

Student: Filipe Tabosa da Silva
Title: Technical Debt: Priorização baseada em critérios de médio e longo prazo
Defended: 27 February 2024
Programme: Graduate Programme in Computer Engineering – University of Pernambuco (UPE)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Wylliams Barbosa Santos

Student: Adalberto Pereira Neris
Title: Orientações para disseminação dos achados de revisões sistemáticas para profissionais da engenharia de software
Started: 27/09/2022
Defended: 09/08/2024
Programme: Graduate Programme in Informatics-CP – Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Katia Romero Felizardo

In progress

Student: Rafael Santos Silva
Area: Technical Debt Management
Started: March 2024
Programme: Graduate Programme in Computer Engineering – University of Pernambuco (UPE)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Wylliams Barbosa Santos

Student: Emerson Ruan Dantas Silva
Area: Technical Debt Management
Started: 26/02/2024
Programme: Graduate Programme in Informatics-CP – Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Katia Romero Felizardo

Student: Joana Darck Soares da Silva
Area: Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering
Started: 26/02/2024
Programme: Graduate Programme in Informatics-CP – Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Katia Romero Felizardo

Education

PhD in Computer Science, UFRN, 2022
Natal - RN - Brazil
Focus: business-driven technical debt management, software maintainability, development processes

MSc in Computer Science, UFCG, 2005
Campina Grande - PB - Brazil
Focus: software architecture, business organisation, local productive clusters, software development

BSc in Computer Science, UFCG, 2002
Campina Grande - PB - Brazil
Emphasis: network management, software development, development processes, frameworks and components

Awards and recognition

  • Honoured Professor, Federal University of Paraíba, 2016
  • Best Paper Award – TechDebt 2019
  • Best Paper Award – DSOM 2007
  • CAPES MSc Scholarship, Brazil (March 2003 to February 2005)
  • PCT Motorola Technological Initiation Scholarship, Brazil (June 2000 to September 2001)
  • PIBIC/CNPq Scholarship, Brazil (September 1999 to May 2000)