Cuducos

I worked on three different fronts: operations, corporate, and knowledge sharing. On operations, I contributed to projects in Africa and Asia: Mozambique (digital response to COVID-19 at the level of the Ministry of Health's National Health Institute), Nigeria (connecting the local civic tech communities and civil society engagement to empower monitoring and evaluation platforms for local sub-projects), Kazahstan (theory of change for a project focused on artificial intelligence and smart cities), Guinea (designing the implementation for an integrated system for citizen engagement at three different levels; national, sub-national, and community levels), and Niger (discussing the digital infrastructure and the strategy for the implementation of an early-warning system). Also, I was part of the Citizen Engagement Secretariat, joining the discussion with World Bank staff and other civil society organizations providing feedback for on-going operations in countries such as Tanzania, Iraq, and Malawi. On the corporate side, I delivered, with the Agile team, three workshops in Kazakhstan for the country and regional offices and members of the federal government. There and in the headquarters in DC, I also delivered clinics focused on agile methodologies, mainly Kaban and Scrum. Finally, on knowledge sharing, I co-organized and acted as a panelist in the panel "Government as a platform and Civil Society participation" at the Global Partnership for Social Accountability Forum (2019), contributed with posts to the Governance blog on civic tech and social media accounts, and co-authored a paper on fraud detection in the public sector.

As a developer I engaged in technical challenges like porting large amounts of data from NoSQL to graph architecture, updating internal Python libraries and contributing to the the team with code reviews and technical solutions to production bottlenecks.

Co-Founder of Operação Serenata de Amor, an open source project to empower social control of government expenses using data science. This project was incorporated as the Data Science for Civic Innovation Programme at Open Knowledge Foundation Brazil.

During my Ph.D., I was assigned to the Sociological Imagination module, an introductory course for first-year students in the Department of Sociology. Wright Mills's book inspired the syllabus and the course covered different topics in sociology, such as race and gender, labor, poverty, social classes, and consumption.

Project leader focused on in-depth social research and innovation processes. The position also involved project and team management, as well as communication with clients, (including corporations such as Panasonic, Itaú Bank, Renault, Google, Telefonica and Natura).

During my Master's, I was assigned to the Social Theory course, a compulsory course for the third semester of the Social Sciences degree. I taught and discussed the social and political theories and thoughts of George Simmel and Max Weber in these classes.

Development of digital material focused on user interface and new technologies.