Summary
Cristiano Garcia is an experienced Informatics professor and hands-on software engineer with over a decade of practice building PHP-based web services, data integrations, and database systems. Currently teaching courses from Big Data and AI to Web Programming, he combines academic research (ongoing PhD in Informatics/Data Science) with practical systems work developed at UFLA, where his integrations reduced a legacy data-processing job from two days to two hours. He has a strong backend pedigree—Laravel, CodeIgniter, MySQL, SOAP/REST—and a history of shipping institutional-scale services (e.g., the MinhaUFLA ecosystem handling thousands of requests per hour). Cristiano’s background spans international study and internships in Hungary and industry exposure at Bosch, giving him fluency in Portuguese and advanced English and an ability to navigate cross-cultural technical projects. Colleagues value him for bridging teaching, administration, and production engineering, and for research-driven implementations such as a citation extractor that reached a 91% F1 score.
11 years of coding experience