Short bio

Ph.D. in Computer Science, and a Associate Professor at the Instituto Federal de Alagoas (IFAL), Brazil. Kenji holds his Ph.D. degree in 2022 at the Centro de Informática (CIn) at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, researching about the use of Grey Literature in Software Engineering.

In 2012 he holds a master’s degree in Computer Science at the Centro de Informática (CIn) (CIn) at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). In 2009 he holds a bachelor’s degree in System Information at the Faculdade de Alagoas (FAL) and in 2006 he concludes a computer technician course at the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Alagoas (CEFET-AL).

Since the beginning of his career, Kenji always loved to work with software engineering methods, mainly in relation to Agile methods, such as XP, TDD, and Scrum. Fernando started worked with computer programming using Delphi in 2004. After, he worked with PHP, Java web, and .Net.

Kenji worked as a consultant in Recife, Brazil, employing practices and techniques of software process improvement to help software companies to achieve the maturity level of CMMi and MPS.Br. He always used Agile methods as support to achieve those goals, adapting the Scrum according to the particularity of each company.

Research interests

• Empirical Software Engineering
• Grey Literature
• Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering
• Agile methods
• Software quality

Contact me

• fernando.kenji[at]ifal.edu.br