Paulo Merson has 20 years of software development experience. He’s a visiting scientist with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, where he works with software architecture and SOA. Paulo also works in industry as a software architect. His speaking experience includes tutorials at SD Best Practices, Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World, JavaOne, SATURN conference, SBES and SBCARS, lectures to graduate students in different universities in the US, Europe and Brazil, and invited talks at different companies. Over 20+ years, he has actively participated in different roles in the development of software products for different domains and using different technologies. He is co-author of Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd edition. Paulo holds a BSc in Computer Science from University of Brasilia, and a Master of Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

In CBSoft 2011, Paulo Merson is the Industry Track Coordinator.