Ricardo Britto is an adjunct professor at UFPI and a researcher at the Department of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Britto received a PhD in Software Engineering from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden (2017). Between 2009 and 2013, Britto worked as researcher and project manager at Federal University of Piaui-Brazil. His research interests include large-scale agile software development, global software engineering, search-based software engineering and software process improvement