Waldir R. Pires Jr is a highly skilled and experienced software engineering consultant, educator, and web technology expert with more than two decades of experience. Throughout his career, Pires has worked with a wide range of technologies, platforms, standards, and development processes, both in Brazil and abroad, which has positioned him as a valuable professional in the technology field. Pires holds a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and he is a LaTu-Sensu graduate from Universidade Estadual do Amazonas.

Pires' specialties include software engineering and architecture, object-oriented analysis, design and implementation, requirements gathering, and quality assurance. Furthermore, his expertise extends to web technologies, such as RESTful API-oriented architecture and development, microservices, Swagger, cloud engineering, NoSQL, web services, and SOA/SaaS. Pires is also versed in agile/scrum/lean software development methodologies, education/teaching in IT/Computer Science/Information Systems, and relational/non-relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

When it comes to Pires' interests, he enjoys exploring algorithms and data structures, crunching machine learning technologies and algorithms, microservices API management, architecture, and integration, and leading/mentoring teams. Pires' involvement with blockchain/crypto-currency technologies also stands out as one of his key interests.

Pires' experience is extensive, having worked as a senior software engineering consultant at Waltech Software Ltd., software architect at Sensedia, senior SW development specialist at FITec, former professor at PUC Minas, and assistant professor at Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, among others. Pires' resume showcases an impressive list of organizations both as a consultant and educator, highlighting his unique skill set and versatility in the technology industry.