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André Furtado

Occupation:	Software Engineer / Architect
Age:	27
Location:	Brazil
Interests:
Juliana running traveling software development beer with friends.
Newbie Microsoft employee (WinSE team). Has a PhD research on putting game development (XNA) together with software engineering (DSL Tools). Holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science for the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Addicted to software competitions, being the world champion of Imagine Cup Japan 2005 (Office Designer) and Imagine Cup Korea 2007 (Embedded Development), winner of the first Brazilian XNA Challenge and of the Imagine Cup 2005 Brazilian Finals (Software Design), second place in Imagine Cup 2007 Brazilian finals (Software Design) and in the Brazilian finals of the Intel + UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Challenge 2005. Has worked as a technical/business consultant for the Partec-MyTV startup. Microsoft Student Partner Lead until 2007, Sharp Shooters .NET user group lead (first .NET group in Brazil), Certified MSF Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Professional, Certified IBM-DB2 Specialist, Sun Certified Java Programmer. Long-term life goal: to find a nice long-term life goal.

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Added a blog entry "Introducing Microsoft Blueprints"

Some of the foundations of the Microsoft Software Factories Initiative are, among others, domain-specific languages and guidance automation. This last foundation refers to automating common tasks du

November 03 8:04 AM

Added a blog entry "SharpLudus presentation at VSX DevCon 2008 / Apresentação do SharpLudus no VSX DevCon 2008"

As some of the Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Conference (VSX DevCon) 2008 screencasts are getting published, here you have the (quick) presentation of my SharpLudus PhD project, which happen

November 02 8:13 AM

Added a blog entry "FeatureModelDSL v1.0 released / Lançada a FeatureModelDSL v1.0"

For those interested in creating feature model diagrams, I'm pleased to announce the first release of my implementation of the FeatureModelDSL: http://www.codeplex.com/FeatureModelDSL. The origina

October 31 2:51 AM

Added a blog entry "Redmond MSP Summit 2008: do you keep building your professional skill set? / Encontro de MSPs 2008 em Redmond: você mantém a evolução do seu conjunto de habilidades profissionais?"

A couple of weeks ago, the first Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Summit took place here in Redmond, in which some of the most talented (and luckiest) student partners of the world had a chance to ge

October 25 4:33 AM

Added a blog entry "The Oslo Project / O Projeto Oslo"

For those who are not aware about Microsoft's Olso Project yet, check it here and here. Oslo is supposed to be Microsoft's new platform for model-driven development, based on executable (live) model

October 18 8:48 PM

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