Paulo Sousa
IT Business Analyst / PMI-certified Agile Product Owner and academic lecturer — thirty-plus years across government IT leadership in Brazil and post-secondary teaching, with a doctorate in quantum computing, eleven quantum courses in 2025, and a 2026 Excellence in Teaching Award at Algonquin College.
Profile & career at a glance [1]
A career built on the same pattern repeated for two decades: run the technology, then teach it — often in the same year.
Paulo Benicio Melo de Sousa is a Brazilian IT Business Analyst / PMI Certified professional with a decade of experience as an Agile Product Owner — leading workshops, coordinating multi-stakeholder teams, and developing policy and governance frameworks. He is also an experienced academic lecturer and advisor, with 20+ years at post-secondary institutions, skilled in managing interdisciplinary, technology-focused programs and stakeholder engagement.
His career splits into two parallel threads: leading technology teams inside Brazil's public sector (culminating in managing government-wide systems for the State of Ceará's Finance Secretariat, teams of up to 50) and teaching computer science most evenings for nearly two decades. Since August 2019 he has taught full-time at Algonquin College in Ottawa — designing courses and labs in Compilers, BI & Data Analytics, Advanced Scripting, and Programming, and facilitating hybrid learning with Brightspace, Zoom, and MS Teams. In 2025 he completed an intensive return to his doctoral subject — quantum computing — including the QuCode 21-Days Challenge series on DEV Community.
Drag or click along the chart to jump to a year — or click any bar, date badge, or course-table year elsewhere on the page — to see what Paulo was doing at any point since 1991. Day jobs and evening teaching very often overlapped.
Twenty years of running the systems [2]
Reverse-chronological, from full-time professor in Ottawa back to a Brazilian university network-administration job in 1993.
Nearly every evening, a classroom [3]
While running government IT by day, Paulo taught undergraduate and master's courses most evenings from 2000 to 2019 — often at two or three institutions at once.
Figures below are from Paulo's Lattes / CNPq record, Brazil's national research curriculum database.
Three degrees, one running theme [4]
The doctorate is where quantum computing enters the story — nearly two decades before it became the subject of a 2025 refresher course marathon.
Credentials, old and very new [5]
Three still-active PMI certifications anchor a long tail of continuing education — most strikingly, eleven separate quantum computing courses completed in 2025 alone.
Eleven courses in a single year — the same subject as the 2008 doctorate, revisited with a decade and a half of hardware progress behind it.
Mostly Brazil-based project-management and business-intelligence training, plus Algonquin College teaching-compliance modules.
| Year | Course | Provider | Duration |
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Three recognitions across a decade [6]
One from the Brazilian public sector for a flagship government system, and two from Algonquin College for teaching excellence (2025 and 2026).
Selected publications [7]
From quantum algorithms and multiplayer quantum games (2005–2008) through applied computational work and a 2026 QAOA-based flight-route optimisation paper.
Portuguese native, working English, growing French [8]
CEFR levels below (A1/A2 = basic user, B1/B2 = independent user, C1/C2 = proficient user).
General communication in English is focused on technical and management contexts; there's also basic understanding of French and Spanish, especially where they intersect with computing and science.
What's actually in the toolbox [9]
Technical range built up across research computing, enterprise government systems, and the classroom — plus the digital and organisational skills that keep all of it moving.
Programming
Tools
Also familiar with
Self-assessed digital skills (Europass framework):
Organisational / managerial
Self-discipline and organisation for team development; able to generate and analyse trends and challenges; comfortable with project-management and collaboration tooling.
Job-related
Technical skill and continuous development, focused on staying current with technology, management practice, and enterprise solutions.
Communication
General communication in English for technical and management contexts, with basic French/Spanish understanding for computing and science topics.
QuCode and ongoing notes [W]
Public writing that bridges the doctoral quantum work with practical learning — including a 21-day coding challenge on DEV Community.
QuCode — 21 Days Challenge
Day-by-day exploration of quantum vs classical mechanics, superposition, algorithms and code exercises — with Python examples on GitHub.
Google Site
Public summary site with photo, About Me positioning as Agile Product Owner and academic lecturer, and links to Lattes / Scholar.
Academic production
Full research curriculum and citation profile via CNPq Lattes and Google Scholar.
Web references mentioned or related [10]
Primary professional profiles, institutional sites, credentials, and selected publication venues from the curriculum.
Professional profiles
Institutions
Certifications & PMI
Awards & recent work
2026 Excellence in Teaching Award
IrisPathQ (QAOA flight-route optimisation) — Algonquin College, 2026
References available upon request (Brazil, Canada, USA, England, Portugal)