Roní Gonçalves

Every child is curious enough to become a scientist or, as in my case, an engineer. I remember two hijinks from my childhood: (1) I have created a Buzz Wire-like toy with adhesive tape, a beep calculator, and wire; (2) I have disassembled my mother's old red mechanical alarm clock, then failed miserably to reassemble it. Maybe that's why I am an electrical, and not a mechanical, engineer :-) I had considered studying Portuguese before choosing Electrical Engineering. After graduating, I specialized myself in digital integrated circuits design. My experiences always had to do with computation: by hardware or by software, and honestly I do like to work with both of them. The enthusiasm for Portuguese has never died and appears in my work as an engineer: I strongly believe in the value of well-written documentation, and I always strive to write decently commented and readable code be it written in a programming language or in a hardware description language.