Adolfo Neto

Elixir and Erlang enthusiast. Associate Professor at UTFPR

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I, Adolfo Neto (full name: Adolfo Gustavo Serra Seca Neto), am an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Technology, Paraná. My research area is Software Engineering, and my overarching research objective is to assist developers in facilitating the sharing of knowledge and the acquisition of both scientific and practical expertise.

🆕 Latest paper: ADoTe: Approach to teaching and learning functional testing technique criteria supported by Testing Dojo. Vladimir Belinski, Adolfo G. Serra Seca Neto, Maria Claudia Emer. Journal of Software Engineering and Research Development (JSERD), 2025.

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I am the co-creator and co-host of the Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software podcast, the Elixir em Foco podcast and Emílias Podcast - Women in Computing, all of them in Portuguese. I am also the co-creator and co-host of the Hello, Erlang! podcast and the creator and host of the Professor Adolfo Neto podcast.

I am one of the co-chairs of the Education, Training, & Adoption Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.

I’m an enthusiast and act as an informal DevRel for the Elixir, Erlang, and Lean programming languages.

My now page.

News

I am serving as Social Media Co-Chair for ICSE 2026. ICSE is the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, the premier software engineering conference. It will be held April 12-18 2026 in Rio de Janeiro.

I am serving as Publicity Chair for CBSoft 2025. CBSoft is the Brazilian Conference on Software: Practice and Theory . The 16th edition of CBSoft will be held in person, from September 22th to 26th, 2025 in Recife, Pernambuco.

🇧🇷 Faço parte da organização do SE4FP 2025.

🇧🇷 Estou lecionando Computação 1 no primeiro semestre de 2025.

🇧🇷 Estou lecionando Metodologias Ágeis para Desenvolvimento de Software no primeiro semestre de 2025.

🇧🇷 Faço parte do comitê de programa do VIII Workshop-Escola de Informática Teórica - WEIT 2025

🇧🇷 Lecionei Introduction to Functional Programming na terceira fase de 2024.

🇧🇷 Organizei a Elixir Curitiba 2024.

🇧🇷 Fiz parte da organização do SBQS 2024.

🇧🇷 Fiz parte da organização do CBSOFT 2024.

🇧🇷 Fiz parte da equipe organizadora do Elixir Days 2024. Site do evento: https://www.elixirdays.com/. A edição 2025 já tem datas confirmadas no site.

Service

I am a member of the Education, Training, & Adoption Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.

I have organized Elixir Fortaleza Conf 2023.

I am a member of the “Emílias - Armação em Bits” program, coordinated by Maria Claudia Emer, whose goal is to attract and retain women in the field of computer science. There, I coordinate the Emílias Podcast - Women in Computing.

Talks

I gave a talk at Code BEAM America 2022: Comparing Elixir and Python when working with Simple Neural Networks - A. Neto & L. C. Tavano

I gave a talk at Code BEAM Lite A Coruña 2022: Aprendendo Erlang e Elixir através do Exercism e do Advent of Code.

I gave a talk at Code BEAM Europe 2022: Learning Erlang and Elixir through Exercism and Advent of Code.

Blogs and pages

Social networks and contact

I am on Twitter(X) as @adolfont.

I am at Mastodon: @adolfoneto@bertha.social (Portuguese) and @adolfont@genserver.social (English).

I am at BlueSky as @adolfont.bsky.social.

My emails are adolfo@utfpr.edu.br and adolfo.utfpr@gmail.com.

You can also send me a direct message on Twitter, Telegram or Instagram at adolfont.

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Publications

My latest publications can be found on his Google Scholar profile or at Recent Publications

Events

Past

Mailing address: Av. Sete de Setembro, 3165 - Rebouças, Curitiba - PR, 80230-901, Brazil. (DAINF, Bloco B, sala CB101bi)

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