About the Authors
Dr. Flávio Gomes da Silva Lisboa holds a PhD and a master's degree in social studies of science and technology from the Federal Technological University of Paraná. He holds a degree in computer science with a specialization in object-oriented programming and Java technology. Flávio is a certified software architect and engineer from Zend Technologies. He works as a technology analyst for the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service (serpro), the largest public information technology company in Latin America, building and maintaining applications for cross-platform services.
At Serpro, Flávio coordinated a corporate program to promote free and open-source software, worked on the review of systems architecture for the Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of Justice of Brazil, was head of the solution adaptation and mobility sector and architect of the ExpressoV3 project, and worked with support for the PHP programming language, behavior-oriented development, NoSQL databases, log analysis, and detection of bot attacks. He has experience in software development with emphasis for free and open-source software. FGSL is interested mainly in software architecture, area where he has experience in working with reuse, patterns, and frameworks.
He has been a speaker in PHP Conference Brazil for more than a decade and was honored by the event organization with a permanent room, alongside great members of the PHP Brazil community, as Elton Minetto, Guilherme Blanco, Ricardo Coelho, Rafael Dohms and Er Galvão. Flávio is also a professor at Centro Paula Souza, a network of colleges and technical schools, where he teaches systems analysis and design, web programming, and databases. Flávio is the author of the book Laminas Web Development, a complete guide about a PHP framework of the Linux Foundation. He also writes science fiction and in this segment, he has published the novels The One: the Solitude and the Harmony; Pandino, the Emperor: the Revenge of the One; and Freedom or Equality.