Marcus Fontoura

Prior to joining Stone.co, Marcus Fontoura was a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, where he worked as the chief architect for Azure compute and lead the Azure efficiency team. In his previous roles at Microsoft, he worked on the production infrastructure for Bing. Prior to Microsoft, he was a Staff Research Scientist at Google (2011-2013) where he worked in the Search Infrastructure team. Before joining Google, Marcus was a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research (2005-2010) working on several projects in the area of computational advertising. Marcus worked as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (2000-2005) where he was awarded with an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, with the notation for development of a new generation of IBM search technology and its deployment on w3.ibm.com. Marcus finished his Ph.D. studies in 1999, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PUC-Rio), in a joint program with the Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo, Canada. His Ph.D. work was in the area of object-oriented design and software architecture. The main contributions from his Ph.D. thesis have been condensed in the book The UML Profile for Framework Architectures, published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. After finishing his Ph.D. Marcus was a post-doctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University for one year (1999-2000). Marcus is an ACM Distinguished Member and an IEEE Senior Member. He has more than 25 issued patents and more than 50 published papers.